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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.

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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.

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the sill of a window.

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a bishop's seat considered as symbolic of his authority; see.

12.

the sacred chair of certain African chiefs, symbolic of their kingship.

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verb (used without object)

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to put forth shoots from the base or root, as a plant; form a stool.

14.

Slang. to turn informer; serve as a stool pigeon.

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Idiom

15.

fall between two stools, to fail, through hesitation or indecision, to select either of two alternatives.

Origin:
before 900; Middle English; Old English stōl; cognate with German Stuhl, Old Norse stōll, Gothic stols chair; all < Germanic *stō- (< Indo-European root of stand) + *-l- suffix; akin to OCS stolŭ throne

Related forms

stool·like, adjective

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Example Sentences

In fact, it is increased gas in the stool that make it less dense and allow it to float.

Gelernter is perched on a stool in his airy, sunlit kitchen.

It's better than the guy on the next stool at the bar, but it's not as good as a true professional.

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In fact, it is increased gas in the stool that make it less dense and allow it to float.

Gelernter is perched on a stool in his airy, sunlit kitchen.

It's better than the guy on the next stool at the bar, but it's not as good as a true professional.

To move around, users sit on the device as though it's a stool and lean their weight in the direction they want to travel.

If your parents don't need a step stool to reach the top shelf, you're probably right up there, too.

Rockwell placed a handkerchief on a stick beneath the stool.

Give shorter kids a stepladder or stool to stand on at the counter or stove.

There is more blood in his urine, and still more in his stool.

Blood in the stool may come from anywhere along your digestive tract, from mouth to anus.

Only when you stand on a stool to look over the screen do you realise that his chest cavity has already been cut open.

Next door is a shop barely big enough for the man hunched on a stool sewing yellow lace on a purple dress.

The bacteria that cause cholera infect the gut and bloody the stool of victims.

Her glossy auburn hair braided and coiled around her head, she sits on a stool before an easel, deftly applying paint to a canvas.

Fewell-Flowers steps away from her milking stool and lets a visitor try her hand at the udder.

She'll blast off that stool and out of your life forever, warp factor nine.

Start by cutting the stool to fit between the window frame's sides, or jambs.

Please provide examples of budget reductions when the same party controlled all three legs of the stool.

But he'll go in his kennel whether his stool is loose or not.

Seated on a stool with hands folded primly on its lap, it wore a bright pink blazer and gray slacks.

Inevitably, one gets caught on a fallen branch or a sunken mafia stool pigeon, forcing skippers to cut their losses.

Never underestimate the versatility of the humble stool.

Yon slides on a stool between a microphone and a drum kit, as the mood moves him.

Have a stool sample done at your vets office to rule this out.

Include laxatives with the tyvec jumpsuit and present your stool at boarding.

Out back a woman sits on a stool washing a big battered pot with a small bowl of water.

Laboratory tests may be done on the food or a stool sample to determine what bacteria is causing your symptoms.

There is a red darned patch on the white sock of another disciple, and a pile of coats, bags and a book on a stool.

When the descent is finished, they take away the screen and the magician is standing still on an stool.

People infected with the bacteria release it into their stool.

If any one group failsthink of it as a three legged stool.

The team sent off stool and blood samples to be tested for botulism.

The real estate speculation, tourism, and retirement are the three legs of that stool.

Only a small amount of sodium is lost through the stool or sweat.

Stool will go through the stoma into a drainage bag outside your body.

Following treatment, breath and stool tests can determine if you have been cured of the infection.

Stool testing may show small amounts of blood in the stool.

Pharmacies offer fibrous supplements to soften the stool and stimulate the gut.

Conditions that cause vomiting blood can also cause blood in the stool.

Zelnorm seems to work by encouraging a wavelike movement in the gut that helps move stool through.

Flushable reagent stool blood test is an at-home test to detect hidden blood in the stool.

Khoruts mixed a small sample of her husband's stool with saline solution and delivered it into her colon.

He is having a stool test, the fecal occult blood test, between colonoscopies.

My afternoon routine consisted of perching myself on a stool in his workshop, peppering him with random questions as he worked.

Friedman said that when a dog is sick, often the first visible symptom may be found in its stool.

After shower time, she would stand on a stool beside him as he lathered up.

Now scientists have developed a new way to detect the parasite in the stool.

It is possible to order coffee and take your sweet roll through the adjoining door to a stool at the bar of the.

The colon absorbs water from liquid stool that is delivered to it from the small intestine.

Akre compares his investing style to a three-legged milking stool that he keeps in his office.

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World English Dictionary

stool (stuːl)

—n
1.	a backless seat or footrest consisting of a small flat piece of wood, etc, resting on three or four legs, a pedestal, etc
2.	a rootstock or base of a plant, usually a woody plant, from which shoots, etc, are produced
3.	a cluster of shoots growing from such a base
4.	chiefly (US) a decoy used in hunting
5.	waste matter evacuated from the bowels
6.	a lavatory seat
7.	(in W Africa, esp Ghana) a chief's throne
8.	fall between two stools
	a. to fail through vacillation between two alternatives
	b. to be in an unsatisfactory situation through not belonging to either of two categories or groups

—vb
9.	(of a plant) to send up shoots from the base of the stem, rootstock, etc
10.	to lure wildfowl with a decoy

[Old English stōl; related to Old Norse stōll, Gothic stōls, Old High German stuol chair, Greek stulos pillar]

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Etymonline

Word Origin & History

stool

O.E. stol "seat for one person," from P.Gmc. *stolaz (cf. O.Fris. stol, O.N. stoll, O.H.G. stuol, Ger. Stuhl "seat," Goth. stols "high seat, throne"), from PIE *sta-lo-, locative of base *sta- "to stand" (cf. Lith. pa-stolas "stand," O.C.S. stolu "stool;" see stet). Originally

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used of thrones (cf. cynestol "royal seat, throne"); change of meaning began with adoption of chair from Fr., which relegated stool to small seats without arms or backs, then "privy" (1410) and thence to "bowel movement" (1533).

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American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

stool (st&oomacr;l)
n.

A discharging of the bowels.
Evacuated fecal matter.

Slang Dictionary

stool (on (so)) definition

in.
to inform (on someone). (To act as a stool (pigeon).) : Britney would stool on anybody, even her own mother.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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stool (pigeon) definition

[ˈstul ˈpɪdʒən] and [ˈstuli]
and stoolie

n.
an informer. (Originally underworld.) : Some stool pigeon spilled the works to the boys in blue. , I'm no stoolie!

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

stool

In addition to the idiom beginning with stool, also see fall between the cracks (two stools).

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