stool

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.; A seat for one person without a back or armrests. countable,uncountable
  2. Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil; stolon.”). alt-of,alternative,rare
    — The process of layering is well known: it consists in bending a young branch […] into the soil to a certain depth, and elevating the top part of it out of the soil in an upright direction; in time the buried part takes root, and the shoot becomes a perfect plant. The root which produces the young shoots for layering is called the stool. Stools are planted about six feet apart every way in a deep fresh soil. […] Stool. – The root of a tree which has been left in the ground, the produce of another tree, or shoot for saplings, underwood, &c.
  3. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.; A footstool. countable,uncountable
  4. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.; A seat with a back; a chair. Scotland,countable,dialectal,uncountable
  5. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.; A throne. Scotland,countable,dialectal,figuratively,literally
  6. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.; A royal seat; a chief's throne. Africa,West,countable,uncountable
  7. A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet. countable,dated,uncountable
  8. A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth. countable,uncountable
    — The ground in almost every part of it is covered with stools or stems of Oak, at not more than three feet stool from stool, and these not having been thinned since last cutting, are completely overburdened, and are evidently killing each other and dying for want of nourishment […]
  9. Feces, excrement. countable,uncountable
    — I provided the doctor with stool samples.
  10. A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling. countable,uncountable
    — Normal stooling is widely variant. Some infants only have one stool per day, especially those on formula feeding. Others may stool with each feeding. Such frequent stooling is common in breast-fed infants during the first month of life.
  11. A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds. archaic,countable,uncountable
  12. A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays. countable,uncountable
    — the fore backstay deadeyes and stool had to be lowered 2 feet
  13. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to. US,countable,dialectal,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To produce stool: to defecate.
    — Infrequent stooling in the first month of life is almost always due to insufficient intake of milk. A baby who is voiding but not stooling or gaining weight may not be receiving enough high fat hindmilk. Stooling frequency will correct itself with additional feeds or making sure the infant receives more hind milk at a feed.
  2. To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
    — I worked very hard in the copse of young ash, with my billhook and a shearing-knife; cutting out the saplings where they stooled too close together, making spars to keep for thatching, wall-crooks to drive into the cob, stiles for close sheep hurdles, and handles for rakes, and hoes, and two-bills, of the larger and straighter stuff.
  3. To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
    — Cutting back to the same position annually is usually referred to as pollarding; cutting nearly to the ground is usually called stooling. Both are good methods of controlling height and maintaining vigor on plants that would normally grow to a large size. […] Those [plants] that generate many small stems crowded together are difficult to pollard so they are normally stooled. Some people refer to stooling as coppice.

词形变化

stools plural stoole alternative stools present,singular,third-person stooling participle,present stooled participle,past stooled past stoole alternative stools plural stools present,singular,third-person stooling participle,present stooled participle,past stooled past

词汇关系

近义词
defecate
衍生词
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English stool, from Old English stōl (“chair, seat”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōl, from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz (“chair”), from Proto-Indo-European *stoh₂los (“frame, rack, stand”), from *steh₂- (“to stand”).
Cognates
Cognate with North Frisian stuul, stölj, Stööl (“chear”), Saterland Frisian Stoul (“chear”), West Frisian stoel (“chair, seat”), Dutch stoel (“chair”), German Stuhl (“chair”), Low German Stohl (“chair”), Luxembourgish Stull (“chair”), Vilamovian śtül (“chair”), Yiddish שתוהל (shsuhl), שטול (shtul, “chair”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish stol (“chair”), Faroese stólur (“chair”), Icelandic stóll (“chair”), Crimean Gothic stul (“seat”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍉𐌻𐍃 (stōls, “chair; throne”), Russian стул (stul, “chair”), Estonian tool (“chair”), Finnish tuoli (“chair”); also Breton and Cornish sevel (“to erect, rise; to build; to lift; to compose; to earn”), Irish sáil, sál (“heel”), Scottish Gaelic sàil (“heel”), Welsh sefyll (“to stand; to stop; to sit”), Latin sistō (“to set; to stop; to stand; to stabilise”), Umbrian 𐌔𐌄𐌔𐌕𐌖 (sestu, “to place”), Greek στέκω (stéko), στέκομαι (stékomai, “to stand up”), Albanian shtoj (“to add; to augment; to accumulate”), Lithuanian stálas (“table”), Old Prussian stallan (“table”), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, and Russian стол (stol, “table”), Czech stůl (“table”), Polish stół (“table”), Serbo-Croatian сто̑, сто̑л, stȏ, stȏl (“table”), Slovak stôl (“table”), Slovene stol (“chair”), Armenian երթալ (ertʻal), էթալ (ētʻal, “to go”), Central Kurdish ستوون (stûn, “column”), Pashto ستن (stən, “needle; awl; pin; syringe; post; hand; dragonfly”), Persian ایستادن (ēstādan / istâdan), وایسادن (vâysâdan), وایستادن (vâystâdan, “to stand up; to step; to stay”), ستون (sotun / sutūn, “column”), Northern Kurdish rawestîn (“to stand up”), stûn (“column”), Ossetian стын (styn, “to stand up”), Hittite 𒋾𒄑𒍣 (tiezzi, “to step; to place oneself”), Tocharian A ṣtäm- (“to stand”), Tocharian B stäm- (“to stand”), Sanskrit तिष्ठति (tiṣṭhati, “to stand; to stay”). More at stand.
The medical use derives from sense 2 (seat used for defecation).
词源 2
From Latin stolo. See stolon.
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