English Dictionary

stool

/stuːl/

noun

A seat for one person without a back or armrests. / A footstool. / (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A seat with a back; a chair. / (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland, literally and figuratively) A throne.

I sat on a stool at the bar.

意味（1）

A seat for one person without a back or armrests.

意味（2）

A footstool.

意味（3）

(now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A seat with a back; a chair.

意味（4）

(now chiefly dialectal, Scotland, literally and figuratively) A throne.

意味（5）

(obsolete) A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.

意味（6）

(horticulture) A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.

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 […]

意味（7）

(chiefly medicine) Feces, excrement.

I provided the doctor with stool samples.

意味（8）

(chiefly medicine) A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.

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.

意味（9）

(archaic) A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.

意味（10）

(nautical) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.

the fore backstay deadeyes and stool had to be lowered 2 feet

意味（11）

(US, dialect) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.