STOOL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stool mean? 

• STOOL (noun)
  The noun STOOL has 4 senses:

1. a simple seat without a back or arms

2. solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

3. (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings

4. a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

  Familiarity information: STOOL used as a noun is uncommon.

• STOOL (verb)
  The verb STOOL has 4 senses:

1. lure with a stool, as of wild fowl

2. react to a decoy, of wildfowl

3. grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers

4. have a bowel movement

  Familiarity information: STOOL used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STOOL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A simple seat without a back or arms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("stool" is a kind of...):

seat (furniture that is designed for sitting on)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stool"):

cutty stool (a low stool; formerly in Scotland, a seat in a church where an offender was publicly rebuked)

footrest; footstool; ottoman; tuffet (a low seat or a stool to rest the feet of a seated person)

milking stool (low three-legged stool with a half round seat; used to sit on while milking a cow)

music stool; piano stool (a stool for piano players; usually adjustable in height)

step stool (a stool that has one or two steps that fold under the seat)

taboret; tabouret (a low stool in the shape of a drum)

campstool (a folding stool)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

BM; dejection; faecal matter; faeces; fecal matter; feces; ordure; stool

Hypernyms ("stool" is a kind of...):

body waste; excrement; excreta; excretion; excretory product (waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stool"):

dog do; dog shit; dog turd; doggy do (fecal droppings from a dog)

crap; dirt; poop; shit; shite; turd (obscene terms for feces)

droppings; dung; muck (fecal matter of animals)

meconium (thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child)

melaena; melena (abnormally dark tarry feces containing blood (usually from gastrointestinal bleeding))

Derivation:

stool (have a bowel movement)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("stool" is a kind of...):

stump; tree stump (the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled)

Domain category:

forestry (the science of planting and caring for forests and the management of growing timber)

Derivation:

stool (grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

can; commode; crapper; pot; potty; stool; throne; toilet

Hypernyms ("stool" is a kind of...):

plumbing fixture (a fixture for the distribution and use of water in a building)

Meronyms (parts of "stool"):

toilet seat (the hinged seat on a toilet)

toilet bowl (the bowl of a toilet that can be flushed with water)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stool"):

flush toilet; lavatory (a toilet that is cleaned of waste by the flow of water through it)

potty chair; potty seat (toilet consisting of a small seat used by young children)

flushless toilet (a toilet that relies on bacteria to break down waste matter (instead of using water))

Holonyms ("stool" is a part of...):

bathroom (a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet)

bathroom; can; john; lav; lavatory; privy; toilet (a room or building equipped with one or more toilets)

Derivation:

stool (have a bowel movement)

• STOOL (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lure with a stool, as of wild fowl

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "stool" is one way to...):

entice; lure; tempt (provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

React to a decoy, of wildfowl

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "stool" is one way to...):

react; respond (show a response or a reaction to something)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

stool; tiller

Hypernyms (to "stool" is one way to...):

acquire; develop; get; grow; produce (come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes))

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

stool ((forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Have a bowel movement

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

ca-ca; crap; defecate; make; shit; stool; take a crap; take a shit

Context example:

The dog had made in the flower beds

Hypernyms (to "stool" is one way to...):

egest; eliminate; excrete; pass (eliminate from the body)

Verb group:

make; make water; micturate; pass water; pee; pee-pee; piddle; piss; puddle; relieve oneself; spend a penny; take a leak; urinate; wee; wee-wee (eliminate urine)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "stool"):

dung (defecate; used of animals)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

stool (a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination)

stool (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels)

 Context examples 

It's also called stool or feces.

(Bowel Movement, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

Of these trees I made two stools, each about three feet high, and strong enough to bear my weight.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The ground-work of that stool, and Peggotty's complexion appeared to me to be one and the same thing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The stool can be hard and dry.

(Constipation, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

A finding indicating the presence of blood in stool.

(Blood in Stool, NCI Thesaurus)

Tests include colonoscopy and tests for blood in the stool.

(Colorectal Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

A laboratory procedure that involves the examination of blood, urine, other fluids, and stool for diagnostic or research purposes.

(Clinical Pathology Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)

Then they turned over stool samples to the researchers who then looked for microplastics.

(Researchers Discover Microplastics in 100 Percent of People Studied, VOA)

A measurement of the blood in body products such as a urine or stool sample, not detectable on gross examination.

(Occult Blood Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

As the clock struck nine and Jo proposed bed, Meg suddenly left her chair and, taking Beth's stool, leaned her elbows on her mother's knee, saying bravely...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)