STOOP
\stˈuːp], \stˈuːp], \s_t_ˈuː_p]\
Definitions of STOOP
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way; "I won't stoop to reading other people's mail"
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carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward; "The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane"
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sag, bend, bend over or down; "the rocks stooped down over the hiking path"
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descend swiftly, as if on prey; "The eagle stooped on the mice in the field"
By Princeton University
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debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way; "I won't stoop to reading other people's mail"
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carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward; "The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane"
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sag, bend, bend over or down; "the rocks stooped down over the hiking path"
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descend swiftly, as if on prey; "The eagle stooped on the mice in the field"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To degrade.
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Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
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A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
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A post fixed in the earth.
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To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
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To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
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To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
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To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
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To sink when on the wing; to alight.
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To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
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To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
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To cause to submit; to prostrate.
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The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
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Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
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The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
By Oddity Software
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To bend the body downward and forward; descend from rank or dignity; submit; yield.
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To bend (the body) downward and forward.
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Habitual forward bend of head and shoulders; descent from dignity; stairway, veranda, or porch with seats.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To bend the body: to lean forward: to submit: to descend from rank or dignity: to condescend: to swoop down on the wing, as a bird of prey.
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To cause to incline downward.
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The act of stooping: inclination forward: descent: condescension: a swoop.
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A pillar. Quarles.
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A vessel of liquor; as, a stoop of wine or ale. "A stoop of wine."-Shak.
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The steps at the entrance of a house: door-steps: also a porch with a balustrade and seats on the sides. "Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the street, and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops, with seats at the door."-J. F. Cooper.
By Daniel Lyons
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Act of stooping; forward inclination.
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To bend the body forward; condescend; yield; swoop down on the wing.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To bend or lean forward; bow, or be bowed down.
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To bring or come down from dignity or rank; condescend.
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To swoop.
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An act of stooping.
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A swoop.
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An uncovered platform at the door of a house; a porch; veranda.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Act of stooping; condescension; swoop.
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A vessel of liquor.
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To bow down; to cause to incline downward.
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To bend down or incline the body; to yield; to submit; to condescend; to be inferior; to swoop down; to alight; to sink to a lower place.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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To bend the body forwards; to lean forwards in standing or walking; to cause to incline downwards; to yield; to submit; to condescend; to acknowledge inferiority; to come down on its prey, as a hawk.
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Inclination forwards; condescension; in Scot., a post fixed in the earth, or a prop.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. Act of stooping ;-descent from dignity or superiority ; condescension ; - the fall of a bird on its prey ; a swoop.
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n. [Dutch] The steps of a door ; a verandah or a porch [American] ;-also, a stake or lost; especially, the post of a bed ;-figuratively, support ; pillar ; chief promoter of an enterprise or cause.
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Dutch] A vessel of liquor ; a flagon ; a stoup. [Scottish]
