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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A simple seat without a back or arms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("stool" is a kind of...):
seat (furniture that is designed for sitting on)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stool"):
campstool (a folding stool)
cutty stool (a low stool; formerly in Scotland, a seat in a church where an offender was publicly rebuked)
footrest; footstool; ottoman; tuffet (a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person)
milking stool (low three-legged stool with a half round seat; used to sit on while milking a cow)
music stool; piano stool (a stool for piano players; usually adjustable in height)
step stool (a stool that has one or two steps that fold under the seat)
taboret; tabouret (a low stool in the shape of a drum)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
Synonyms:
can; commode; crapper; pot; potty; stool; throne; toilet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("stool" is a kind of...):
plumbing fixture (a fixture for the distribution and use of water in a building)
Meronyms (parts of "stool"):
toilet seat (the hinged seat on a toilet)
toilet bowl (the bowl of a toilet that can be flushed with water)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stool"):
potty chair; potty seat (toilet consisting of a small seat used by young children)
flush toilet; lavatory (a toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it)
flushless toilet (a toilet that relies on bacteria to break down waste matter (instead of using water))
Holonyms ("stool" is a part of...):
bathroom (a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet)
bathroom; can; john; lav; lavatory; privy; toilet (a room or building equipped with one or more toilets)
Derivation:
stool (have a bowel movement)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("stool" is a kind of...):
stump; tree stump (the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled)
Domain category:
forestry (the science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber)
Derivation:
stool (grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
Synonyms:
BM; dejection; faecal matter; faeces; fecal matter; feces; ordure; stool
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("stool" is a kind of...):
body waste; excrement; excreta; excretion; excretory product (waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stool"):
dog do; dog shit; dog turd; doggy do (fecal droppings from a dog)
crap; dirt; poop; shit; shite; turd (obscene terms for feces)
droppings; dung; muck (fecal matter of animals)
meconium (thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child)
melaena; melena (abnormally dark tarry feces containing blood (usually from gastrointestinal bleeding))
Derivation:
stool (have a bowel movement)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Have a bowel movement
Example:
The dog had made in the flower beds
Synonyms:
ca-ca; crap; defecate; make; shit; stool; take a crap; take a shit
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "stool" is one way to...):
egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)
Verb group:
make; make water; micturate; pass water; pee; pee-pee; piddle; piss; puddle; relieve oneself; spend a penny; take a leak; urinate; wee; wee-wee (eliminate urine)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stool"):
dung (defecate; used of animals)
Sentence frames:
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Derivation:
stool (a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination)
stool (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
Synonyms:
stool; tiller
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "stool" is one way to...):
acquire; develop; get; grow; produce (come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes))
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Derivation:
stool ((forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings)
Sense 3
Meaning:
React to a decoy, of wildfowl
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Hypernyms (to "stool" is one way to...):
react; respond (show a response or a reaction to something)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 4
Meaning:
Lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "stool" is one way to...):
entice; lure; tempt (provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Context examples:
Analysis of stool samples helped to calculate calories excreted rather than burned or stored.
(Whole Grains Deliver on Health Benefits, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
Now place your feet on the stool, to keep them out of the wet.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The team analyzed metabolites in some of the infant’s stool samples.
(Infant gut microbes linked to allergy, asthma risk, NIH)
The first said, “Who has been sitting on my stool?”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Investigators then analyzed microbes in infant stool samples, finding many differences between the stool of infants who were allergic to milk and those who were not.
(Gut microbes from healthy infants block milk allergy development in mice, National Institutes of Health)
Constipation is when stool becomes hard, dry, and difficult to pass and bowel movements occur less often than normal.
(Aganglionic megacolon, NCI Dictionary)
Using a mouse model of alcohol-associated liver disease, mice were transplanted with stool from cytolysin-positive alcoholic hepatitis patients and treated with a cocktail of bacteriophages targeting the cytolytic E. faecalis strains.
(Bacteriophage therapy may ease severity of alcoholic hepatitis, National Institutes of Health)
I found him sitting out in the middle of the floor on his stool, a pose which is generally indicative of some mental energy on his part.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The capsule endoscope is passed from the body in the stool.
(Capsule endoscope, NCI Dictionary)
A substance, such as fiber in food, that adds bulk and water to stools so that they can pass more easily through the intestines (lower part of the digestive tract).
(Bulk-forming agent, NCI Dictionary)
