1. n. Any cup- or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
She kept a scoop in the dog food.
2. n. The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.
I'll have one scoop of chocolate ice-cream.
3. n. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
4. n. A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate.
5. n. (automotive) An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
6. n. The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
7. n. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
8. n. A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
9. n. A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to literally scoop up patients.
10. n. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
11. v. To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
He used both hands to scoop water and splash it on his face.
12. v. To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
The paper across town scooped them on the City Hall scandal.
13. v. (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.
He was caught scooping in the local park.
14. v. (slang) To pick (someone) up
You have a car. Can you come and scoop me?
spade
1. n. Pelle, bêche.
To call a spade a spade. Appeler un chat un chat.
2. n. (Cartes) Pique.
The four suits in a deck of cards are clubs, diamonds, hearts and spades. (trèfle, carreau, cœur, pique)
I have a spade. It is the three of spades.
spade
1. n. A garden tool with a handle and a flat blade for digging. Not to be confused with a shovel which is used for moving earth or other materials.
2. n. A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.
I've got only one spade in my hand.
3. n. (offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
4. n. A cutting instrument used in flensing a whale.
5. v. To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting.
6. n. A hart or stag three years old.
7. n. A castrated man or animal.
shovel
1. n. Pelle.
2. v. Pelleter, peller.
shovel
1. n. 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
2. n. (US) A spade.
3. v. To move materials with a shovel.
The workers were shovelling gravel and tarmac into the pothole in the road.
After the blizzard, we shoveled the driveway for the next two days.
I don't mind shoveling, but using a pickaxe hurts my back terribly.
4. v. (transitive, figuratively) To move with a shoveling motion.
Already late for work, I shovelled breakfast into my mouth as fast as possible.
fluke
1. n. Coup de chance.
A fluke is a lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated.
Un coup de chance est une occurrence chanceuse ou improbable, avec le sous-entendu que ladite occurrence ne pourrait pas se répéter.
The first goal was just a fluke.
Le premier but était juste un coup de chance.
2. n. Chacune des deux moitiés de la nageoire caudale d'un cétacé (baleine, dauphin).
A fluke is either of the two lobes of a whale's or similar creature's tail.
The dolphin had an open wound on the left fluke of its tail where the propeller had injured it.
3. n. (Marine) Crochet (d'une ancre).
A fluke is any of the triangular blades at the end of an anchor, designed to catch the ground.
The fluke of the anchor was wedged between two outcroppings of rock and could not be dislodged.
4. n. Douve.
A fluke is a trematode; a parasitic flatworm of the trematoda class, related to the tapeworm.
The man had become infected with flukes after eating a meal of raw fish.
fluke
1. n. A lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated.
The first goal was just a fluke.
2. v. To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance.
I fluked a pass in the multiple-choice exam.
3. v. (snooker) To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way.
He fluked the other red into the middle pocket, despite the double kiss.
4. n. A flounder.
5. n. A trematode; a parasitic flatworm of the Trematoda class, related to the tapeworm.
The man had become infected with flukes after eating a meal of raw fish.
6. n. Either of the two lobes of a whale's or similar creature's tail.
The dolphin had an open wound on the left fluke of its tail where the propeller had injured it.
7. n. (nautical) Any of the triangular blades at the end of an anchor, designed to catch the ground.
The fluke of the anchor was wedged between two outcroppings of rock and could not be dislodged.
8. n. A metal hook on the head of certain staff weapons (such as a bill), made in various forms depending on function, whether used for grappling or to penetrate armour when swung at an opponent.
The polearm had a wide, sharpened fluke attached to the central point.
9. n. In general, a winglike formation on a central piece.
After casting the bronze statue, we filed down the flukes and spurs from the molding process.
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