Stoop vs Now - What's the difference?
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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)
* 1905 Carpentry and Building , vol. 27 (January 1905), NY: David Williams Company,
The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
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To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
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To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
* 1882 [1875], Thomas Bewick, James Reiveley, William Harvey, The Parlour Menagerie , 4th ed.,
To cause to incline downward; to slant.
To cause to submit; to prostrate.
* Chapman
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
* Dryden
* Addison
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
* Goldsmith
* Francis Bacon
To degrade.
A stooping (ie. bent, see the "Verb" section above) position of the body
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An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
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Present; current.
* 17th C , , Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion , 1885,
* 1855 , Conrad Swackhamer, The United States democratic review , Volume 5?,
* 1908 , The English reports ,
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(archaic, legal) At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.
(informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
At the present time.
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Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
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Differently from the situation before a stated event or change of circumstance.
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(obsolete) Very recently; not long ago.
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since something is true : because of the fact that something happened
: Now you mention it, I am kind of hungry.
since, because, in light of the fact.
— usually + that
: Now that you mention it, I am kind of hungry.
: Now that''' we're all here, let's start the meeting. = Let's start the meeting '''now that everyone's here.
Indicates a signal to begin.
(uncountable) The present time.
# The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
# A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
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As nouns the difference between stoop and now
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 now is new moon.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)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.
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- ...the entrance being at the side of the house and reached by a low front stoop with four or five risers...
Synonyms
* (small porch) porch, verandah * (doorstep) step, doorstepEtymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare (steep).Verb
(en verb)- He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.
- 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.
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- Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?
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- Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.
- to stoop a cask of liquor
- Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears / Are stooped by death; and many left alive.
- Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, / Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.
- These are arts, my prince, / In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome.
- She stoops to conquer.
- Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.
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Synonyms
(bend oneself forwards and downwards) * bend downDerived terms
* stoop and roopNoun
(en noun)- The old man walked with a stoop .
- 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.
- At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarry
Derived terms
* stoopyEtymology 3
From (etyl), from (etyl)Alternative forms
* stoupDerived terms
* stoup and roomEtymology 4
Old English stopeAlternative forms
* stoupAnagrams
* * English terms with multiple etymologiesnow
English
(wikipedia now)Adjective
(-)page 207,
- Defects seem as necessary to our now happiness as their Opposites.
- The history of the infant colonies teaches us that the country comprised within the limits of the now United States of America was originally patented in the reign of James I., of England, into two portions:'' that in less than eighty years from that period, the same was again divided into ''twelve'' distinct provinces; a ''thirteenth being after added in the creation of the State of Georgia.
- Where in assumpsit for money lent, the defendant pleaded that in an action in which the now' defendant was plaintiff, and the ' now plaintiff was defendant,.
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- Radio 4's continuity announcer said at the end of the show: "As many of you will have noticed, that edition of The Now Show wasn't very now . It was actually last week's programme. Our apologies for that."
- Now wife.
- I think this band's sound is very now .
See also
* happeningAdverb
(-)- I have a patient now living, at an advanced age, who discharged blood from his lungs thirty years ago.
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- They that but now , for honour and for plate, / Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.
Derived terms
* nowadays * now and then * right now *Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- ''We can play football now that the rain has stopped.
Interjection
(en-interj)!- ''Now! Fire all we've got while the enemy is in reach!
Noun
(en-noun)- Now is the right time.
- There is no better time than now .
- She is living in the now .
- Forever is composed of nows .