Scoop vs. Coop — What's the Difference?

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

A cage or pen in which poultry are kept.

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.

Confine in a small space

A ladle; a dipper.

Put or keep (poultry) in a cage or pen

An implement for bailing water from a boat.

A small enclosure or cage, as for poultry or small animals.

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

A cramped or uncomfortably confined space.

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

(Slang) A jail or prison.

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

To confine or keep (poultry, for example) in a coop.

A scooping movement or action

To confine in a small or cramped space. Often used with up

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

A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.

Current information or details

A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.

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

A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.

A hollow area; a cavity.

(obsolete) A barrel or cask for holding liquids.

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

A cart with sides and ends made from boards, enabling it to carry manure, etc.

To take up and often reposition with a scoop

A cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril.

To hollow out by digging.

(Scotland) A small heap.

To pick up, gather, or collect swiftly and smoothly

Alternative form of co-op.

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

(transitive) To keep in a coop.

Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.

(transitive) To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.

The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.

To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election.

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

Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.

A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.

To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.

(automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.

A barrel or cask for liquor.

The digging attachment on a front-end loader.

An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.

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

A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.

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

To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; - usually followed by up, sometimes by in.

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

To work upon in the manner of a cooper.

A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.

A farm building for housing poultry

(Scotland) The peak of a cap.

An enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals are kept

(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;