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stool
[ stool ]
noun
- a single seat on legs or a pedestal and without arms or a back.
- a short, low support on which to stand, step, kneel, or rest the feet while sitting.
- Horticulture. the stump, base, or root of a plant from which propagative organs are produced, as shoots for layering.
- the base of a plant that annually produces new stems or shoots.
- a cluster of shoots or stems springing up from such a base or from any root, or a single shoot or layer.
- a bird fastened to a pole or perch and used as a decoy.
- an artificial duck or other bird, usually made from wood, used as a decoy by hunters.
- a privy.
- the fecal matter evacuated at each movement of the bowels.
- the sill of a window.
- a bishop's seat considered as symbolic of his authority; see.
- the sacred chair of certain African chiefs, symbolic of their kingship.
verb (used without object)
- to put forth shoots from the base or root, as a plant; form a stool.
- Slang. to turn informer; serve as a stool pigeon.
stool
/ stuːl /
noun
- a backless seat or footrest consisting of a small flat piece of wood, etc, resting on three or four legs, a pedestal, etc
- a rootstock or base of a plant, usually a woody plant, from which shoots, etc, are produced
- a cluster of shoots growing from such a base
- a decoy used in hunting
- waste matter evacuated from the bowels
- a lavatory seat
- (in W Africa, esp Ghana) a chief's throne
- fall between two stoolsfall between two stools
- to fail through vacillation between two alternatives
- to be in an unsatisfactory situation through not belonging to either of two categories or groups
verb
- (of a plant) to send up shoots from the base of the stem, rootstock, etc
- to lure wildfowl with a decoy
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- stoollike adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stool1
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Idioms and Phrases
- fall between two stools, to fail, through hesitation or indecision, to select either of two alternatives.
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In addition to the idiom beginning with stool , also see fall between the cracks (two stools) .Discover More
Example Sentences
He noticed her in the crowd while he was sitting on his stool between rounds.
Furthermore, a person with norovirus has about 70 billion viral particles per gram of stool.
I try to catch the eye of this third boy, but he plops down onto a stool and avoids my gaze.
Long wisps fall across her forehead as she sits very straight on her stool, her narrow shoulder blades drawn back elegantly.
Everman had his last drink and left for the night when a friend grabbed me by the arm, yanking me off my stool.
Tony's stool was nearer to the bass keys of the piano, while the sofa Lettice lay upon had certainly been drawn up towards him.
If, now, the patient cough or strain as if at stool, the contents of the stomach will usually be forced out through the tube.
When bleeding piles are absent, blood-streaks upon such a stool point to carcinoma.
When the mucus is small in amount and intimately mixed with the stool, the trouble is probably in the small intestine.
A Gram-positive stool due to cocci is suggestive of intestinal ulceration.
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