Scoop vs. Shovel — What's the Difference?

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

A shovel is a tool for digging, lifting, and moving bulk materials, such as soil, coal, gravel, snow, sand, or ore. Most shovels are hand tools consisting of a broad blade fixed to a medium-length handle.

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 tool with a handle and a broad scoop or blade for digging and moving material, such as dirt or snow.

A ladle; a dipper.

A large mechanical device or vehicle for heavy digging or excavation.

An implement for bailing water from a boat.

The amount that a shovel can hold; a shovelful

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

To move or remove with a shovel.

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

To make with a shovel

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

To convey or throw in a rough or hasty way, as if with a shovel

A scooping movement or action

To clear or excavate with or as if with a shovel

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

To dig or work with a shovel.

Current information or details

A hand tool with a handle, used for moving portions of material such as earth, snow, and grain from one place to another, with some forms also used for digging. Not to be confused with a spade, which is designed solely for small-scale digging and incidental tasks such as chopping of small roots.

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

A mechanical part of an excavator with a similar function.

A hollow area; a cavity.

(US) A spade.

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

To move materials with a shovel.

To take up and often reposition with a scoop

To move with a shoveling motion.

To hollow out by digging.

An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances.

To pick up, gather, or collect swiftly and smoothly

To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.

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

To gather up as with a shovel.

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

A hand tool for lifting loose material; consists of a curved container or scoop and a handle

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

The quantity a shovel can hold

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

A fire iron consisting of a small shovel used to scoop coals or ashes in a fireplace

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

A machine for excavating

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

Dig with or as if with a shovel;

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;