Word Meanings - STOOP - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door
Additional info about word: STOOP
Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STOOP)
- Abase
- Degrade
- disgrace
- bring low
- reduce
- humble
- demean
- stoop
- humiliate
- depress
- lower
- sink
- dishonor
- Bend
- Curve
- deviate
- incline
- tend
- swerve
- diverge
- mold
- persuade
- influence
- bias
- dispose
- direct
- subordinate to
- lean
- deflect
- bow
- condescend
- yield
- submit
- Condescend
- Stoop
- descend
- deign
- vouchsafe
- Cower
- Shrink
- crouch
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of STOOP)
- Straighten
- unbend
- rectilineate
- Trend
- diverge
- ascend
- deter
- rise
- indispose
- disincline
- Hoist
- raise
- heighten
- exalt
- increase
- aggrandize
- elevate
Related words: (words related to STOOP)
- BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
See WORM - BROKERY
The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe. - BREVIARY
summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A - BRITTLELY
In a brittle manner. Sherwood. - BRAND IRON
1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron. - BRAZIL NUT
An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell. - DISPOSEMENT
Disposal. Goodwin. - BRAST
To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - DEMEANURE
Behavior. Spenser. - DIRECT CURRENT
A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the - BROID
To braid. Chaucer. - BROIDERER
One who embroiders. - BRUISEWORT
A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey. - ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
See ASCENDENCY - DIRECTER
One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel. - BRAWNER
A boor killed for the table. - BRACHIOGANOID
One of the Brachioganoidei. - BRANCHIOSTOMA
The lancelet. See Amphioxus. - BRITANNIC
Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty. - BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - OPPROBRIOUS
1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered - WINDFLOWER
The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - TECTIBRANCHIA
See TECTIBRANCHIATA - CAMBRIC
1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures - BRASIER; BRAZIER
An artificer who works in brass. Franklin. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - OVERBROW
To hang over like a brow; to impend over. Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - CHICKEN-BREASTED
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. - TOOTHBRUSH
A brush for cleaning the teeth.