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Stoop vs Buckle - What's the difference?

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Stoop is a related term of buckle.


In lang=en terms the difference between stoop and buckle

is that stoop is to cause to submit; to prostrate while buckle is to fasten using a buckle.

As nouns the difference between stoop and buckle

is that stoop is the staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence or stoop can be a stooping (ie bent, see the "verb" section above) position of the body or stoop can be (dialect) a post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine or stoop can be a vessel of liquor; a flagon while buckle is (countable) a clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.

As verbs the difference between stoop and buckle

is that stoop is to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward while buckle is to distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression or buckle can be to fasten using a buckle.

stoop

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Cognate with English "step".

Noun

(en noun)
  • The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
  • * 1856 James Fenimore Cooper, Satanstoe or The Littlepage Manuscripts: A Tale of the Colony (London, 1856) page 110
    • Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops , with seats, at its door.
  • * 1905 Carpentry and Building , vol. 27 (January 1905), NY: David Williams Company, page 2
    • ...the entrance being at the side of the house and reached by a low front stoop with four or five risers...
  • The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
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    • Synonyms
    * (small porch) porch, verandah * (doorstep) step, doorstep

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Compare (steep).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward.
    • He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.
  • * 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
    • Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 28 , author=Kevin Darlin , title=West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Pedersen took a short corner and El-Hadji Diouf was given time to send in a cross for Mame Diouf to stoop and head home from close range. }}
  • To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
    • Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?
  • Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
  • * 1882 [1875], Thomas Bewick, James Reiveley, William Harvey, The Parlour Menagerie , 4th ed., p. 63:
    • Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.
  • To cause to incline downward; to slant.
    • to stoop a cask of liquor
  • To cause to submit; to prostrate.
  • * Chapman
    • Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears / Are stooped by death; and many left alive.
  • To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
  • * Dryden
    • Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, / Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.
  • * Addison
    • These are arts, my prince, / In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome.
  • To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
  • * Goldsmith
    • She stoops to conquer.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.
  • To degrade.
    • (Shakespeare)
    Synonyms
    (bend oneself forwards and downwards) * bend down
    Derived terms
    * stoop and roop

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stooping (ie. bent, see the "Verb" section above) position of the body
    • The old man walked with a stoop .
  • * 2011 , Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15195384.stm]
    • Theo Walcott's final pass has often drawn criticism but there could be no complaint in the 11th minute when his perfect delivery to the far post only required a stoop and a nod of the head from Young to put England ahead.
  • An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
  • * 1819 , :
    • At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarry
    Derived terms
    * stoopy

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl), from (etyl)

    Alternative forms

    * stoup

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
    • Derived terms
    * stoup and room

    Etymology 4

    Old English stope

    Alternative forms

    * stoup

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Fetch me a stoop of liquor.

    Anagrams

    * * English terms with multiple etymologies

    buckle

    English

    (wikipedia buckle)

    Etymology 1

    From a frequentative form of .

    Verb

    (buckl)
  • To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression.
  • * 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
    • Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled , preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.
  • To make bend; to cause to become distorted.
  • (figuratively) To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person).
    • It is amazing that he has never buckled after so many years of doing such urgent work.
  • To yield; to give way; to cease opposing.
  • * Samuel Pepys
    • The Dutch, as high as they seem, do begin to buckle .
  • (obsolete) To enter upon some labour or contest; to join in close fight; to contend.
  • * Latimer
    • The bishop was as able and ready to buckle with the Lord Protector as he was with him.
  • * Shakespeare
    • In single combat thou shalt buckle with me.
  • To buckle down; to apply oneself.
  • * Barrow
    • To make our sturdy humour buckle thereto.
  • * J. D. Forbes
    • Before buckling to my winter's work.
  • * Fuller
    • Cartwright buckled himself to the employment.

    Etymology 2

    * Noun: (etyl) bocle, from (etyl) . * Verb: bokelen "to arch the body," from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (countable) A clasp used for fastening two things together, such as the ends of a belt, or for retaining the end of a strap.
  • (Canada, heraldry) The brisure of an eighth daughter.
  • (roofing) An upward, elongated displacement of a roof membrane frequently occurring over insulation or deck joints. A buckle may be an indication of movement with the roof assembly.
  • A distortion, bulge, bend, or kink, as in a saw blade or a plate of sheet metal.
    • (Knight)
  • A curl of hair, especially a kind of crisp curl formerly worn; also, the state of being curled.
  • * Washington Irving
    • earlocks in tight buckles on each side of a lantern face
  • * Addison
    • lets his wig lie in buckle for a whole half year
  • A contorted expression, as of the face.
  • * Churchill
    • 'Gainst nature armed by gravity, / His features too in buckle see.

    Verb

  • To fasten using a buckle.
  • (Scotland) To unite in marriage.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)

    See also

    * buckle down * buckle up * turnbuckle

    Anagrams

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