stoop
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
A stooping, bent position of the body.
The old man walked with a stoop.
- 2.
An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
- 3.
A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout.
- 4.
(Canada, New Jersey, New York, also)(architecture, chiefly New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, also Canada) The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
...the entrance being at the side of the house and reached by a low front stoop with four or five risers...
Đồng nghĩa: porch, verandah
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(US)(architecture, US) The threshold of a doorway; a doorstep.
Đồng nghĩa: step, doorstep
- 6.
(dialectal)(dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
Động từ
verb- 1.
To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.
- 2.
To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing 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?
- 3.
(intransitive)Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
- 4.
(transitive)To cause to incline downward; to slant.
to stoop a cask of liquor
- 5.
(transitive)To cause to submit; to prostrate.
- 6.
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
- 7.
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
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From Middle English stoupen, from Old English stūpian (to bow, bend), from *stūpōn, from Proto-Germanic *stūpōną, *stūpijaną (to stand out), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (to push, butt, knock). Compare steep. Cognate with stuipen, stúpa. Related also to stēpa, steypa.