scooping
Hollowing with spoon
Scooping is the act of lifting or gathering with a curved motion, as with a spoon or cupped hands: She was scooping ice cream into bowls.
In journalism, scooping means beating competitors to a story: The local paper kept scooping the national outlets.
To be scooping someone up is to gather them quickly, often affectionately: He was scooping the kids into his arms.
Serving with large spoon
- spooningCuddling while lying aligned
- dishingSpreading talk informally
- skimmingPassing lightly over
- bailingEscaping or emptying water
dredging · cupping · hollowing · gouging · shoveling · sweeping · lifting · transferring
Removing earth below
- hollowingMaking concave inside
- gougingExploitative overpricing
- burrowingDigging to create shelter
- dredgingExtracting underwater sediment
trenching · carving · channeling · tunneling · unearthing · removing · clearing
Gathering items over time
- pickingAct of selecting
- harvestingGathering mature crops
- gleaningCollecting leftover grain
- nettingInterlaced open fabric
corralling · rounding up · capturing · fetching · grabbing · acquiring · amassing
Limited to one group
- breakingComing apart suddenly
- insiderOne with confidential access
- leakEscape through a breach
- exposéInvestigative journalism piece
revelation · beat · story · byline · tipoff · headline · investigative · whistleblower
ladling
Serving with large spoon
bailing · dredging · cupping · hollowing · gouging · shoveling · sweeping · lifting · transferring · portioning
digging
Removing earth below
dredging · trenching · carving · channeling · tunneling · unearthing · removing · clearing
collecting
Gathering items over time
- pickingAct of selecting
- harvestingGathering mature crops
- gleaningCollecting leftover grain
netting · corralling · rounding up · capturing · fetching · grabbing · acquiring · amassing
exclusive
Limited to one group
exposé · revelation · beat · story · byline · tipoff · headline · investigative · whistleblower · newsbreak
cup
Small drinking container
- tablespoonCulinary volume unit
- teaspoonSmall spoon or measure
- portionDivided share given
serving · dollop · helping · scant · heaping · leveled · rounded · measuring · quantity · calibrated
- melon prepslicing, dicing, cubing, balling, seeding
- excavationdig, excavation, excavating, excavator, digging
- hand actionsgrabbing, grasping, gripping, holding, pinching
- litter boxlitter box, litter, cat litter, litter pan, litter tray
- Lacrosselacrosse stick, lacrosse ball, goal, goalie, attack
- ball skillsdribbling, crossover, ball control, stepover, throwing
scoopingdropping
Letting something fall
releasing · dumping · depositing · spilling · scattering
- scooping upGathering by lifting beneath
- scooping water
scoop, scoops, scooped, scooper, scoopers, scoop up, ice cream scoop