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What is the noun for scoops?

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scoop
  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.
  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 literally scoop up patients.
  10. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
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  12. Examples:
    1. “I do this by tilting the pan to the side and using a scoop to ladle the sauce into a bowl.”
      “Top the tart with a scoop of blackberry tea sorbet and butternut squash drips.”
      “The station's recent news scoop on the controversy meant that it had the only television interview with the judge.”
scooper
  1. A person who scoops.
  2. Something that scoops.
  3. The avocet, a bird that scoops up the mud to obtain food.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “I used the scooper to dig out a perfect scoop of ice cream from the tub.”
      “Once upon a time, long before I answered God's call to be a designer of books, I spent a year as a scooper of ice cream.”
      “Looks like a lot of fun, as long as you're not on the pooper scooper squad.”
scoopwheel
  1. A wheel, driven by wind or steam, having a series of scoops that are used to raise water
scoopula
  1. A curved spatula used as a scoop in chemistry laboratories.
scooping
scoopful
  1. The quantity in a scoop.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I poured some stew into a clay bowl, put a baked potato on my plate along with a long slab of pork and a scoopful of salad.”
      “The parents said they were using a powdered formula, adding one scoopful to a bottle and filling it with water to the 8-oz level.”
      “What effect has the fire upon a scoopful of coal when it is placed in the fire-box?”
scoopwheels
  1. plural of scoopwheel
scoopings
scoopsful
scoopulas
  1. plural of scoopula
scoopfuls
scoopers
scoops
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