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SCOOPED

Definition: SCOOPED

SCOOPED

Imperative & past participle

1. Of Scoop

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SCOOPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references)



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Crosswords: SCOOPED

English words defined with "SCOOPED": Croustadestuffed cabbage. (references)
Specialty definitions using "SCOOPED": SCOOPING-MACHINE TENDER, scraper tender, seat scooper, machineTRACER-BULLET-CHARGING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references)
Etymologies containing "SCOOPED": Scaphite. (references)

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Modern Usage: SCOOPED

DomainUsage

Screenplays

You'd love that, wouldn't you? Better hurry Gale, you wouldn't want to get scooped. (Scream 2; writing credit: Kevin Williamson)

Lyrics

I scooped up my son he tried to play my wit a ghetto pass ("Just A Baby Boy"; performing artist: Tyrese)

Movie/TV Titles

Scooped by Cupid (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: SCOOPED

DomainTitle

Books

  • Scooped! (reference)

  • Scooped!: Media Miss Real Story on Crime While Chasing Sex, Sleaze, and Celebrities [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: SCOOPED

Illustrations:
SCOOPED

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Photo Album: SCOOPED

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Sablefish put in live tank, scooped up, tagged, and sent back overboard.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Mrs. Jones, wife of tenant farmer, dropping tobacco plants in places scooped out for them. Near Farrington, Orange County, North Carolina.Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: SCOOPED

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

In his memory there was a hole, a black place, an abyss scooped out by four months of agony.

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

He pulled a little bag from under the counter, whipped it open and scooped some sugar into it, weighed the bag, and added a little more sugar.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: SCOOPED

"SCOOPED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past tense) -- approximately 74.89% of the time. "SCOOPED" is used about 231 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past tense)74.89%17323,656
Lexical Verb (past participle)22.08%5147,619
Adjective (general or positive)3.03%7133,076
                    Total100.00%231N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: SCOOPED

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "SCOOPED": scooped-neck, scooped-out.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: SCOOPED

Language Translations for "SCOOPED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

挖出 (Scooping). (various references)

   

German

  

schöpfte, geschaufelt (shovelled), geschöpft (ladled). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vájt (scooped out), odvas (dry-rotten, scooped out), kivájt (scooped out), belül üres (scooped out), üreges (cavernous, concave, cored, hollow, pitted, scooped out). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

푸ëŠ" (Loosed). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oopedscay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: SCOOPED

Derivations

Words ending with "SCOOPED": outscooped. (additional references)


Misspellings

"SCOOPED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: escobedo, Scolopax, Scoope, Scopex, scoupe, Scroope, souped. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "SCOOPED"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "SCOOPED" (pronounced skuw"pt)
4-k uw" p tcooped, recouped.
3-uw" p tdrooped, duped, grouped, looped, pooped, regrouped, souped, stooped, swooped, trooped, whooped.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: SCOOPED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-o-o-p-s"

-1 letter: cooped, scoped.

-2 letters: codes, coeds, cooed, coops, coped, copes, copse, decos, dopes, poods, posed, scoop, scope, spode.

-3 letters: ceps, code, cods, coed, coop, coos, cope, cops, deco, docs, does, dope, dose, epos, odes, oops, oped, opes, pecs, peds, peso, poco, pods, pood, pose, scop, spec, sped.

-4 letters: cep, cod, coo, cop, cos, doc, doe, dos, eds, ode, ods, oes, ope, ops, ose, pec, ped, pes, pod, sec, sod, sop.

-5 letters: de, do, ed, es, od, oe, op, os, pe, so.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-o-o-p-s"
 

+1 letter: composed, copepods, postcode, scrooped.

 

+2 letters: chenopods, clodpoles, composted, decompose, endoscope, endoscopy, hodoscope, octopodes, postcodes, scolloped.

 

+3 letters: codevelops, composedly, composited, coproduces, correspond, decapodous, decomposed, decomposer, decomposes, discompose, endoscopes, endoscopic, hodoscopes, outscooped, picosecond, pseudocoel, recomposed.

 

+4 letters: cephalopods, chiropodies, clodhoppers, compendious, compounders, compradores, compromised, coproducers, copyholders, corresponds, cosponsored, decomposers, decomposing, dichroscope, discomposed, discomposes, endoscopies, hopscotched, orthopedics, outproduces, peckerwoods, picoseconds, postdivorce, proboscides, procercoids, pseudocoels, scolopendra, supercooled, woodpeckers, zeptosecond.

 

+5 letters: codevelopers, composedness, computerdoms, corespondent, corresponded, counterposed, decomposable, dichroscopes, diplodocuses, discomposure, fluoroscoped, kaleidoscope, orthopaedics, overproduces, periodontics, phagocytosed, photoreduces, proboscidean, processioned, proctodaeums, scolopendras, undecomposed, woodchoppers, zeptoseconds.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: SCOOPED


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 43 4F 4F 50 45 44

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    ---    ---    .--.    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01000011 01001111 01001111 01010000 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#79 &#79 &#80 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 004F 004F 0050 0045 0044

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53374949503938

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Translations: Modern
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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