Definitions for stool
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stoolnoun

   a simple seat without a back or arms

2. fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, ordure, dejectionnoun

   solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

3. stoolnoun

   (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings

4. toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throneverb

   a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

5. stoolverb

   lure with a stool, as of wild fowl

6. stoolverb

   react to a decoy, of wildfowl

7. stool, tillerverb

   grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers

8. 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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stoolnoun

   A seat for one person without a back or armrest.

2. stoolnoun

   A footstool.

3. stoolnoun

   Feces; excrement.

4. stoolnoun

   A decoy.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. STOOLnoun

   Etymology: stols, Gothick; stol , Saxon; stoel, Dutch.

   1. A seat without a back, so distinguished from a chair.

   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.

   2. Evacuation by purgative medicines.

   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.

   3. Stool of Repentance, in the kirks of Scotland, is somewhat analogous to the pillory. It is elevated above the congregation. In some places there may be a seat in it; but it is generally without, and the person stands therein who has been guilty of fornication, for three Sundays in the forenoon; and after sermon is called upon by name and surname, the beadle or kirk-officer bringing the offender, if refractory, forwards to his post; and then the preacher proceeds to admonition. Here too are set to publick view adulterers; only these are habited in a coarse canvas, analogous to a hairy or monastick vest, with a hood to it, which they call the sack or sackcloth, and that every Sunday throughout a year, or longer.

   Unequal and unreasonable judgment of things brings many a great man to the stool of repentance. Roger L'Estrange.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stool

   A stool is a piece of furniture, typically without a back or armrests, consisting of a single seat and legs. It is usually used for sitting or sometimes as a small table. In a medical context, stool refers to fecal matter excreted from the digestive tract via the anus.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Stoolnoun

   a plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil

2. Stoolverb

   to ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers

3. Stoolnoun

   a single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses

4. Stoolnoun

   a seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels

5. Stoolnoun

   a stool pigeon, or decoy bird

6. Stoolnoun

   a small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays

7. Stoolnoun

   a bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool

8. Stoolnoun

   a bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool

9. Stoolnoun

   material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to

10. Etymology: [L. stolo. See Stolon.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. stool

   A minor channel abaft the main channels, for the dead-eyes of the backstays. (See BACKSTAY-STOOLS.)

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1. 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  

Matched Categories

1. • Forestry
   • Grow
   • Lure
   • React
   • Seat
   • Stump

British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'stool' in Nouns Frequency: #2793

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of stool in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of stool in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of stool in a Sentence

1. Euan Graham:

   A port is the missing leg of the stool in U.S. military engagement with Australia.

2. Elizabeth Blaney:

   The colon's main job is to reabsorb water. If you're a bit dehydrated, your stool will be harder and more difficult to pass.

3. Shane Dormady:

   I think you have a subset of patients who are being screened earlier with colonoscopies; you have advancing technology where we can potentially detect tumor cell DNA in the stool sample, which is leading to earlier diagnosis. And sometimes that effect will skew statistics and make it look like the incidence is really on the rise, but deeper analysis shows you that part of that is due to earlier detection and more screening, so that could be one facet of the equation.

4. Lauren Streicher:

   Clearly, if you take stool and put it on your urethra, you're going to get an infection.

5. TLHAKA TLHANKANE:

   Most people live sad lives because they have they have succeeded in designing and perfecting a path to sorrow thinking they are building a road to happiness. I will be happy if I befriend or even marry this rich fool, if I buy this worthless tool, if I sit on this corrupted stool, if I drown and kill myself in a debt pool, if I wear this dirty wool, if I ride on this dangerous bull.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=stool
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Stool
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=stool
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stool
6. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=stool
7. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=stool