Definizione monolingua

stoop

stoop (third-person singular simple present stoops, present participle stooping, simple past and past participle stooped)

1. To bend oneself, or ones head, forward and downward.

   He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes.

   • 2010 December 28, Kevin Darlin, “West Brom 1 - 3 Blackburn”, BBC:

     Pedersen took a short corner and El-Hadji Diouf was given time to send in a cross for Mame Diouf to stoop and head home from close range.

2. To lower oneself; to demean or do something below ones 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.
   • 1882 [1875], Thomas Bewick, James Reiveley, William Harvey, The Parlour Menagerie, 4th ed., p. 63:

     Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.

stoop (plural stoops)

1. (US, Canada) A small porch, unroofed platform, or raised veranda leading to a main entrance.

   The workers made a stoop in front of the door.

2. (UK) The threshold of ones doorway, a doorstep

Definizione dizionario stoop

curvarsi

abbassare

abbassarsi

chinare

chinarsi

curvatura

inchinare

inchinarsi

inclinarsi

inclinazione

piegarsi

scendere

Altri significati:

To bend oneself, or one's head, forward and downward.

(to) stoop

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

(US, Canada) A small porch, unroofed platform, or raised veranda leading to a main entrance.

A stooping (ie. bent, see the "Verb" section below) position of the body

to lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals

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

To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.

(UK) The threshold of one's doorway, a doorstep

small porch