stoop

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /stuːp/    美 /stup/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A stooping, bent position of the body.
    — The old man walked with a stoop.
  2. A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout.
  3. The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence. Canada,New-Jersey,New-York,also
    — Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops, with seats, at its door.
  4. A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine. dialectal
  5. 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
  6. The threshold of a doorway; a doorstep. US
    — 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.
动词 v.
  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. Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey. intransitive
    — the holy eagle Stoop'd, as to foote vs: his Ascension is More sweet then our blest Fields
  4. To cause to incline downward; to slant. transitive
    — to stoop a cask of liquor
  5. To cause to submit; to prostrate. transitive
    — Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears / Are stoopt by death; and many left alive.
  6. 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
  7. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
    — Where men of great wealth do stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.

词形变化

stoops plural stoops present,singular,third-person stooping participle,present stooped participle,past stooped past stoops plural stoup alternative stowp alternative stoops plural stoops plural stoup alternative

词汇关系

近义词
bend down crouch squat
衍生词
poop stoop stoop labor stoopwork stoopy astoop stoop and roop stooper stoopless stoopball
相关词
stoep

词源

词源 1
From Middle English stoupen, from Old English stūpian (“to bow, bend”), from Proto-West Germanic *stūpōn, from Proto-Germanic *stūpōną, *stūpijaną (“to stand out”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, butt, knock”). Compare steep. Cognate with Dutch stuipen (“to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward”), Old Norse stúpa (“to stoop”). Related also to Old Frisian stēpa (“to help”), Old Norse steypa (“to cause to stoop, cast down, overthrow”).
词源 2
From Middle English stope, stoupe, from Old Norse staup (“dip, well, cup”), from Proto-Germanic *staupą, related to the verb *staupijaną (“to steep”). Related to Old English stēap (“drinking vessel, cup, flagon, stoop”).
词源 3
Borrowed from Dutch stoep (“platform", "pavement”). Doublet of stoep. Cognate with step.
词源 4
From Middle English stoupe, stulpe, from Old Norse stólpi (“post, pillar”), from Proto-Germanic *stulpô.
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