What is "scoop"

Beat \Beat\, n.

1. One that beats, or surpasses, another or others; as, the beat of him. [Colloq.]

2. The act of one that beats a person or thing; as:

   1. (Newspaper Cant) The act of obtaining and publishing a piece of news by a newspaper before its competitors; also, the news itself; -- also called a scoop or exclusive.

      It's a beat on the whole country.
      --Scribner's Mag.

   2. (Hunting) The act of scouring, or ranging over, a tract of land to rouse or drive out game; also, those so engaged, collectively. ``Driven out in the course of a beat.''
      --Encyc. of Sport.

      Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last moment, when the beat is close to them.
      --Encyc. of Sport.

   3. (Fencing) A smart tap on the adversary's blade.

mid-14c., "to bail out," from scoop (n.) and from Low German scheppen "to draw water," from Proto-Germanic *skuppon (cognates: Old Saxon skeppian, Dutch scheppen, Old High German scaphan, German schöpfen "to scoop, ladle out"), from PIE root *skeubh- (cognates: Old English sceofl "shovel," Old Saxon skufla; see shove (v.)). In the journalistic sense from 1884. Related: Scooped; scooping.

early 14c., "utensil for bailing out," from Middle Dutch schope "bucket for bailing water," from West Germanic *skopo (cognates: Middle Low German schope "ladle"), from Proto-Germanic *skop-, from PIE *(s)kep- "to cut, to scrape, to hack" (see scabies). Also from Middle Dutch schoepe "a scoop, shovel" (Dutch schop "a spade," related to German Schüppe "a shovel," also "a spade at cards").\n

\nMeaning "action of scooping" is from 1742; that of "amount in a scoop" is from 1832. Sense of "a big haul, as if in a scoop net" is from 1893. The journalistic sense of "news published before a rival" is first recorded 1874, American English, from earlier commercial slang verbal sense of "appropriate so as to exclude competitors" (c.1850).

n. 1 Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material. 2 The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop. 3 The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling. 4 A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else. 5 (context automotive English) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine. 6 The digging attachment on a front-end loader. 7 A covered opening in an automobile's hood which allows cold air to enter the area beneath the hood. 8 A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow. 9 A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies. 10 A special spinal board used by EMS staff that divides laterally to literally scoop up patients. 11 A sweep; a stroke; a swoop. vb. (context transitive English) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.

1. n. the quantity a scoop will hold [syn: scoopful]

2. a hollow concave shape made by removing something [syn: pocket]

3. a news report that is reported first by one news organization; "he got a scoop on the bribery of city officials" [syn: exclusive]

4. street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate [syn: soap, max, liquid ecstasy, grievous bodily harm, goop, Georgia home boy, easy lay]

5. the shovel or bucket of dredge or backhoe [syn: scoop shovel]

6. a large ladle; "he used a scoop to serve the ice cream"

1. v. take out or up with or as if with a scoop; "scoop the sugar out of the container" [syn: scoop out, lift out, scoop up, take up]

2. get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" [syn: outdo, outflank, trump, best]

Scoop, Scoops or The Scoop may refer to:

Scoop is a 1938 novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, a satire of sensationalist journalism and foreign correspondents.

Scoop is a compilation album by Pete Townshend containing 25 demos of various released and unreleased songs by The Who, as well as demos of entirely new material. The album has liner notes written by Townshend.

In stage lighting, an ellipsoidal reflector floodlight (sometimes known by the acronym ERF which is often pronounced "erf"), better known as a scoop, is a large, simple lighting fixture with a dome-like reflector, large high-wattage lamp and no lens. It consists almost entirely of a lamp in the center of a big curved metal (or plastic lined with reflective foil) dome that acts as a reflector. The result is a wide, soft-edged pool of light good for general lighting. However, since scoop lights do not have a mechanism for cutting down the size of their beam, they are rarely used for more specific lighting needs.

Many theaters use scoop lights for worklights, rehearsals, non-performance times, and certain performance times. Scoops can be used to mimic the effect of a striplight to illuminate a cyclorama. They are easy to set up and take down, are relatively inexpensive, typically have long lamp life. When used as worklights, scoop lights frequently don't require the use of the light board to operate.

Scoop lights are also used for flooding a stage with downlight, as this requires the least amount of control of the beam. However, fresnel lanterns are more frequently used for this task. Most scoops use a PS52 mogul screw (E39) incandescent lamp.

Scoop is a 2006 American-British romantic comedy/ murder mystery written and directed by Woody Allen and starring Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Ian McShane and Allen himself. The film was released in the United States by Focus Features on July 28, 2006.

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Scoop.co.nz is a New Zealand internet news site run by Scoop Media Limited, part of the Scoop Media Cartel.

Scoop is a 1987 TV film directed by Gavin Millar, adapted by William Boyd from the 1938 satirical novel Scoop by Evelyn Waugh. It was produced by Sue Birtwistle with executive producers Nick Elliott and Patrick Garland. Original music was made by Stanley Myers. The story is about a reporter sent to the fictional African state of Ishmaelia by accident.

Scoop is the name of several fictional characters from the various Transformers universes.

Scoop is a quarterly magazine published in Perth, Western Australia for current members of the Australian Journalists Association. It is the most recent journal/annual that the long lasting branch of the Western Australian District or Branch has produced.

It is currently published by the Australian Journalists Association section in Western Australia of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance union.

In common usage, a scoop is any specialized spoon used to serve food.

In the technical terms used by the food service industry and in the retail and wholesale food utensil industries, there is a clear distinction between two types of scoop: the disher, which is used to serve ice cream, measure a portion e.g. cookie dough, or to make melon balls; and the scoop which is used to measure or to transfer an unspecified amount of a bulk dry foodstuff such as rice, flour, or sugar.

Dishers are usually hemispherical like an ice cream scoop, while measuring scoops are usually cylindrical, and transfer scoops are usually shovel-shaped. Some dishers have mechanical levers which help expel the disher's contents. Some higher-end ice cream scoops have a thermally conductive liquid in the handle to help keep the ice cream from freezing to the scoop's metal. Traditionally dishers are sized by the number of scoops per quart but may also be sized by ounces, the diameter of the bowl, or the number of tablespoons they hold.

Scoop Number
(Scoops per Quart)

Fluid Ounces
(fl. oz.)

Spoon Equivalent
(Tea=tsp.
Table=TBS.)

Metric
(millilitres)

Diameter
(inches)

6

5.3

158

8

4.0

118

10

3.2

95

12

2.7

80

2 3/8

16

2.0

59

20

1.6

47

24

1.3

38

30

1.1

33

40

0.8

24

1 5/8

60

0.53

16

70

0.46

14

1 1/4

100

0.32

9

Image:Small_transfer_scoop.JPG|Transfer scoop Cream Scoop.jpg|Ice cream scoop with heat conductive fluid disher scoop Image:CaramelCorn.jpg|Large aluminum scoop, here with caramel corn

SCOOP (Simple Concurrent Object Oriented Programming) is a concurrency model designed for the Eiffel programming language, conceived by Eiffel's creator and designer, Bertrand Meyer.

SCOOP defines a way for an object oriented program to be written without the concept of threads, locks, or other typical multiprogramming methods. This allows the compiler or runtime environment to optimize the amount of concurrency as well as eliminate typical design flaws such as deadlock.

The model was first designed in the early 1990s and published in 1993 in the Communications of the ACM An updated version was described in chapter 30 of the book Object-Oriented Software Construction. A prototype implementation was developed in 1995 by Eiffel Software. An article by Compton and Walker provides an overview of SCOOP and describes another early implementation. Nienaltowski, Arslan and Meyer have published a description of the model as of 2003. Work on SCOOP proceeded at the Chair of Software Engineering at ETH Zurich. SCOOP became available as a standard part of EiffelStudio early in 2011.

In journalism, a scoop or exclusive is an item of news reported by one journalist or news organization before others, and of exceptional originality, importance, surprise, excitement, or secrecy.

Scoops are important and likely to interest or concern many people. A scoop is typically a new story, or a new aspect to an existing or breaking news story. Generally the story is unexpected, or surprising, or formerly secret, so the scoop typically comes from an exclusive source. Events witnessed by many people generally cannot become scoops, (e.g., a natural disaster, or the announcement at a press conference). However, exclusive news content is not always a scoop, as it may not provide the requisite importance or excitement. A scoop may be also defined retrospectively; a story may come to be known as a scoop because of a historical change in perspective of a particular event. Due to their secret nature, scandals are a prime source of scoops (e.g., the Watergate scandal by Washington Post journalists Woodward and Bernstein).

Scoops are part of journalistic lore, and generally confer prestige on the journalist or news organization.

Scoop was a Belgian dance group. Originally it was a solo project by producer Daniel Maze. After the first release “Wings Of Love” in 1998 Fiocco producer Jan Vervloet joined Scoop. The production was signed in Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, UK, Norway, Finland and Spain. “Wings Of Love” contains a sample of John Foxx ( Ultravox) 1980 first solo single “Underpass” and was remixed by Tiesto in 1999. The second single and most famous was the theme song for the 99’ Love Parade in Berlin. “Drop It” became a #1 hit in the club charts in Belgium and the Netherlands. Afterwards the single topped the mainstream charts in the same countries. To promote the release a video clip was created with images from the 98’ Love Parade mixed with the Scoop logo.

Just like the previous release the third song “Rock The House” ( 2000) was based on the same concept: a simple catchy tune and a powerful quote. For “Drop It” that was “"we're gonna do a song that you've never heard before..”. “Rock The House” only featured the title words and was charted in the top 10 in Belgium [#9) and the Netherlands (#4). The song was written by Daniel Maze and Jan Vervloet and was remixed by DJ Peter Luts of dance act Lasgo. Again the music video only contained a dancing crowd at an indoor house festival mixed with the Scoop logo. All the videos were directed by Peter Van Eyndt who directed many Belgian and Dutch artists like Kate Ryan, Milk Inc, Clouseau, Zornik and Krezip.

Scoop is a children's TV series first broadcast by the BBC from January 2009 to present and is written by Julian Dutton, Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain, Martin Hughes & Rory Clark. It is currently on its third season.

The show stars Shaun Williamson as Digby Digworth, an ambitious but inept journalist for a fictional local newspaper, The Pilbury Post. Each episode centres on Digby's failure to get a scoop, ending up causing mayhem and disaster instead. In each of these he is accompanied by Hacker, a dog. The show also stars Mark Benton as the newspaper's short-tempered editor, Max de Lacey and there are guest appearances by popular British TV actors such as Lesley Joseph and Mina Anwar who plays Selena Sharp, reporter for a rival paper. In one episode the writer J. K. Rowling is parodied as a novelist character called T. K. Towling, while in another Jeremy Clarkson (ex top gear presenter) is satirised with the character Clark Jameson.

The episodes are 28 minutes in length and were originally stripped (broadcast every day) across weekdays on BBC One at 3.25 pm between 5 January and 23 January.

Hacker has appeared presenting the CBBC channel since 7 July 2009 with Iain Stirling, a comedian from Edinburgh. In series one of Scoop he was operated by Andy Heath but when he began presenting CBBC he was operated by Phil Fletcher. He has been puppeteered since presenting CBBC by Phil Fletcher.

A second season began airing in September 2010 and a third began airing a new episode every day from 25 July. This was also Hacker's first appearance on CBBC.

The nickname Scoop or Scoops may refer to:

• Scoops Carry (1915–1970), American jazz alto saxophonist and clarinetist
• Scoops Carey (baseball) (1870–1916), Major League Baseball first baseman
• Dick Gordon (sports writer) (1911–2008), American sports journalist
• Henry M. Jackson (1912–1983), American senator
• Scoop Jackson (writer) (born 1963), American sports journalist and cultural critic
• Antonio Jardine (born 1988), American basketball player
• Scoop Lewry (1919–1992), Canadian politician and reporter
• Wes Nisker (born 1942), author, radio commentator, comedian and Buddhist meditation instructor
• Art Scharein (1905–1969), American Major League Baseball third baseman
• Scoop Stanisic (born 1963), Serbian former American soccer goalkeeper and coach
• Jim Veltman (born 1966), Canadian retired lacrosse player
• Frank "Scoop" Vessels (1952–2010), American off-road truck racer
• Brian Windhorst (born 1978), American sportswriter