Stoop

[stuːp] or [stʊp]

Definition

(noun.) an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward.

(noun.) small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house.

(verb.) 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'.

(verb.) sag, bend, bend over or down; 'the rocks stooped down over the hiking path'.

(verb.) descend swiftly, as if on prey; 'The eagle stooped on the mice in the field'.

Typist: Owen--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) A vessel of liquor; a flagon.

(n.) A post fixed in the earth.

(v. i.) 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.

(v. i.) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.

(v. i.) To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.

(v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.

(v. i.) To sink when on the wing; to alight.

(v. t.) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.

(v. t.) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.

(v. t.) To cause to submit; to prostrate.

(v. t.) To degrade.

(n.) The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.

(n.) Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.

(n.) The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.

Typed by Emile

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. n. [1]. Couch, bend forward, bend down, lean forward.[2]. Cower, yield, submit, succumb, surrender, knuckle, give in.[3]. Condescend, deign, vouchsafe.[4]. Swoop, descend, come down, bear down.[5]. Sink, fall.

v. a. Lower, abase, bow, bend down, bend forward.

n. [1]. Condescension.[2]. Swoop, descent.[3]. Flagon, bowl.[4]. [U. S.] Door-steps, porch.

Typed by Jody

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:bend, condescend, yield,[See ACCUMULATION]

Edited by Hilda

Definition

n. (Shak.) a vessel of liquor a flagon: liquor for drinking: a basin for holy water.

n. a prop support a patron.

n. an open platform before the entrance of a house.

v.i. 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.—v.t. to cause to incline downward.—n. the act of stooping: inclination forward: descent: condescension: a swoop.—adj. Stooped having a stoop bent.—n. Stoop′er one who stoops.—p.adj. Stoop′ing.—adv. Stoop′ingly.

Typist: Silvia