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Stoop vs Corridor - What's the difference?

stoop | corridor |

As nouns the difference between stoop and corridor

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 corridor is a narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see ).

As a verb stoop

is to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward.

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

    corridor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see ).
  • *
  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors . Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
    • , section=chapter 1/1, title= Death Walks in Eastrepps , passage=Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.}}
  • A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
  • Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.

    • Derived terms

    * the corridors of power *