dip vs scoop

dip and scoop both are nouns.

dip and scoop both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
dip	Yes	No	Yes	No
scoop	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, scoop is a hypernym of dip; that is, scoop is a word with a broader meaning than dip:

dip: scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
scoop: take out or up with or as if with a scoop

Other hypernyms of dip include lift out, scoop out, scoop up, take up.

dip (noun)	scoop (noun)
a brief swim in water	a large ladle
a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms	the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe
a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow	street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate
a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity	a news report that is reported first by one news organization
a brief immersion	the quantity a scoop will hold
tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped	a hollow concave shape made by removing something
a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
(physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon
a depression in an otherwise level surface

dip (verb)	scoop (verb)
stain an object by immersing it in a liquid	get the better of
go down momentarily	take out or up with or as if with a scoop
dip into a liquid while eating
immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate
plunge (one's hand or a receptacle) into a container
immerse in a disinfectant solution
scoop up by plunging one's hand or a ladle below the surface
place (candle wicks) into hot, liquid wax
dip into a liquid
appear to move downward
slope downwards
lower briefly
switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam
take a small amount from

Difference between dip and scoop

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