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present participle and gerund of scoop examples
countable and uncountable, plural scoopings
The process or result of something being scooped. quotations examples
I observed that a moulding descended obliquely from this entrance down to the bottom, while striae followed the same line, the whole sides indeed being marked by curious scoopings, and intermediate ridgings […]
1853, Robert Jameson, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
(music) A singing technique in which the singer begins by singing a note slightly below the desired pitch, and then slides up to it. examples