scooping

English

Verb

scooping

1. present participle and gerund of scoop

Noun

scooping (countable and uncountable, plural scoopings)

1. The process or result of something being scooped.
   • 1853, Robert Jameson, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal:

     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 […]

2. (music) A singing technique in which the singer begins by singing a note slightly below the desired pitch, and then slides up to it.