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Definitioner
Substantiv
- (chiefly Northeastern US chiefly New York, also, Canada) The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
- A stooping (ie. bent, see the "Verb" section above) position of the body
- (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
- A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
- The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
- An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
Verb
- To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward.
- To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
- Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
- (transitive) To cause to incline downward; to slant.
- (transitive) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
- To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
- To degrade.
Exempel
- Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears / Are stooped by death; and many left alive.
- A high, but slightly stooping, shambling and wavering person
- (UK) A stoop is the threshold of one’s doorway, a doorstep.
- (US, Canada) A stoop is a small porch, unroofed platform, or raised veranda leading to a main entrance.
- Fetch me a stoop of liquor.
- At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarry
- Theo Walcott's final pass has often drawn criticism but there could be no complaint in the 11th minute when his perfect delivery to the far post only required a stoop and a nod of the head from Young to put England ahead.
- The old man walked with a stoop.
- Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.
- She stoops to conquer.
- Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, [...] / Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.
- These are arts, my prince, / In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome.
- Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops, with seats, at its door.
- to stoop a cask of liquor
- Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?
- Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.
- Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes.
- He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.
- Pedersen took a short corner and El-Hadji Diouf was given time to send in a cross for Mame Diouf to stoop and head home from close range.
- She grins at me and lifts her walker over the stoop.
- Holding her breath while she set one foot over the stoop and followed it up into the house
- You better hurry up and get strong, if you going to carry me across the stoop.
- A short flight of iron steps leads up to it and a storm door is built over the stoop, forming a little vestibule, and serving to keep out the gusts.
- ...the entrance being at the side of the house and reached by a low front stoop with four or five risers...
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