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Urine vs Stool - What's the difference?

urine | stool |

As nouns the difference between urine and stool

is that urine is liquid excrement consisting of water, salts and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored in the bladder, then released through the urethra while stool is a seat for one person without a back or armrest.

As a verb stool is

to ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

urine

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (physiology) Liquid excrement consisting of water, salts and urea, which is made in the kidneys, stored in the bladder, then released through the urethra.
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
  • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine .}}

    Derived terms

    * urinal * urinary * urinate * urination * urinose * urinous

    Synonyms

    * See

    Anagrams

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    stool

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at stand.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
  • A footstool.
  • Feces; excrement.
  • (label) A decoy.
  • A seat; a seat with a back; a chair.
  • Throne.
  • (label) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; a toilet.
  • (label) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
  • (Totten)
  • Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
  • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    {{der3, footstool , stool pigeon , stoolie , window stool}}

    See also

    * chair * seat

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) (lena) stolo. See stolon.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (agriculture) To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
  • *1869 , Richard D. Blackmore,
  • *:I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills, of the larger and straighter stuff.
  • Anagrams

    * loots * tools ----