0 present participle of scoop
1 to move something with a scoop or with something used as a scoop:
2 to get a large number of votes or prizes:
The party is expected to scoop up the majority of the working-class vote.
3 to be the first newspaper to discover and print an important news story:
Scooping was undertaken for 15 - 30 min at each potential snail habitat and at the edges of larger water bodies.
Collection involved scooping out loose soil from the burrows and sieving it as described above.
The most prominent gestures were shuffling gestures, which ranged from scooping gestures to stroking gestures.
We also evaluated whether the degree of scooping affected the severity of regurgitation across the atrioventricular valve.
The deeper the scooping, the more deviated to the left and superior is the mean frontal axis.
Puparia were collected by removing the trays, scooping off the leaf litter, and sieving the sand through wire gauze.
Moreover, the morphology of the inferior bridging leaflet showed significant correlation with the degree of scooping and electrocardiographic findings.
Hearts with a more deficient interventricular septum (scooping) showed marked left axis deviation regardless of the development of the atrial septum (a and b).
