stoop

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A stooping, bent position of the body.

   “The old man walked with a stoop.”

2. isim An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.

   “At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarry”

3. fiil To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.

   “He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.”

4. fiil 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?”

5. fiil Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.

   “the holy eagle Stoop'd, as to foote vs: his Ascension is More sweet then our blest Fields”

6. fiil To cause to incline downward; to slant.

   “to stoop a cask of liquor”

7. fiil To cause to submit; to prostrate.

   “Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears / Are stoopt by death; and many left alive.”

8. fiil To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.

   “The grasse stoops not, she treads on it so light”

9. fiil To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.

   “Where men of great wealth do stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.”

10. isim A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout.
11. isim The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.

    “Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops, with seats, at its door.”

12. isim The threshold of a doorway; a doorstep.

    “A short flight of iron steps leads up to it and a storm door is built over the stoop, forming a little vestibule, and serving to keep out the gusts.”

13. isim A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.