What does Stool mean?
Definitions for Stool
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Princeton's WordNet
stoolnoun
a simple seat without a back or arms
fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, ordure, dejectionnoun
solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
stoolnoun
(forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throneverb
a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
stoolverb
lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
stoolverb
react to a decoy, of wildfowl
stool, tillerverb
grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, makeverb
have a bowel movement
"The dog had made in the flower beds"
Wiktionary
stoolnoun
A seat for one person without a back or armrest.
stoolnoun
A footstool.
stoolnoun
Feces; excrement.
stoolnoun
A decoy.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
STOOLnoun
Etymology: stols, Gothick; stol , Saxon; stoel, Dutch.
If a chair be defined a seat for a single person, with a back belonging to it, then a stool is a seat for a single person without a back. Isaac Watts, Logick.
Thou fearful fool,
Why takest not of the same fruit of gold?
Ne sittest down on that same silver stool,
To rest thy weary person in the shadow cold? Fa. Queen.Now which were wise, and which were fools?
Poor Alma sits between two stools:
The more she reads, the more perplext. Matthew Prior.There be medicines that move stools, and not urine; some other urine, and not stools: those that purge by stool, are such as enter not at all, or little, into the mesentery veins; but either at the first are not digestible by the stomach, and therefore move immediately downwards to the guts; or else are afterwards rejected by the mesentery veins, and so turn likewise downwards to the guts. Francis Bacon, Natural History.
The peristaltick motion, or repeated changes of contraction and dilatation, is not in the lower guts, else one would have a continual needing of going to stool. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.
Unequal and unreasonable judgment of things brings many a great man to the stool of repentance. Roger L'Estrange.
Webster Dictionary
Stoolnoun
a plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil
Stoolverb
to ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers
Stoolnoun
a single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses
Stoolnoun
a seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels
Stoolnoun
a stool pigeon, or decoy bird
Stoolnoun
a small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays
Stoolnoun
a bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool
Stoolnoun
a bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool
Stoolnoun
material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to
Etymology: [L. stolo. See Stolon.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Stool
stōōl, n. a seat without a back: a low bench for the feet or for kneeling on: the seat used in evacuating the bowels: the act of evacuating the bowels, also that which is evacuated: a root of any kind from which sprouts shoot up: a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened as a decoy for wild birds.—n. Stool′-pi′geon, a decoy-pigeon: a gambler's decoy.—Stool of repentance, same as Cutty-stool (q.v.).—Fall between two stools, to lose both of two things between the choice of which one was hesitating. [A.S. stól, Ger. stuhl; cf. Ger. stellen, to place.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
stool
A minor channel abaft the main channels, for the dead-eyes of the backstays. (See BACKSTAY-STOOLS.)
Editors Contribution
stool
A type of piece of furniture and product created and designed in various colors, materials, mechanisms, shapes, sizes and styles.
He bought 2 new stools for the breakfast bar.
Submitted by MaryC on May 3, 2015
British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Stool' in Nouns Frequency: #2793
Anagrams for Stool »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Stool in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Stool in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of Stool in a Sentence
Our suspicion is that patients selecting colonoscopy often do so because they value its high sensitivity for polyps and cancer, and don’t mind the invasiveness and inconvenience, and that patients selecting stool blood tests often do so because the test is more convenient.
All my bottles started rattling, then one great big boom, i almost fell off the stool.
We have not been able to find a cause for the majority of Most AFM cases, right now, we know that poliovirus is not the cause of Most AFM cases. CDC has tested every stool specimen from every AFM patient. None of the specimens have tested positive for poliovirus.
The works of women are symbolical. We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight, producing what? A pair of slippers, sir, to put on when you're weary -- or a stool. To stumble over and vex you... curse that stool! Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean and sleep, and dream of something we are not, but would be for your sake. Alas, alas! This hurts most, this... that, after all, we are paid the worth of our work, perhaps.
Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them.
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- stoelAfrikaans
- برازArabic
- tamboretCatalan, Valencian
- stolice, stoličkaCzech
- afføringDanish
- Stuhlgang, Exkrement, Hocker, Exkret, Schemel, Stuhl, KotGerman
- σκαμνί, σκίμπους, κόπραναGreek
- taburetoEsperanto
- excremento, heces, taburete, sillaSpanish
- roe, pink, jalapink, pukk, väljaheide, taburet, iste, ekskrement, järiEstonian
- palli, jakkara, ulosteFinnish
- skarn, krakkurFaroese
- tabouret, tabouret-bar, selleFrench
- tallo, mesoGalician
- तिपाईHindi
- széklet, szék, bárszék, zsámolyHungarian
- աթոռակArmenian
- taburetoIdo
- kollurIcelandic
- sgabelloItalian
- ជើងម៉ាKhmer
- 발판Korean
- tempus advenerit, excrēmentumLatin
- HockerLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- табуре́тка, сто́лица, ко́клица, сто́лчеMacedonian
- krakkNorwegian
- barkruk, kruk, stoelgangDutch
- krakkNorwegian Nynorsk
- stołek, taboretPolish
- banquinho, banqueta, fezes, fez, cocô, merda, tamborete, bancoPortuguese
- taburet, scaunRomanian
- табуре́т, табуре́тка, стул, прима́нкаRussian
- столица, stolicaSerbo-Croatian
- stolica, stolička, stolčekSlovak
- avföring, pallSwedish
- jarari, kirotoSwahili
- ตั่งThai
- oturakTurkish
- בענקלYiddish
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