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Swooping vs Scooping - What's the difference?

swooping | scooping |

As verbs the difference between swooping and scooping

is that swooping is while scooping is .

As nouns the difference between swooping and scooping

is that swooping is the action of the verb to swoop while scooping is the process or result of something being scooped.

As an adjective swooping

is that swoops or swoop.

swooping

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb to swoop .
  • * (Annie Finch)
    • I rarely dared to write there after dark, but once in a while, gripped by the need to type a fresh version of a certain passage, I would type by candle or kerosene lamp and be treated to their [bats'] swoopings through the room.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • That swoops or swoop.
    • a swooping motion

    scooping

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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