Stoop vs. Bend

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  • Stoop (noun)

    The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.

  • Stoop (noun)

    The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.

  • Stoop (noun)

    A stooping, bent position of the body

    “The old man walked with a stoop.”

  • Stoop (noun)

    An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.

  • Stoop (noun)

    A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.

  • Stoop (noun)

    A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon.

  • 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.”

  • 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?”

  • Stoop (verb)

    Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.

  • Stoop (verb)

    To cause to incline downward; to slant.

    “to stoop a cask of liquor”

  • Stoop (verb)

    To cause to submit; to prostrate.

  • Stoop (verb)

    To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.

  • Stoop (verb)

    To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.

  • Stoop (verb)

    To degrade.

  • 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.”

  • Bend (verb)

    To become curved.

    “Look at the trees bending in the wind.”

  • Bend (verb)

    To cause to change direction.

  • Bend (verb)

    To change direction.

    “The road bends to the right”

  • Bend (verb)

    To be inclined; to direct itself.

  • Bend (verb)

    To stoop.

    “He bent down to pick up the pieces.”

  • Bend (verb)

    To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.

  • Bend (verb)

    To force to submit.

    “They bent me to their will.”

  • Bend (verb)

    To submit.

    “I am bending to my desire to eat junk food.”

  • Bend (verb)

    To apply to a task or purpose.

    “He bent the company’s resources to gaining market share.”

  • Bend (verb)

    To apply oneself to a task or purpose.

    “He bent to the goal of gaining market share.”

  • Bend (verb)

    To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.

  • 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.”

  • Bend (verb)

    To smoothly change the pitch of a note.

    “You should bend the G slightly sharp in the next measure.”

  • Bend (verb)

    To swing the body when rowing.

  • Bend (noun)

    A curve.

    “There’s a sharp bend in the road ahead.”

  • Bend (noun)

    Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.

  • 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.”

  • 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.

  • Bend (noun)

    Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.

  • Bend (noun)

    In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.

  • Bend (noun)

    Hard, indurated clay; bind.

  • 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.

  • Bend (noun)

    The frames or ribs that form the ship’s body from the keel to the top of the sides.

    “the midship bends”

  • Bend (noun)

    A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.

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