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Stool vs Cair - What's the difference?

stool | cair |

As verbs the difference between stool and cair

is that stool is to ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers while cair is to go.

As a noun stool

is a seat for one person without a back or armrest.

As an acronym CAIR is

Clean Air Interstate Rule

stool

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at stand.

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.
    • (Totten)
  • Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    {{der3, footstool , stool pigeon , stoolie , window stool}}

    See also

    * chair * seat

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) stolo. See stolon.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (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.

    • Anagrams

    * loots * tools ----

    cair

    English

    Acronym

    (Acronym) (head)
  • (US)
  • (US)
  • (Australia) Confidential Aviation Incident Reporting

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