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Transfer vs Scoop - What's the difference?

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Transfer is a related term of scoop.


As nouns the difference between transfer and scoop

is that transfer is transfer while scoop is any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.

As a verb scoop is

to lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.

transfer

Verb

(transferr)
  • To move or pass from one place, person or thing to another.
  • to transfer''' the laws of one country to another; to '''transfer suspicion
  • To convey the impression of (something) from one surface to another.
  • to transfer drawings or engravings to a lithographic stone
  • To be or become transferred.
  • (legal) To arrange for something to belong to or be officially controlled by somebody else.
  • The title to land is transferred by deed.

    Synonyms

    * carry over, move, onpass * (convey impression of from one surface to another) copy, transpose * (to be or become transferred)

    Derived terms

    * transferee * transferor

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of conveying or removing something from one place, person or thing to another.
  • (countable) An instance of conveying or removing from one place, person or thing to another; a transferal.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=An internet of airborne things, date=2012-12-01, volume=405, issue=8813, page=3 (Technology Quarterly), magazine= citation
  • , passage=A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer . A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.}}
  • (countable) A design conveyed by contact from one surface to another; a heat transfer.
  • A soldier removed from one troop, or body of troops, and placed in another.
  • (medicine) A pathological process by which a unilateral morbid condition on being abolished on one side of the body makes its appearance in the corresponding region upon the other side.
  • Synonyms

    * (act) transferal, transference * (instance) transferal

    Usage notes

    * In the United Kingdom education system the noun is used to define a move from one school to another, for example from primary school to secondary school. Contrast with transition which is used to define any move within or between schools, for example, a move from one year group to the next.

    scoop

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia scoop) (en noun)
  • Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
  • She kept a scoop in the dog food.
  • The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
  • Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.
    I'll have one scoop of chocolate ice-cream.
  • 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.
  • He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate.
  • (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
  • Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * (tool) scooper * (amount held by a scoop) scoopful

    Derived 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 * scoopy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
  • He used both hands to scoop water and splash it on his face.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=December 27 , author=Mike Henson , title=Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Their first clear opportunity duly came courtesy of a mistake from Russell Martin, who was hustled off the ball by Bale, but the midfielder scooped his finish well over the top as he bore down on the Norwich goal.}}
  • To learn something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
  • The paper across town scooped them on the City Hall scandal.
  • 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.
  • He was caught scooping in the local park.

    Derived terms

    * scooped * scooper * scoop in * scooping * scoop out * scoop the kitty * scoop the pool * scoop up

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