stoop

stoop

englanti

1. taantua, alentua

2. kumartua, taipua

Esimerkkejä stoop sanan käytöstä:

Be wiser and dont 'stoop' to their level by calling names.

:Ole fiksumpi äläkä 'alennu' heidän tasolleen nimittelemällä.

He 'stooped' to tie his shoestrings.

:Hän 'kumartui' sitomaan kengännauhansa.

Synonyymisanakirja: stoop

stoop

1. taivutus, nyökkäys, kumara, kumartuminen, kuisti, porstua, säilyttää, kantaa, kulkea kumarassa, kulkea köyryssä, viettää, kallistua, painua, iskeä kyntensä, syöksyä kimppuun, iskeä kyntensä johonkin, syöksyä jonkin kimppuun, hyökätä, syöksyä.

Katso synonyymisanakirja

Riimisanakirja: stoop

stoop rimmaa näiden kanssa:

1. bebop, hiphop, shop, workshop, hiiop, kop, pop, top, tiptop, stop...

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Käännökset: stoop

stoop suomeksi

kumara, kulkea köyryssä, kuisti, painua, syöksyä

• kuisti

• kumartua

• alentua

• syöksyä

• kumara

stoop englanniksi

• puhekieltä The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.

• 1856 James Fenimore Cooper, Satanstoe or The Littlepage Manuscripts: A Tale of the Colony (London, 1856) http://books.google.com/books?id=U2wJAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA110& page 110

Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops, with seats, at its door.

• 1905 Carpentry and Building, vol. 27 (January 1905), NY: David Williams Company, http://books.google.com/books?id=OydPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA2& page 2

...the entrance being at the side of the house and reached by a low front stoop with four or five risers...

• The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.

• (quote-book)

• To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward.

He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.

• 1900, w:Charles W. Chesnutt|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.

• {{quote-journal

• To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's 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?''

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

• 1882 1875, Thomas Bewick, James Reiveley, William Harvey, The Parlour Menagerie, 4th ed., http://books.google.ca/books?id=vyYqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63&vq=stooped p. 63:

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

• puhekieltä To cause to incline downward; to slant.

to stoop a cask of liquor

• puhekieltä To cause to submit; to prostrate.

• Chapman

Many of those whose states so tempt thine ears / Are stooped by death; and many left alive.

• To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.

• Dryden

Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, (..) / Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.

• Addison

These are arts, my prince, / In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome.

• To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.

• Goldsmith

She stoops to conquer.

• Francis Bacon

Where men of great wealth stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.

• To degrade.

(rfquotek)

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

The old man walked with a stoop.

• 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/15195384.stm

Theo Walcott's final pass has often drawn criticism but there could be no complaint in the 11th minute when his perfect delivery to the far post only required a stoop and a nod of the head from Young to put England ahead.

• An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.

• 1819, w:Washington Irving|Washington Irving, Bracebridge Hall: s:Bracebridge Hall/Hawking|Hawking:

At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarry

• puhekieltä A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.

• A vessel of liquor; a flagon.

• Shakespeare

Fetch me a stoop of liquor.

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