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Stool
- noun - (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings
- a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
- a simple seat without a back or arms
- grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers
- have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds"
- lure with a stool, as of wild fowl
- react to a decoy, of wildfowl
- solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels
Stoop
- noun - an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward
- basin for holy water
- bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
- carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward; "The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane"
- debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way; "I won't stoop to reading other people's mail"
- deign
- descend swiftly, as if on prey; "The eagle stooped on the mice in the field"
- sag, bend, bend over or down; "the rocks stooped down over the hiking path"
- small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house
Stoor
- - To rise in clouds, as dust.
Stope
- - A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
Stops
- noun -
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes;
- a brief stay in the course of a journey;
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it;
- a gambling card game
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens;
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;
- a restraint that checks the motion of something;
- a spot where something halts or pauses;
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube;
- halts
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;
- the act of stopping something;
- the event of something ending;
- the state of inactivity following an interruption;
Store
- noun - a depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks"
- a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services; "he bought it at a shop on Cape Cod"
- a supply of something available for future use; "he brought back a large store of Cuban cigars"
- an electronic memory device; "a memory and the CPU form the central part of a computer to which peripherals are attached"
- find a place for and put away for storage; "where should we stow the vegetables?"; "I couldn't store all the books in the attic so I sold some"
- keep or lay aside for future use; "store grain for the winter"; "The bear stores fat for the period of hibernation when he doesn't eat"
Stork
- noun - large mostly Old World wading birds typically having white-and-black plumage
Storm
- noun - a direct and violent assault on a stronghold
- a violent commotion or disturbance; "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was only a tempest in a teapot"
- a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning
- attack by storm; attack suddenly
- behave violently, as if in state of a great anger
- blow hard; "It was storming all night"
- rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning; "If it storms, we'll need shelter"
- take by force; "Storm the fort"
Story
- noun - a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"
- a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events; "he writes stories for the magazines"
- a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"
- a short account of the news; "the report of his speech"; "the story was on the 11 o'clock news"; "the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious"
- a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?"
- a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"