scoop vs dip

scoop and dip both are nouns.

scoop and dip both are verbs.

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

As verbs, dip is a hyponym of scoop; that is, dip is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than scoop:

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

scoop (noun)	dip (noun)
a large ladle	a brief swim in water
the shovel or bucket of a dredge or backhoe	a gymnastic exercise on the parallel bars in which the body is lowered and raised by bending and straightening the arms
street names for gamma hydroxybutyrate	a candle that is made by repeated dipping in a pool of wax or tallow
a news report that is reported first by one news organization	a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity
the quantity a scoop will hold	a brief immersion
a hollow concave shape made by removing something	tasty mixture or liquid into which bite-sized foods are dipped
	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

scoop (verb)	dip (verb)
get the better of	stain an object by immersing it in a liquid
take out or up with or as if with a scoop	go down momentarily
	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 scoop and dip

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