Meaning

13 senses
  1. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.

    (countable, uncountable)A seat for one person without a back or armrests.

    a simple seat without a back or arms

  2. (countable, uncountable)A footstool.

  3. (Scotland, countable, dialectal, uncountable)A seat with a back; a chair.

  4. (Scotland, countable, dialectal, figuratively, literally, uncountable)A throne.

  5. (Africa, West, countable, uncountable)A royal seat; a chief's throne.

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

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

    a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

  8. (broadly, countable, uncountable)Feces; excrement.

    I provided the doctor with stool samples.

    Stuhl, Stuhlgang, Exkrement

    стулstul, калkal

  9. Feces; excrement.

    (broadly, countable, uncountable)A production of feces or excrement; an act of defecation, stooling.

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

  11. (US, countable, dialectal, uncountable)Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

  12. (countable, slang, uncountable)An informer to the police.

Examples

73 sentences
  1. Tom got up from his stool.

    Том встав із табуретки.

    ruТом встал со стула.

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  2. Tom sat down on one of the stools.

    Том сів на одну з табуреток.

    deTom setzte sich auf einen der Hocker.

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  3. Tom sat on a stool in the corner.

    Том сів на табуретку в кутку.

    ruТом сел на табуретку в углу.

    deTom saß auf einem Hocker in der Ecke.

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  4. A man came in and sat on the stool next to her.

    Чоловік зайшов і сів на табуретку поруч із нею.

    ruВошел мужчина и сел на табурет рядом с ней.

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  5. Tom kicked the stool out from under Mary.

    Том вибив табуретку з-під Мері.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
a seat:
Русский
By meaning 3
a seat:
medical jargon for excrement:
a decoy:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
a seat:
medical jargon for excrement:

Origin

From Middle English stool, from Old English stōl (“chair, seat”), from Proto-West Germanic

From Middle English stool, from Old English stōl (“chair, seat”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōl, from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz (“chair”), from Proto-Indo-European *stoh₂los (“frame, rack, stand”), from *steh₂- (“to stand”).

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