Feces vs Stool - What's the difference?
feces | stool |
Digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from the bowels; excrement.
English pluralia tantum
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A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
A footstool.
Feces; excrement.
(label) A decoy.
A seat; a seat with a back; a chair.
Throne.
(label) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; a toilet.
(label) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
(agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
*1869 , Richard D. Blackmore,
*:I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills, of the larger and straighter stuff.
As nouns the difference between feces and stool
is that feces is digested waste material (typically solid or semi-solid) discharged from the bowels; excrement while stool is a seat for one person without a back or armrest.As a verb stool is
to ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.feces
English
(wikipedia feces)Alternative forms
* faeces (British), (archaic)Noun
(en-plural noun) (North American spelling)Usage notes
* This word can be used with plural verbs ("feces have a strong smell") or singular ones ("feces has a strong smell"). Use with plural verbs is more common, especially in Britain, and is the only use recognized by some dictionaries,Synonyms
* (discharged animal waste) excrement, faecal matter, guano (of birds or bats only), manure (not used of human faeces) * night soil (euphemistic) * doo, poo, poop, boo-boo, and doody (euphemistic or hypocoristic) * crap, shit, turd, log (vulgar) * See alsoReferences
stool
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at stand.Noun
(en noun)- (Totten)