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Stoop (noun)
The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
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Stoop (noun)
The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
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Stoop (noun)
A stooping, bent position of the body
“The old man walked with a stoop.”
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Stoop (noun)
An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
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Stoop (noun)
A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
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Stoop (noun)
A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon.
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Stoop (verb)
To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
“He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.”
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Stoop (verb)
To lower oneself; to demean or do 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?”
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Stoop (verb)
Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
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Stoop (verb)
To cause to incline downward; to slant.
“to stoop a cask of liquor”
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Stoop (verb)
To cause to submit; to prostrate.
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Stoop (verb)
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
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Stoop (verb)
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
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Stoop (verb)
To degrade.
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Bend (verb)
To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
“If you bend the pipe too far, it will break.”
“Don’t bend your knees.”
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Bend (verb)
To become curved.
“Look at the trees bending in the wind.”
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Bend (verb)
To cause to change direction.
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Bend (verb)
To change direction.
“The road bends to the right”
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Bend (verb)
To be inclined; to direct itself.
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Bend (verb)
To stoop.
“He bent down to pick up the pieces.”
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Bend (verb)
To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
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Bend (verb)
To force to submit.
“They bent me to their will.”
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Bend (verb)
To submit.
“I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.”
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Bend (verb)
To apply to a task or purpose.
“He bent the company’s resources to gaining market share.”
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Bend (verb)
To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
“He bent to the goal of gaining market share.”
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Bend (verb)
To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
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Bend (verb)
To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
“Bend the sail to the yard.”
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Bend (verb)
To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
“You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.”
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Bend (verb)
To swing the body when rowing.
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Bend (noun)
A curve.
“There’s a sharp bend in the road ahead.”
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Bend (noun)
Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
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Bend (noun)
A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
“A diver who stays deep for too long must ascend very slowly in order to prevent the bends.”
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Bend (noun)
One of the ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
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Bend (noun)
Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
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Bend (noun)
In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
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Bend (noun)
Hard, indurated clay; bind.
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Bend (noun)
The thickest and strongest planks in a ship’s sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
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Bend (noun)
The frames or ribs that form the ship’s body from the keel to the top of the sides.
“the midship bends”
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Bend (noun)
A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.