stool

Betekenis (Engels)

1. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
2. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
3. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
4. A seat, especially for one person and without armrests.
5. A close-stool; a seat used for urination and defecation: a chamber pot, commode, outhouse seat, or toilet.
6. A plant that has been cut down until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth.
7. Feces, excrement.
8. A production of feces or excrement, an act of defecation, stooling.
9. A decoy; a portable piece of wood to which a pigeon is fastened to lure wild birds.
10. A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the deadeyes of the backstays.
11. Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

kruk

taboeret

crapaud

wortelkluit

excrementen

faeces

stoelgang hebben

take a crap

small bench

ca-ca

lavatory seat

small table

human excrement

relieve the bowels

die shoe

stump of a tree

baffle plate

tree stump

window stool

small stepladder

evacuate bowels

void excrement

Frequentie

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/stuːl/

From Middle English stool, stole, stol, from Old English stōl (“chair, seat, throne”), from Proto-West Germanic *stōl, from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz (“chair”) (compare West Frisian stoel, Dutch stoel, German Stuhl, Swedish/Norwegian/Danish stol, Finnish tuoli, Estonian tool), from Proto-Indo-European *stoh₂los (compare Lithuanian stálas, Russian стол (stol, “table”), Russian стул (stul, “chair”), Serbo-Croatian stol (“table”), Slovene stol (“chair”), Albanian kështallë (“crutch”), Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “block of stone used as a prop or buttress to a wall”)), from *steh₂- (“to stand”). More at stand. The medical use derives from sense 2 (seat used for defecation).