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Stoop vs Deflect - What's the difference?

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Stoop is a related term of deflect.


In lang=en terms the difference between stoop and deflect

is that stoop is to cause to submit; to prostrate while deflect is to deviate from its original path.

As verbs the difference between stoop and deflect

is that stoop is to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward while deflect is to make (something) deviate from its original path.

As a noun 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.

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

    deflect

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make (something) deviate from its original path.
  • To deviate from its original path.
  • (figuratively) To avoid addressing (questions, criticism, etc.).
    • The Prime Minister deflected some increasingly pointed questions by claiming he had an appointment.
  • (figuratively) To divert (attention, etc.).
  • * 2013 , Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/02/argentina-britain-hand-back-falklands]
    • Critics suggest that Fernández, an unashamed populist and nationalist, is seeking to deflect attention from social disharmony at home.