different between scoop vs exhume

English

Etymology

From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skupp?, *skuppij?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”)..

Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German sch?pe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel.

Pronunciation

• enPR: sko?op, IPA^(key): /sku?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Noun

scoop (plural scoops)

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. (automotive) 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 place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
   • 1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay

     Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.

8. A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
9. A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
10. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
11. (Scotland) The peak of a cap.
12. (pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.

Synonyms

• (tool): scooper
• (amount held by a scoop): scoopful

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

scoop (third-person singular simple present scoops, present participle scooping, simple past and past participle scooped)

1. (transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
2. (transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.

3. (transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).

4. (music, often with "up") To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
5. (slang) To pick (someone) up

Derived terms

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References

Anagrams

• Co-ops, Coops, POCOs, co-ops, coops

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English scoop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /skup/

Noun

scoop m (plural scoops)

1. scoop (news learned and reported before anyone else)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English scoop. Compare scoprire (“uncover”), scoperta (“discovery”).

Noun

scoop m (invariable)

1. scoop (news learned and reported before anyone else)

Anagrams

• scopo, scopò

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin exhum?, from Latin ex- + hum? (“to to bury”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ks.?(h)ju?m/, /??.?zju?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?.s(j)um/, /???z(j)um/

Verb

exhume (third-person singular simple present exhumes, present participle exhuming, simple past and past participle exhumed)

1. (transitive) To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter.

   The archeologist exhumed artifacts from the ground with a shovel.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To uncover; to bring to light.
   • 2009, S. E. Wilmer, Writing and Rewriting National Theatre Histories (page 47)

     Memorial was permeated by a sense of mission, a moral imperative to exhume the truth and display it to the eyes of its compatriots, whatever feelings of shame, outrage, denial, or shock might ensue.

Synonyms

• dig up, disinter, unbury, unearth

Antonyms

• bury, inhume, inter

Derived terms

• exhumation
• exhumer

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.zym/

Verb

exhume

1. first-person singular present indicative of exhumer
2. third-person singular present indicative of exhumer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of exhumer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of exhumer
5. second-person singular imperative of exhumer

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e???ume/, [e????u.me]

Verb

exhume

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of exhumar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of exhumar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of exhumar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of exhumar.