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Vestibule vs Stoop - What's the difference?

vestibule | stoop |

As nouns the difference between vestibule and stoop

is that vestibule is a passage, hall or room, such as a lobby, between the outer door and the interior of a building while stoop is the staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.

As a verb stoop is

to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward.

vestibule

Noun

(en noun)
  • (architecture) A passage, hall or room, such as a lobby, between the outer door and the interior of a building.
  • * 1813 , , Volume 3, Chapter 9,
  • Lydia's voice was heard in the vestibule ; the door was thrown open, and she ran into the room.
  • * 1913', '' ,
  • The purpose of the vestibule , at least in western Europe, was not to provide a resting-place for penitents, but to deaden the noise outside.
  • * 1929 April, ,
  • Some instinct warned Armitage that what was taking place was not a thing for unfortified eyes to see, so he brushed back the crowd with authority as he unlocked the vestibule door.
  • (rail transport) An enclosed entrance at the end of a railway passenger car.
  • * 1912 , Electric railway journal , Volume XL, Number 14, page 556,
  • The exit side of the front vestibule contains a sliding door.
  • (senseid)(medicine, anatomy, by extension) Any of a number of body cavities, serving as or resembling an entrance to another bodily space.
  • * 1838 , Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal , Volumes 17-18, page 333,
  • The membrane of the vestibule in this animal is thrown into three folds. The margins of these folds, looking towards the vestibule, are approximated, and, following the law which is now known to regulate the formation of hollow tubes, doubtless unite and coalesce in the next higher species of fish.
  • * 1920 , Jacob Parsons Schaeffer, The Nose, paranasal sinuses, nasolacrimal passageways, and olfactory organ in man; a genetic, developmental, and anatomico-physiological consideration , page 73,
  • The Vestibule' (vestibulum nasi). — The paired ' vestibule may be considered an antechamber to the nasal fossa.
  • * 2001 , René Malek, Cleft Lip and Palate: Lesions, Pathophysiology and Primary Treatment , page 79,
  • The incision of the mucosa over the premaxilla is traced a millimetre or two from the furrow that marks the bottom of the barely-defined vestibule .

    Derived terms

    * vestibular * vestibuled * vestibule school

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    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.
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  • , 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.