Scoop vs Stoop - What's the difference?
scoop | stoop |
Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
(automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
A covered opening in an automobile's hood which allows cold air to enter the area beneath the hood.
A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
* J. R. Drake
A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
A special spinal board used by EMS staff that divides laterally to literally scoop up patients.
A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
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To learn something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
To consume an alcoholic beverage.
The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
* 1856 James Fenimore Cooper, Satanstoe or The Littlepage Manuscripts: A Tale of the Colony (London, 1856)
* 1905 Carpentry and Building , vol. 27 (January 1905), NY: David Williams Company,
The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
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To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward.
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To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
* 1882 [1875], Thomas Bewick, James Reiveley, William Harvey, The Parlour Menagerie , 4th ed.,
To cause to incline downward; to slant.
To cause to submit; to prostrate.
* Chapman
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
* Dryden
* Addison
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
* Goldsmith
* Francis Bacon
To degrade.
A stooping (ie. bent, see the "Verb" section above) position of the body
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An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
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In transitive terms the difference between scoop and stoop
is that scoop is to learn something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else) while stoop is to cause to submit; to prostrate.scoop
English
Noun
(wikipedia scoop) (en noun)- She kept a scoop in the dog food.
- Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.
- I'll have one scoop of chocolate ice-cream.
- He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate.
- Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.
Synonyms
* (tool) scooper * (amount held by a scoop) scoopfulDerived terms
* apple-scoop * butter scoop * cheese-scoop * ice-cream scoop * poop scoop * scoop bonnet * scoop driver * scoopful * scoop neck * scoop neckline * scoop-net * scoop wheel * scoopyVerb
(en verb)- He used both hands to scoop water and splash it on his face.
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- The paper across town scooped them on the City Hall scandal.
- He was caught scooping in the local park.
Derived terms
* scooped * scooper * scoop in * scooping * scoop out * scoop the kitty * scoop the pool * scoop upAnagrams
* ----stoop
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Cognate with English "step".Noun
(en noun)page 110
- Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops , with seats, at its door.
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- ...the entrance being at the side of the house and reached by a low front stoop with four or five risers...
Synonyms
* (small porch) porch, verandah * (doorstep) step, doorstepEtymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare (steep).Verb
(en verb)- He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.
- Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes.
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- Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?
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- Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.
- to stoop a cask of liquor
- Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears / Are stooped by death; and many left alive.
- Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, / Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.
- These are arts, my prince, / In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome.
- She stoops to conquer.
- Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.
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Synonyms
(bend oneself forwards and downwards) * bend downDerived terms
* stoop and roopNoun
(en noun)- The old man walked with a stoop .
- Theo Walcott's final pass has often drawn criticism but there could be no complaint in the 11th minute when his perfect delivery to the far post only required a stoop and a nod of the head from Young to put England ahead.
- At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarry