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stool

noun
/stuːl/

Etymology

From Middle English stool, stole, stol, from Old English stōl (“chair, seat, throne”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōl, from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz (“chair”) (compare West Frisian stoel (“chair, seat”), Dutch stoel (“chair”), German Stuhl (“chair”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish stol (“chair”), Faroese stólur (“chair”), Icelandic stóll (“chair”), Finnish tuoli (“chair”), Estonian tool (“chair”)), from Proto-Indo-European *stoh₂los (compare Lithuanian stálas, Russian стол (stol, “table”), Russian стул (stul, “chair”), Serbo-Croatian stol (“table”), Slovene stol (“chair”), Albanian kështallë (“crutch”), Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “block of stone used as a prop or buttress to a wall”)), from *steh₂- (“to stand”). More at stand. The medical use derives from sense 2 (seat used for defecation).

  1. inherited from *stoh₂los✻
  2. inherited from *stōlaz✻ — “chair”
  3. inherited from *stōl✻
  4. inherited from stōl — “chair, seat, throne”
  5. inherited from stool

Definitions

  1. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.

  2. A close-stool

    A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.

  3. A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a…

    A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.

  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. Feces, excrement.

      • I provided the doctor with stool samples.
      • Two days prior to the consultation, an abdominal radiograph was done because the patient hadn't stooled in a week. No signs of obstruction and no abnormal accumulations of stool were found.

    2. A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.

      • 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.

    3. A decoy

      A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.

    4. A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.

      • the fore backstay deadeyes and stool had to be lowered 2 feet

    5. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

    6. To produce stool

      To produce stool: to defecate.

      • 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.
      • Two days prior to the consultation, an abdominal radiograph was done because the patient hadn't stooled in a week. No signs of obstruction and no abnormal accumulations of stool were found.

    7. To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to…

      To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.

    8. Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its…

      Alternative form of stole (“plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil; stolon.”).

    9. To ramify

      To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.

      • The plants stooled out well, and yielded a heavy cutting of rather tough cane. In its young state it should make good silage.

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Derived

bar stool, birth stool, birthstool, Bristol stool chart, Bristol stool scale, camp stool, campstool, close stool, closestool, cucking stool, cutler's stool, cuttystool, destool, donkey stool, ducking stool, enstool, footstool, frith stool, frithstool, groom of the stool, joint-stool, kickstool, litany stool, necessary stool, nightstool, paddock-stool, padstool, pass a stool, pass stool, pedal-stool, pedal stool, petal stool, piano stool, pining stool, pixie-stool, pixy-stool, potty stool, queening stool, rocking stool, sauna stool · +20 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for stool. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA