Squat vs Perch - What's the difference?

As an adjective squat

is relatively short or low and thick or broad.

As a noun squat

is a position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet or squat can be the angel shark (genus squatina ).

As a verb squat

is to bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.

As a proper noun perch is

squat

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) squatten, from (etyl) esquatir, . The sense "nothing" may by a source or a derivation of diddly-squat .

Adjective

(squatter)

Relatively short or low and thick or broad

* Robert Browning

the round, squat turret

* Grew

The head [of the squill insect] is broad and squat .

* 1927 ,

On the gentle slopes there are farms, ancient and rocky, with squat , moss-coated cottages brooding eternally over old New England secrets in the lee of great ledges

Sitting on the hams or heels; sitting close to the ground; cowering; crouching.

* Milton

Him there they found, / Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.

Noun

(en noun)

A position assumed by bending deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.

* 2006 , Yael Calhoun and Matthew R. Calhoun, Create a Yoga Practice for Kids , page 72:

Sit in a squat , with your feet a comfortable distance apart.

(weightlifting): A specific exercise in weightlifting performed by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, especially with a barbell resting across the shoulders.

* 2001 , Robert Wolff, Robert Wolff's Book of Great Workouts , page 58-59:

The king of all quad exercises, and arguably the best single-weight resistance exercise, is the squat .

A toilet used by squatting as opposed to sitting; a (squat toilet).

A building occupied without permission, as practiced by a squatter.

* 1996 July 8, Chris Smith, "Live Free or Die", in New York Magazine? , page 36:

" If you want to spend a night in a squat , it's all political to get in." Lately, as buildings have filled and become stringent about new admissions, much of the squatters' "My house is your house" rhetoric has become hollow.

(slang) Something of no value; nothing.

I know squat about nuclear physics.

* 2003 May 6, "Dear Dotti", ? , volume 24, number 34, page 23:

We didn't ask for rent, but we assumed they'd help around the house. But they don't do squat .

(obsolete) A sudden or crushing fall.

(Herbert)

(mining) A small vein of ore.

A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar.

(Halliwell)

(Woodward)

Derived terms

* breathing squat * front squat * hack squat * sissy squat * squat snipe

Verb

(squatt)

To bend deeply at the knees while resting on one's feet.

* 1901 , , chapter II

He was not going to squat henlike on his place as the cockies around him did.

(weightlifting) To exercise by bending deeply at the knees and then rising, while bearing weight across the shoulders or upper back.

* 1994 , Kurt, Mike, & Brett Brungardt, The Complete Book of Butt and Legs , page 161

For those who are having, or have had, trouble squatting' we suggest learning how to ' squat by performing the front squatThe front squat allows you almost no alternative but to perform the exercise correctly.

To occupy or reside in a place without the permission of the owner.

* 1890 , , chapter VII

Huddled together in loathsome files, they squat there over night, or until an inquisitive policeman breaks up the congregation with his club, which in Mulberry Street has always free swing.

To sit close to the ground; to cower; to stoop, or lie close, to escape observation, as a partridge or rabbit.

(dated) To bruise or flatten by a fall; to squash.

Derived terms

* squatter * squatting

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

The angel shark (genus Squatina ).

(Webster 1913)

Anagrams

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perch

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) perche, from (etyl) perca, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)

Any of the three species of spiny-finned freshwater fish in the genus Perca .

Any of the about 200 related species of fish in the taxonomic family Percidae.

Several similar species in the order Perciformes, such as the grouper.

Hyponyms

* Balkhash perch, European perch, yellow perch * (fish in family Percidae) darter, pike-perch, zander * (fish in order Perciformes) bass

Derived terms

* (black perch) * (blue perch) * (grey perch) * (gray perch) * (red perch) * (red-bellied perch) * (perch pest) * (silver perch) * (stone perch) * (striped perch) * (white perch)

Etymology 2

From (etyl) perche, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)

a rod, staff, or branch of a tree etc used as a roost by a bird

* Tennyson

Not making his high place the lawless perch / Of winged ambitions.

A pole connecting the fore gear and hind gear of a spring carriage; a reach.

a position that is secure and advantageous, especially one which is prominent or elevated

(dated) a linear measure of 5½ yards, equal to a rod, a pole or ¼ chain; the related square measure

a cubic measure of stonework equal to 16.6 × 1.5 × 1 feet

(textiles) a frame used to examine cloth

Derived terms

* knock someone off his perch

Verb

(es)

To rest on (or as if on) a perch; to roost.

To stay in an elevated position.

To place something on (or as if on) a perch.

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(transitive, intransitive, textiles) To inspect cloth using a .