stool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stuːl/
ipa: /stʉl/
rhymes: -uːl
Forms: form: stools
Etymology: From Middle English stool, stole, stol, from Old English stōl (“chair, seat, throne”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōl, from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz (“chair”) (compare West Frisian stoel, Dutch stoel, German Stuhl, Swedish/Norwegian/Danish stol, Finnish tuoli, Estonian tool), from Proto-Indo-European *stoh₂los (compare Lithuanian stálas, Russian стол (stol, “table”), Russian стул (stul, “chair”), Serbo-Croatian stol (“table”), Slovene stol (“chair”), Albanian kështallë (“crutch”), Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “block of stone used as a prop or buttress to a wall”)), from *steh₂- (“to stand”). More at stand.
The medical use derives from sense 2 (seat used for defecation).
Senses: glosses: A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
A seat for one person without a back or armrests.
glosses: A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
A footstool.
glosses: A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
A seat with a back; a chair.
glosses: A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
A throne.
glosses: A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
A royal seat; a chief's throne.
synonyms: word: bedpan
word: can
word: chamber
word: chamber pot
word: chemical toilet
word: commode
word: Cousin John
word: crapper
word: gazunder
word: guzunder
word: honey bucket
word: honeypot
word: Jerry
word: jerry
word: john
word: johnny
word: jordan
word: latrine
word: mingo
word: necessary stool
word: pan
word: pee pot
word: pisspot
word: piss pot
word: po
word: pot
word: potty
word: potty-chair
word: shitbucket
word: shitcan
word: shitpot
word: slop bucket
word: stool
word: stool of easement
word: throne
word: thunder mug
word: toilet
word: urinal
word: big white telephone
word: bog
word: can
word: commode
word: crapper
word: crapper trapper
word: donniker
word: dunny
word: head
word: highway to hell
word: jacks
word: jakes
word: john
word: khazi
word: latrine
word: lav
word: pisser
word: pooper
word: porcelain god
word: porcelain goddess
word: pot
word: potty
word: privy
word: Quincy
word: shitcan
word: shitpot
word: shitter
word: stool
word: throne
word: toilet
word: toot
word: bathroom
word: latrine
word: necessarium
word: toilet
word: toilet room
word: urinal
word: water closet
word: WC
word: cloaca
word: closet
word: jacques
word: kocay
word: siege
word: cludgie
word: neddy
word: netty
word: shield
word: six
word: facilities
word: ladies and gentlemen
word: lavatory
word: lavabo
word: necessary
word: necessary room
word: office
word: office of ease
word: place
word: potty
word: privy
word: small room
word: smallest room
word: throne room
word: cottage
word: geography
word: House of Lords
word: khazi
word: usual offices
word: restroom
word: teahouse
word: tearoom
word: washroom
raw_tags: used in Canada
word: closet of decency
word: closet of ease
word: house of office
word: necessary place
word: purging place
word: vault
word: withdraught
word: wardrobe
word: shitter
word: urination station
word: bog
word: carsey
word: crapper
word: karzy
word: lats
word: lav
word: lavvy
word: loo
word: thunderbox
raw_tags: in Australia
word: can
word: john
word: johnny
word: bogger
word: brasco
word: dike
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: dunny
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: jacks
word: jakes
glosses: A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.
examples: text: The ground in almost every part of it is covered with stools or stems of Oak, at not more than three feet stool from stool, and these not having been thinned since last cutting, are completely overburdened, and are evidently killing each other and dying for want of nourishment […]
ref: 1827, Robert Monteath, Miscellaneous Reports on Woods and Plantations, Shewing a Method to Plant, Rear, and Recover all Woods, Plantations and Timber Trees on every Soil and Situation in Britain and Ireland …, Dundee: Printed and sold by James Chalmers [et al.], →OCLC, page 51:
text: With stool bedding, the plants are pruned back to the ground in the dormant season, and the shoots that form in the spring have juvenile characteristics and are called "juvenile reversion shoots." Stool bedding or stool bed layering is a common practice for the production of rootstocks of apple. […] The closer the apical meristem is to the roots of the plant, the more juvenile it is likely to be. This feature is exploited by techniques such as hedging or stool bedding that employ severe pruning to decrease the distance between the new growth and the root system, thus acting to rejuvenate the plant and benefit from the ease of rooting that is characteristic of the juvenile phase.
ref: 2011, Caula A. Beyl, Robert N. Trigiano, editors, Plant Propagation Concepts and Laboratory Exercises, 2nd edition, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, pages 88 and 154:
text: A coppice may be large, in which case trees, usually ash (Fraxinus) or maple (Acer) are cut, leaving a massive stool from which up to 10 trunks arise; or small, in which case trees, usually hazel (Corylus), hawthorn (Crataegus), or willow (Salix), are cut to leave small, underground stools producing many short stems. […] One consequence of coppicing is that the stool enlarges because each subsequent growth of shoots occurs on its outside. The diameter of a stool is thus directly related to its age. […] stool 1. A tree stump that is capable of producing new shoots. 2. The permanent base of a *coppiced tree.
ref: 2012, Michael Allaby, editor, A Dictionary of Plant Sciences, 3rd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 125 and 486:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
examples: text: I provided the doctor with stool samples.
text: The diagnostic criteria for infant dyschezia are at least 10 minutes of straining and crying before successful passage of soft stools in an otherwise healthy infant less than six months of age.
In a child with infant dyschezia, physical examination and stool examination are normal.
ref: 2002, Paul Hyman, “Infant Dyschezia: Looking out for Number Two”, in International Foundation for Gastrointestinal Disorders, number 823:
text: Two days prior to the consultation, an abdominal radiograph was done because the patient hadn't stooled in a week. No signs of obstruction and no abnormal accumulations of stool were found.
ref: 2014, David R. Fleisher, Management of Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders in Children: Biopsychosocial Concepts for Clinical Practice, New York, N.Y.: Springer, →ISBN, page 79:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: boo-boo
word: boom-boom
word: caca
word: cack
word: chocolate
word: chocolate hot dog
word: crap
word: crud
word: danna
word: dejection
word: dirt
word: do do
word: doo-doo
word: doody
word: dook
word: dookie
word: dooky
word: droppings
word: dump
word: dumplings
word: dung
word: Eartha
word: Eartha Kitt
word: excrement
word: faeces
word: faex
word: fecal matter
word: feces
word: flop
word: fudge
word: gong
word: guano
word: ish
word: jobby
word: log
word: merd
word: muck
word: nature
word: night soil
word: number two
word: ordure
word: poo
word: pooh
word: poop
word: poopie
word: poo-poo
word: poopy
word: pure
word: purging
word: scat
word: sharn
word: shit
word: shite
word: soil
word: stool
word: thost
word: tom tit
word: turd
word: waste
glosses: Feces, excrement.
examples: text: Normal stooling is widely variant. Some infants only have one stool per day, especially those on formula feeding. Others may stool with each feeding. Such frequent stooling is common in breast-fed infants during the first month of life.
ref: 2004, Gary A. Emmett, Field Guide to the Normal Newborn, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 132:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: big jobs
word: bowel movement
word: cack
word: call of nature
word: crap
word: crapping
word: defecating
word: defecation
word: doing one's ease
word: doing one's easement
word: dump
word: dumping
word: easement
word: hod
word: motion
word: number two
word: poo
word: pooh
word: poop
word: purging
word: sharn
word: shit
word: shitting
word: spraying
word: taking a shit
glosses: A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.
glosses: A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.
examples: text: the fore backstay deadeyes and stool had to be lowered 2 feet
ref: 1972, The Mariner's Mirror:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
glosses: Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.
Derived terms: bar stool
birth stool
Bristol stool chart
Bristol stool scale
camp stool
close stool
cucking stool
cuttystool
destool
donkey stool
ducking stool
enstool
footstool
frithstool
frith stool
groom of the stool
joint-stool
litany stool
necessary stool
paddock-stool
pass a stool
pass stool
pedal stool
pedal-stool
petal stool
piano stool
pining stool
pixie-stool
pixy-stool
potty stool
queening stool
rocking stool
sauna stool
saw-stool
scolding stool
shower stool
smoking stool syndrome
step stool
stool-ball
stoolie
stool of easement
stool of repentance
stool pigeon
stool softener
toilet stool
window stool
X-stool
Related terms: chair
seat