What's the difference between seat and stool?

Seat


Definition:

  • (n.) The place or thing upon which one sits; hence; anything made to be sat in or upon, as a chair, bench, stool, saddle, or the like.
  • (n.) The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation.
  • (n.) That part of a thing on which a person sits; as, the seat of a chair or saddle; the seat of a pair of pantaloons.
  • (n.) A sitting; a right to sit; regular or appropriate place of sitting; as, a seat in a church; a seat for the season in the opera house.
  • (n.) Posture, or way of sitting, on horseback.
  • (n.) A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, a valve seat.
  • (v. t.) To place on a seat; to cause to sit down; as, to seat one's self.
  • (v. t.) To cause to occupy a post, site, situation, or the like; to station; to establish; to fix; to settle.
  • (v. t.) To assign a seat to, or the seats of; to give a sitting to; as, to seat a church, or persons in a church.
  • (v. t.) To fix; to set firm.
  • (v. t.) To settle; to plant with inhabitants; as to seat a country.
  • (v. t.) To put a seat or bottom in; as, to seat a chair.
  • (v. i.) To rest; to lie down.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
  • (2) A triphasic pattern was evident for the neck moments including a small phase which represented a seating of the headform on the nodding blocks of the uppermost ATD neck segment, and two larger phases of opposite polarity which represented the motion of the head relative to the trunk during the first 350 ms after impact.
  • (3) "I pulled the microphone in front of my seat, not a knife.
  • (4) A dozen peers hold ministerial positions and Westminster officials are expecting them to keep the paperwork to run the country flowing and the ministerial seats warm while their elected colleagues fight for votes.
  • (5) The last time Vince Cable had a seat in the business department, it was during a high noon of industrial action and state interference in the economy.
  • (6) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
  • (7) Indeed, the nationalist and religious right bloc merely held steady , gaining just one seat.
  • (8) Animals were chronically implanted with epidural or deep recording electrodes and a cannula in one lateral ventricle, and tested whilst seated in a primate chair.
  • (9) Records were broken on seats lost and swings suffered.
  • (10) The number of seats has been reduced from 72,000 to 68,000, with another 12,000 to be added after the Games to meet the 80,000 minimum required in case Japan launches a bid to host the football World Cup.
  • (11) The result will be yet another humiliating hammering for Labour in a seat it could never win, but hey, never mind.
  • (12) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
  • (13) He won the Labour candidacy for the Scottish seat of Kilmarnock and Loudon in 1997, within weeks of polling day, after the sitting Labour MP, Willie McKelvey, decided to stand down when he suffered a stroke.
  • (14) The most common seenario was a vehicle-vehicle collision in which seat belts were not used and the decedent or the decedent's driver was at fault.
  • (15) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
  • (16) The nervous system might therefore be the seat of carcinine biosynthesis and thus the site of action of histamine.
  • (17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whether Sia, Jason Derulo, Coldplay’s Chris Martin or Sir Elton John is in the passenger seat, Corden plays the part of a real fan with a deep knowledge of their discography.
  • (18) Now remarried, and a father, he is standing for Plaid Cymru, again in the Cardiff Bay seat.
  • (19) He is joined by Cathy O’Toole, the ALP candidate for the crucial swing seat of Herbert where Rudd’s campaign bus has stopped on Sunday evening.
  • (20) Clinton lost the presidency and Democrats lost those seats, as Democrats suffered staggering defeats across two branches of government.

Stool


Definition:

  • (n.) A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil.
  • (v. i.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers.
  • (n.) A single seat with three or four legs and without a back, made in various forms for various uses.
  • (n.) A seat used in evacuating the bowels; hence, an evacuation; a discharge from the bowels.
  • (n.) A stool pigeon, or decoy bird.
  • (n.) A small channel on the side of a vessel, for the dead-eyes of the backstays.
  • (n.) A bishop's seat or see; a bishop-stool.
  • (n.) A bench or form for resting the feet or the knees; a footstool; as, a kneeling stool.
  • (n.) Material, such as oyster shells, spread on the sea bottom for oyster spat to adhere to.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Prior to oral feeding, little or no ELA was detected in stools and endotoxinemia was ascertained in only six of 45 infants (13%).
  • (2) Cholestyramine resin was beneficial in reducing stool bulk but had no substantial effect on fat absorption.
  • (3) Stool examination revealed blood in 60% and polymorphonuclear leukocytes in 78% of patients.
  • (4) Stool weights, defecation frequencies, and transit times in this group are much closer to those of westernized whites than to rural blacks.
  • (5) Approximately a third of patients had stools that were positive for C difficile by either toxin or culture.
  • (6) Twenty four stool rotaviruses that comprised 22 distinct electropherotypes were selected for genome analysis from the collection of diarrheal specimens obtained over an eight-year period.
  • (7) Pathogenic Mycobacterium ulcerans were recovered from the stool of anole lizards up to 11 days after inoculation by stomach tube.
  • (8) Isolates from patients who failed to clear the organism from their stools or who had cholera soon after tetracycline prophylaxis had increased minimum inhibitory concentrations of the drug.
  • (9) Estimated by SSST, the FAFol, which employs the stool with the highest content of 51Cr corresponding to the most carmine-colored stool, correlated closely with the FAFol based on complete stool collection (r = 0.96, n = 39, p less than 0.0001).
  • (10) A rapid, sensitive counterimmunoelectrophoresis assay was developed to detect adenovirus in stools of patients with gastroenteritis.
  • (11) Fifteen of 16 asymptomatic patients demonstrated clearing of Shigella from stool within 48 hours of therapy.
  • (12) Recovery of CHO (Polycose) added to fresh stool was greater than 95%, inter-assay coefficient of variation (CV) 6.2%.
  • (13) Decreased consistency of the stools was seen after PEG in both groups (p < 0.001).
  • (14) Cryptosporidium was eradicated from the stools of four patients but two of these patients subsequently relapsed and one patient continued to have diarrhea despite the absence of Cryptosporidium in the stool.
  • (15) The amount of stool used for a Kato-Katz preparation is only a 25th of one gram.
  • (16) A total of 735 stool specimens from adults and children with diarrhea were examined by the Ziehl-Neelson and Kinyoun acid-fast methods and 2.9% of the children 6 to 20 months of age were found passing Cryptosporidium oocysts.
  • (17) Detection of botulinal toxin or C botulinum in the stool of a persons should be considered evidence supporting the clinical diagnosis of botulism.
  • (18) Stool frequency per 24 h was less than or equal to 2 in all CR patients while it was greater than 2 in 40 per cent of the SC patients (P less than 0.05).
  • (19) We compared the utility of this hybridization assay with that of conventional microbiology methods by examination of 1448 stool samples from hospital clinical laboratories.
  • (20) Cryptosporidium oocysts were rarely found in stools of infants receiving only breast milk.