Stoop vs Stoor - What's the difference?
stoop | stoor |
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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To move; stir.
To move actively; keep stirring.
To rise up in clouds, as smoke, dust, etc.
To stir up, as liquor.
To pour; pour leisurely out of any vessel held high.
To sprinkle.
Stir; bustle; agitation; contention.
A gush of water.
Spray.
A sufficient quanity of yeast for brewing.
As nouns the difference between stoop and stoor
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 stoor is stir; bustle; agitation; contention.As verbs the difference between stoop and stoor
is that stoop is to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward while stoor is to move; stir.As an adjective stoor is
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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.
page 2
- ...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.
- (Shakespeare)
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