What is the difference between Scoop and Scope?
What is the difference between Scoop and Scope? :
Scoop : (verb)
( 1 ) Deep shovel-like tool used for picking up and moving grain, flour, sugar and other things
The buckets on the dredger scoop up mud from the river bottom and dump it in a barge.
( 2 ) Make a hole with, as if with, a scoop
He scooped a hole in the sand.
( 3 ) Act before a rival to get a scoop
She scooped all the national newspaper to get the story.
Scoop : (noun)
( 1 ) Deep shovel-like tool used for picking up and moving grain, flour, sugar and other things
Piece of news made public by a newspaper, radio station, etc…before its rivals
He got all the big scoops for the paper.
Scope : (noun)
( 1 ) Opportunity to do or achieve something
He secured a job with a lot of scope for prospects.
This is a house with some scope for improvement.
( 2 ) Range of matters being dealt with, studied, etc…
This subject is outside the scope of our enquiry.
