different between balcony vs stoop

English

Etymology

From Italian balcone (“balcony, floor-length window”), from Old Italian balcone (“scaffold”) from Lombardic *balk, *balko (“beam”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô (“beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el?- (“beam, pile, prop”). Akin to Old High German balco, balcho (“beam”), Old English balca (“beam, ridge”). More at balk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bælk?ni/

Noun

balcony (plural balconies)

1. (architecture) An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.
   • "The next day as the three travelers were approaching the town, Peter went out on the balcony to pray."—Book of Acts 10:9–13, The Message translation
2. An accessible structure overlooking a stage or the like.

Derived terms

• balconette
• balconette bra
• balconic
• balcony bra
• balconylike

Translations

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /stu?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch stoep (“platform", "pavement”). Doublet of stoep. Cognate with step.

Noun

stoop (plural stoops)

1. (chiefly Northeastern US, chiefly New York, also Canada) The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.

   Synonyms: porch, verandah

   • 1856 James Fenimore Cooper, Satanstoe or The Littlepage Manuscripts: A Tale of the Colony (London, 1856) page 110

     Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops, with seats, at its door.

   • 1905 Carpentry and Building, vol. 27 (January 1905), NY: David Williams Company, page 2

     ...the entrance being at the side of the house and reached by a low front stoop with four or five risers...

2. (US) The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.

   Synonyms: step, doorstep

Related terms

• stoep

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English stoupen, from Old English st?pian (“to bow, bend”), from Proto-Germanic *st?p?n?, *st?pijan? (“to stand out”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, butt, knock”). Compare steep. Cognate with Dutch stuipen (“to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward”), Old Norse stúpa (“to stoop”). Related also to Old Frisian st?pa (“to help”), Old Norse steypa (“to cause to stoop, cast down, overthrow”).

Verb

stoop (third-person singular simple present stoops, present participle stooping, simple past and past participle stooped)

1. To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.

   He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     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.
2. To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.

   Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?

3. Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
   • 1882 [1875], Thomas Bewick, James Reiveley, William Harvey, The Parlour Menagerie, 4th ed., p. 63:

     Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.

4. (transitive) To cause to incline downward; to slant.

   to stoop a cask of liquor

5. (transitive) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
6. To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.

   • 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.

7. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
   • 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Riches

     Where men of great wealth do stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.

8. To degrade.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

Synonyms

(bend oneself forwards and downwards):

• bend down
• crouch
• squat

Derived terms

• stoop and roop

Translations

Noun

stoop (plural stoops)

1. A stooping, bent position of the body.

   The old man walked with a stoop.

   • 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [3]

     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.

2. An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
   • 1819, Washington Irving, Bracebridge Hall: Hawking:

     At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarry

Derived terms

• stoopy

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse stolpe.

Alternative forms

• stoup

Noun

stoop (plural stoops)

1. (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.

Derived terms

• stoup and room

Etymology 4

From Old English stope.

Noun

stoop (plural stoops)

1. A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon.

Alternative forms

• stoup, stowp

Anagrams

• Spoto, poots, topos