DESCEND vs STOOP: NOUN
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- Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
- 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.
- A post fixed in the earth.
- Figuratively, a sustainer; a patron.
- An upright support; a prop or column; specifically, in coal-mining, a pillar of coal left to support the roof.
- A post or pillar; specifically, an upright post used to mark distance, etc., on a racecourse.
- The stock or stem, as of a tree; the stump.
- A descent from superiority, dignity, or power; a condescension, concession, or submission: as, a politic stoop.
- Hence That which stoops or swoops; a hawk.
- The darting down of a bird on its prey; a swoop; a pounce.
- The act of stooping or bending down; hence, a habitual bend of the back or shoulders: as, to walk with a stoop.
- A basin for holy water, usuallyplaced in a niche or against the wall or a pillar at the entrance of Roman Catholic churches: also used in private houses.
- Hence Liquor for drinking, especially wine, considered as the contents of a stoop: as, he tossed off his stoop.
- A drinking-vessel; a beaker; a flagon; a tankard; a pitcher.
- An uncovered platform before the entrance of a house, raised, and approached by means of steps. Sometimes incorrectly used for porch or veranda.
- A descent, as of a bird of prey.
- An act of self-abasement or condescension.
- A forward bending of the head and upper back, especially when habitual.
- The act of stooping.
- An inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward
- Small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house
- Basin for holy water
- The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.
- A small porch, platform, or staircase leading to the entrance of a house or building.
- The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
DESCEND vs STOOP: VERB
- Move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way
- Come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example
- Do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- Come as if by falling
- Sag, bend, bend over or down
- Descend swiftly, as if on prey
- Carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward
- Bend one's back forward from the waist on down
- Debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way
DESCEND vs STOOP: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To fall in pitch; to pass from a higher to a lower tone.
- To move toward the south, or to the southward.
- To come down, as from a source, original, or stock; to be derived; to proceed by generation or by transmission; to fall or pass by inheritance
- To pass from the more general or important to the particular or less important matters to be considered.
- To make an attack, or incursion, as if from a vantage ground; to come suddenly and with violence; -- with on or upon.
- To enter mentally; to retire.
- To pass from a higher to a lower place; to move downwards; to come or go down in any way, as by falling, flowing, walking, etc.; to plunge; to fall; to incline downward; -- the opposite of ascend.
- To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self.
- To extend or proceed downward along.
- To move from a higher to lower part of; go down.
- To arrive or attack in a sudden or overwhelming manner.
- To proceed or progress downward, as in rank, pitch, or scale.
- To lower oneself; stoop.
- To pass by inheritance.
- To come down from a source; derive.
- To be related by genetic descent from an individual or individuals in a previous generation.
- To slope, extend, or incline downward.
- To move from a higher to a lower place; come or go down.
- To lower or debase oneself.
- To bend forward and down from the waist or the middle of the back.
- To stand or walk, especially habitually, with the head and upper back bent forward.
- To sink when on the wing; to alight.
- To debase; humble.
- 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.
- To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
- To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
- To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
- To bend (oneself, the head, or the body) forward and down.
- To swoop down, as a bird in pursuing its prey.
- To descend from a superior social position; condescend.
DESCEND vs STOOP: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of
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DESCEND vs STOOP: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To move or pass downward upon or along; come or go down upon; pass from the top to the bottom of: as, to descend a hill; to descend an inclined plane.
- In astronomy, to move to the southward, or toward the south, as a star.
- To come down from a certain moral or social standard; lower or abase one's self morally or socially: as, to descend to acts of meanness; to descend to an inferior position; hence, to condescend; stoop.
- To pass, as from general to particular statements: as, having explained the general subject, we will descend to particulars.
- To proceed from a source or original; be derived lineally or by transmission; come or pass downward, as offspring in the line of generation, or as property from owner to heir.
- To come or go down in a hostile manner; invade, as an enemy; fall violently: with on.
- To move or pass from a higher to a lower place; move, come, or go downward; fall; sink: as, he descended from the tower; the sun is descending.
- In physical, to pass from higher to lower readings or values upon any scale: said specifically of the musical scale and of the thermometric scale.
- Come from
- To bend; bow; incline; especially, of persons, to lower the body by bending forward and downward.
- To be bent or inclined from the perpendicular; specifically, to carry the head and shoulders habitually bowed forward from the upright line of the rest of the body.
- To come down; descend.
- Specifically, to swoop upon prey or quarry, as a hawk; pounce.
- To condescend; deign: especially expressing a lowering of the moral self, and generally followed by an infinitive or the proposition to.
- To yield; submit; succumb.
- To bend downward; bow.
- To bring or take down; lower, as a flag or a sail.
- To put down; abase; submit; subject.
- To cast down; prostrate; overthrow; overcome.
- To swoop or pounce down upon.
- To steep; macerate.
- To incline; tilt: as, to stoop a cask.
DESCEND vs STOOP: RELATED WORDS
- Dismount, Drop, Deplane, Shoot, Disembark, Wend, Arrive, Go down, Come down, Derive, Deign, Condescend, Come, Stoop, Fall
- Loan, Ready, Doorstep, Door, Deign, Doorway, Porch, Lower oneself, Stoup, Bow, Bend, Descend, Crouch, Stoep, Condescend
DESCEND vs STOOP: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Paddle, Kill, Get, Dismount, Deplane, Shoot, Disembark, Arrive, Go down, Derive, Deign, Condescend, Come, Stoop, Fall
- Grovel, Clamber, Squat, Loan, Ready, Doorstep, Door, Deign, Doorway, Porch, Bend, Descend, Crouch, Stoep, Condescend
DESCEND vs STOOP: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- And on its top descend the mystic Dove.
- We descend to camp in a beautiful meadow.
- PILOT Descend and maintain one thousand four hundred.
- Sufficient braking capacity to descend ramp inclines safely.
- Lon Star Santas descend on SA for St.
- Shane hobbles as the walkers descend on them.
- Hall came back down to descend with him.
- RAPPEL: descend from cliff or helicopter by rope.
- You can ascend up, but also descend down.
- Does he descend from Peretz or does he descend from Zerach?
- Pennsylvania would stoop in their quest for land.
- Why are the requirements for a stoop different?
- Continuously reach, bend, lift, carry, stoop, and wipe.
- How low will Labour stoop for political gain?.
- Are you able to bend, squat, and stoop?
- Must be able to stoop, kneel and crouch.
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- Stand, walk, stoop, kneel, crawl, balance, climband crouch.
- Stoop, fall of a bird on its prey.
- Sweep the patio, porch, stoop, and front walkway.
DESCEND vs STOOP: QUESTIONS
- How did the first mortal woman descend down to Earth?
- What clearance do you need to descend via air traffic?
- What happens if you descend too fast in scuba diving?
- Does the royal family descend from alien-reptile creatures?
- What does descend at most levels of directories mean?
- When does the majority of cryptorchid testes descend?
- Which zodiac signs will descend from Sadesati completely?
- Do Europeans descend from four distinct ancestral components?
- Did progressive disaggregation finally descend to the people?
- Which Spanish noble titles descend from the Aztecs?
- What was astonishing that a man of his intellect could stoop so low?
- Would you stoop so low to own a Stanley board room plane?
- Do you believe our youths would stoop so low as to vandalise?
- How can I make my small porch or stoop look bigger?
- How does the peregrine falcon cope with high-speed stoop maneuvering?
- Why is the peregrine falcon called a high speed stoop?
- How does Miss Hardcastle stoop to Conquer Young Marlow?
- What is the nearest railway station to Twickenham Stoop?
- Does a high-speed stoop maximize Falcon catch success?
- When does International Hockey return to the Twickenham Stoop?