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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
scooping en · NOUN
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The process or result of something being scooped.
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:
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(countable, uncountable) A singing technique in which the singer begins by singing a note slightly below the desired pitch, and then slides up to it.
Forms
scooping en · VERB
Meanings
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of scoop