Scoop

n.	1.	A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.
	2.	A deep shovel, or any similar implement for digging out and dipping or shoveling up anything; as, a flour scoop; the scoop of a dredging machine.
	3.	(Surg.) A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
	4.	A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow. Some had lain in the scoop of the rock. - J. R. Drake.
	5.	A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
	6.	The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.
	7.	a quantity sufficient to fill a scoop; - used especially for ice cream, dispensed with an ice cream scoop; as, an ice cream cone with two scoops.
	8.	an act of reporting (news, research results) before a rival; also called a beat.
	9.	news or information; as, what's the scoop on John's divorce?. Scoop net a kind of hand net, used in fishing; also, a net for sweeping the bottom of a river. Scoop wheel a wheel for raising water, having scoops or buckets attached to its circumference; a tympanum.
v. t.	1.	To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out. [imp. & p. p. Scooped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Scooping.] He scooped the water from the crystal flood. - Dryden.
	2.	To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.
	3.	To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation. Those carbuncles the Indians will scoop, so as to hold above a pint. - Arbuthnot.
	1.	to report a story first, before (a rival); to get a scoop, or a beat, on (a rival); - used commonly in the passive; as, we were scooped. Also used in certain situations in scientific research, when one scientist or team of scientists reports their results before another who is working on the same problem.

Noun	1.	scoop - the quantity a scoop will hold Synonyms: scoopful
	2.	scoop - a hollow concave shape made by removing something Synonyms: pocket
	3.	scoop - a news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials" Synonyms: exclusive
	4.	scoop - street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate Synonyms: easy lay, Georgia home boy, goop, grievous bodily harm, liquid ecstasy, max, soap
	5.	scoop - the shovel or bucket of dredge or backhoe Synonyms: scoop shovel
	6.	scoop - a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"
Verb	1.	scoop - take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar out of the container" Synonyms: lift out, scoop up, scoop out, take up
	2.	scoop - get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" Synonyms: best, outdo, outflank, trump

SCOOP - Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog. ["SCOOP, Structured Concurrent Object-Oriented Prolog", J. Vaucher et al, in ECOOP '88, S. Gjessing et al eds, LNCS 322, Springer 1988, pp.191-211].

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