different between stoop vs leant
stoop
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)
- (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...
- (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)
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 1882 [1875], Thomas Bewick, James Reiveley, William Harvey, The Parlour Menagerie, 4th ed., p. 63:
- (transitive) To cause to incline downward; to slant.
- to stoop a cask of liquor
- (transitive) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- 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.
- 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
- 1819, Washington Irving, Bracebridge Hall: Hawking:
Derived terms
- stoopy
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse stolpe.
Alternative forms
- stoup
Noun
stoop (plural stoops)
- (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)
- A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon.
Alternative forms
- stoup, stowp
Anagrams
- Spoto, poots, topos
stoop From the web:
- what stoop mean
- what stops diarrhea
- what stopped the spanish flu
- what stops heartburn
- what stops bleeding fast
- what stops hiccups
- what stops your period
- what stops nausea
leant
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?nt/
- Homophones: lent, Lent
- Rhymes: -?nt
Verb
leant
- (chiefly Britain) simple past tense and past participle of lean
Anagrams
- Antle, ental, laten
leant From the web:
- what length skis
- what length snowboard do i need
- what length putter do i need
- what length cross country skis
- what lengths do curtains come in
- what length putter should i use
- what length arrow do i need
- what length skateboard should i get
you may also like
- stoop vs leant
- leant vs leaned
- leant vs leany
- leant vs lant
- leant vs leint
- leant vs leans
- leant vs levant
- leant vs leat
- leant vs least
- entryway vs accessway
- stoop vs entryway
- entryway vs vestibule
- entryway vs genkan
- hall vs entryway
- entryway vs entranceway
- ingang vs entryway
- confirm vs elucidate
- suggest vs elucidate
- elude vs elucidate
- show vs elucidate