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Stoping vs Stooping - What's the difference?

stoping | stooping |

As nouns the difference between stoping and stooping

is that stoping is in mining, the removal of the desired ore from an underground mine leaving behind an open space known as a stope while stooping is the act of one who stoops.

As an adjective stooping is

bending the body forward; yielding; submitting; condescending; inclining.

As a verb stooping is

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stoping

English

Noun

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  • In mining, the removal of the desired ore from an underground mine leaving behind an open space known as a stope.

    • Derived terms

    * stull stoping * shrinkage stoping * long hole stoping

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    stooping

    English

    Alternative forms

    * stouping

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Bending the body forward; yielding; submitting; condescending; inclining.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who stoops.
  • * 2011 , Don DeLillo, The Names
    • This place was returning to me a sense of my own motion through it, my stoopings into rooms, my pauses to judge the way.

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