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Definition: SCOOPED |
SCOOPEDImperative & past participle1. Of Scoop |
Date "SCOOPED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1813. (references) |
Crosswords: SCOOPED |
| English words defined with "SCOOPED": Croustade ♦ stuffed cabbage. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SCOOPED": SCOOPING-MACHINE TENDER, scraper tender, seat scooper, machine ♦ TRACER-BULLET-CHARGING-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "SCOOPED": Scaphite. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | 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. | |||
| Title | Author | Quote |
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. | ||
| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 74.89% | 173 | 23,656 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 22.08% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 3.03% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 231 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "SCOOPED": scooped-neck, scooped-out. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 | ||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SCOOPED": outscooped. (additional references) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "SCOOPED" (pronounced skuw"pt) |
| 4 | -k uw" p t | cooped, recouped. |
| 3 | -uw" p t | drooped, duped, grouped, looped, pooped, regrouped, souped, stooped, swooped, trooped, whooped. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 43 4F 4F 50 45 44 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. --- --- .--. . -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01000011 01001111 01001111 01010000 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S C O O P E D |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53374949503938 |
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