Stoop vs. Bend
Stoopnoun
The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.
Stoopnoun
The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.
Stoopnoun
A stooping, bent position of the body
Stoopnoun
An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
Stoopnoun
(dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.
Stoopnoun
A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon.
Stoopverb
To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.
Stoopverb
To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.
Stoopverb
Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
Stoopverb
(transitive) To cause to incline downward; to slant.
Stoopverb
(transitive) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
Stoopverb
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
Stoopverb
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
Stoopverb
To degrade.
Stoopnoun
Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
Stoopnoun
A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
Stoopnoun
A post fixed in the earth.
Stoopnoun
The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
Stoopnoun
Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
Stoopnoun
The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
Stoopverb
To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
Stoopverb
To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
Stoopverb
To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
Stoopverb
To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
Stoopverb
To sink when on the wing; to alight.
Stoopverb
To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
Stoopverb
To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
Stoopverb
To cause to submit; to prostrate.
Stoopverb
To degrade.
Stoopnoun
an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward
Stoopnoun
basin for holy water
Stoopnoun
small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house
Stoopverb
bend one's back forward from the waist on down;
Stoopverb
debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way;
Stoopverb
descend swiftly, as if on prey;
Stoopverb
sag, bend, bend over or down;
Stoopverb
carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward;
Bendverb
(transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
Bendverb
(intransitive) To become curved.
Bendverb
(transitive) To cause to change direction.
Bendverb
(intransitive) To change direction.
Bendverb
(intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
Bendverb
To stoop.
Bendverb
(intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
Bendverb
(transitive) To force to submit.
Bendverb
(intransitive) To submit.
Bendverb
(transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
Bendverb
(intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
Bendverb
(transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
Bendverb
To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
Bendverb
To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
Bendverb
To swing the body when rowing.
Bendnoun
A curve.
Bendnoun
Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
Bendnoun
A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
Bendnoun
(heraldry) One of the honourable 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.
Bendnoun
(obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
Bendnoun
In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
Bendnoun
(mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
Bendnoun
The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
Bendnoun
The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
Bendnoun
(music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
Bendverb
To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
Bendverb
To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
Bendverb
To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
Bendverb
To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
Bendverb
To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
Bendverb
To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
Bendverb
To jut over; to overhang.
Bendverb
To be inclined; to be directed.
Bendverb
To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
Bendnoun
A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.
Bendnoun
Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
Bendnoun
A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
Bendnoun
The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.
Bendnoun
Hard, indurated clay; bind.
Bendnoun
same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
Bendnoun
A band.
Bendnoun
One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
Bendnoun
a circular segment of a curve;
Bendnoun
movement that causes the formation of a curve
Bendnoun
curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)
Bendnoun
an angular or rounded shape made by folding;
Bendnoun
a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range
Bendnoun
diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left
Bendverb
form a curve;
Bendverb
change direction;
Bendverb
cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form;
Bendverb
bend one's back forward from the waist on down;
Bendverb
turn from a straight course , fixed direction, or line of interest
Bendverb
bend a joint;
