Ladle vs. Scoop

A long-handled spoon with a deep bowl for serving liquids.

A shovellike utensil, usually having a deep curved dish and a short handle

To lift out or serve with a long-handled spoon.

A thick-handled cuplike utensil for dispensing balls of ice cream or other semisoft food, often having a sweeping band in the cup that is levered by the thumb to free the contents.

A deep-bowled spoon with a long, usually curved, handle.

A ladle; a dipper.

(metallurgy) A container used in a foundry to transport and pour out molten metal.

An implement for bailing water from a boat.

The float of a mill wheel; a ladle board.

A narrow, spoon-shaped instrument for surgical extraction in cavities or cysts.

An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.

A bucket or shovel of a dredge, backhoe, or other digging machine.

A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.

The amount that any of these utensils, implements, or containers can hold

(transitive) To pour or serve something with a ladle.

A scooping movement or action

A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.

An exclusive news story acquired by luck or initiative before a competitor.

A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.

Current information or details

The float of a mill wheel; - called also ladle board.

A rounded, usually low-cut neckline, as on a blouse or dress. Also called scoop neck, scoop neckline.

An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.

A hollow area; a cavity.

To take up and convey in a ladle; to dip with, or as with, a ladle; as, to ladle out soup; to ladle oatmeal into a kettle.

An opening, as on the body of a motor vehicle, by which a fluid is directed inward

a spoon-shaped vessel with a long handle; used to transfer liquids

To take up and often reposition with a scoop

put (a liquid) into a container by means of a ladle;

To hollow out by digging.

remove with or as if with a ladle;

To pick up, gather, or collect swiftly and smoothly

(Informal) To top or outmaneuver (a competitor) in acquiring and publishing an important news story.

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 place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.

A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.

A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.

A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

(Scotland) The peak of a cap.

(pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.

(surfing) The raised end of a surfboard.

A kind of floodlight with a reflector.

(transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.

(transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.

(transitive) To report on 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 pick (someone) up

A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.

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.

A spoon-shaped instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.

A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.

A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shoveling.

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.

an act of reporting (news, research results) before a rival; also called a beat.

news or information; as, what's the scoop on John's divorce?.

To take out or up with, a scoop; to lade out.

To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.

To make hollow, as a scoop or dish; to excavate; to dig out; to form by digging or excavation.

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.

the quantity a scoop will hold

a hollow concave shape made by removing something

a news report that is reported first by one news organization;

street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate

the shovel or bucket of dredge or backhoe

a large ladle;

take out or up with or as if with a scoop;

get the better of;