stool
(stuːl )
Word forms: stools
1. countable noun B2
A stool is a seat with legs but no support for your arms or back.
O'Brien sat on a bar stool and leaned his elbows on the counter.
2. fall between two stools phrase
If someone has fallen between two stools, they are unable to decide which of two courses of action to take and as a result they have not done either of them successfully.
3. countable noun [usually plural]
Stools are the pieces of solid waste matter that are passed out of a person's body through their bowels. [mainly medicine]
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Collocations:
wooden stool
He offered a gift of a wooden stool in gratitude.
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He would shift on the low wooden stool, his legs on either side of the metal wash basin, before launching into another story.
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I shift around on the uncomfortable wooden stool.
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The trip goes well, and the pupils present their guest with one of their products as a gift: a wooden stool.
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He and his fellow actors mime uppercuts and left hooks in perfect synch with rhythmic claps and the slamming of wooden stools.
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Translations:
Chinese: 凳子
Japanese: スツール
- signal a move
- signal an arrival
- signal an intention
- signal a return
- sign a law
- signal box
- signal cable
- signal detection
- sign a lease
- sign a letter
- signal failure
- signal interference
- signally
- signalman
- signal molecule
- signal pathway
- signals intelligence
- signals travel
- signal strength
- signal the beginning of
- signal the end
- signal the start of
- signal transduction
- signalwoman
- sign a memorandum