SCALLOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scallop mean? 

• SCALLOP (noun)
  The noun SCALLOP has 4 senses:

1. one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)

2. edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces

3. thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled

4. edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions

  Familiarity information: SCALLOP used as a noun is uncommon.

• SCALLOP (verb)
  The verb SCALLOP has 5 senses:

1. decorate an edge with scallops

2. bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top

3. form scallops in

4. fish for scallops

5. shape or cut in scallops

  Familiarity information: SCALLOP used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCALLOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

crenation; crenature; crenel; crenelle; scallop

Hypernyms ("scallop" is a kind of...):

curve; curved shape (the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes)

Derivation:

scallop (shape or cut in scallops)

scallop (decorate an edge with scallops)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

escallop; scallop; scollop

Hypernyms ("scallop" is a kind of...):

shellfish (meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell (especially a mollusk or crustacean))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scallop"):

sea scallop (muscle of large deep-water scallops)

bay scallop (muscle of small choice shallow-water scallops)

Holonyms ("scallop" is a part of...):

escallop; scallop; scollop (edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions)

Derivation:

scallop (fish for scallops)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

cutlet; escallop; scallop; scollop

Hypernyms ("scallop" is a kind of...):

piece; slice (a serving that has been cut from a larger portion)

Derivation:

scallop (fish for scallops)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

escallop; scallop; scollop

Hypernyms ("scallop" is a kind of...):

bivalve; lamellibranch; pelecypod (marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together)

Meronyms (parts of "scallop"):

escallop; scallop; scollop (edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scallop"):

bay scallop; Pecten irradians (a small scallop inhabiting shallow waters and mud flats of the Atlantic coast of North America)

giant scallop; Pecten magellanicus; sea scallop (a large scallop inhabiting deep waters of the Atlantic coast of North America)

Holonyms ("scallop" is a member of...):

family Pectinidae; Pectinidae (scallops)

Derivation:

scallop (fish for scallops)

• SCALLOP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they scallop    ... he / she / it scallops   
Past simple: scalloped   
Past participle: scalloped   
-ing form: scalloping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Decorate an edge with scallops

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

the dress had a scalloped skirt

Hypernyms (to "scallop" is one way to...):

adorn; beautify; decorate; embellish; grace; ornament (make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

scallop (one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

escallop; scallop

Hypernyms (to "scallop" is one way to...):

cook; fix; make; prepare; ready (prepare for eating by applying heat)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Form scallops in

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

scallop; scollop

Context example:

scallop the meat

Hypernyms (to "scallop" is one way to...):

core out; hollow; hollow out (remove the interior of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

In the summer they like to go out and scallop

Sense 4

Meaning:

Fish for scallops

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

scallop; scollop

Hypernyms (to "scallop" is one way to...):

fish (catch or try to catch fish or shellfish)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

scallop (edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions)

scallop (thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled)

scallop (edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Shape or cut in scallops

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

scallop; scollop

Context example:

scallop the hem of the dress

Hypernyms (to "scallop" is one way to...):

form; shape (give shape or form to)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

scallop (one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.))

 Context examples 

“Small! Clams and scallops! Ask me to your table to partake of the dainty of the town, and when I come a barren welcome and a bare board! Where is my spear-bearer?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With an alacrity beyond the common impulse of a spirit which yet was never indifferent to the credit of doing every thing well and attentively, with the real good-will of a mind delighted with its own ideas, did she then do all the honours of the meal, and help and recommend the minced chicken and scalloped oysters, with an urgency which she knew would be acceptable to the early hours and civil scruples of their guests.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“The clams and scallops shall be ready within the hour,” the mayor answered.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Am I to be put off with words? I say to you again, how of the clams and scallops?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“How now, Sir Mayor? How of the clams and the scallops?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So urgent was Sir Nigel on the shore, and so prompt was Goodwin Hawtayne on the cog, that Sir Oliver Buttesthorn had scarce swallowed his last scallop ere the peal of the trumpet and clang of nakir announced that all was ready and the anchor drawn.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Our eyes lifted over the rosebeds and the hot lawn and the weedy refuse of the dog days along shore. Slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky. Ahead lay the scalloped ocean and the abounding blessed isles.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)