What's the difference between stomp and stoop?

Stomp


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To stamp with the foot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nearest to Camburi and swimming distance from Praia Preta (Black Beach), this discerning, four-suite luxury home in Barra do Sahy is overseen by a Texan, who has stomped her Big-Oil-Meets-Brazil footprint all over it.
  • (2) I’m not sure that France or Italy would be our stomping ground, but I wouldn’t mind giving it a go.
  • (3) Images of her being dragged and stomped on - her black abaya cloak torn open to reveal her naked torso and blue bra - became a rallying symbol for the revolution and undermined the interim military rulers who held power between Mubarak's fall and Morsi's rise.
  • (4) The documentary moves beyond the charity's work to show British expatriates in Kenya; one stompingly posh woman remarks they have "a wildly gay time" there, and she feels that "even in their poverty, [the Kenyan people] are basically happy".
  • (5) She's like a bull stomping its hooves before a charge.
  • (6) One undercover officer, Peter Francis , who infiltrated anti-racist groups for four years, has described how he felt as if he was “stomping on the grave” of the four-year-old boy whose identity he used .
  • (7) In 2007 he was a convincing lead in Puppet Rapist , a five-part mock-cop show also scripted by Ford, which shares thematic stomping ground with Robot & Frank.
  • (8) Since Scott’s death it has also emerged that the second officer on the scene, Clarence Habersham – an African American – is the subject of a separate lawsuit in which the complainant states he was stomped in the face while handcuffed by a group of officers .
  • (9) The fight ends with you stomping the last remaining vitality from the hapless construction worker's blood-squirting body.
  • (10) The models' hair was styled into outsize saucers, their lashes and brows powdered white; they wore Black Watch tartan and scowled as they stomped.
  • (11) One component of precopulatory behavior (foot stomping) was not affected by EB.
  • (12) A very sharp-suited Alex Turner and band stomp through Do I Wanna Know?.
  • (13) Wilson described Brown as a “demon” – as an “it” – as a monstrous creature, stomping and huffing, and building up momentum for a final assault, like the Incredible Hulk – all comic-book id and no superego.
  • (14) Teachers demonstrated this by sending the wrapped present around and having each student stomp on it.
  • (15) "You'd get stomped while you were trying to figure out which setting to use," he concludes.
  • (16) Watching X Factor stars dodge foul-smelling flying objects Last year, Cher Lloyd got a soaking thanks to some airborne bottles of urine and stomped off after only two songs.
  • (17) Newspaper cartoonists made hay with the idea of Bill stomping all over his wife’s campaign.
  • (18) Pussy Riot are feted by the British establishment, but what would happen if a female punk band was prosecuted for stomping on the altar steps of St Paul’s Cathedral, singing abuse of the Queen?
  • (19) Back in Budapest, watching Charli and her all-girl band on stage, it's easy to see the appeal: live, she is a force, years of arena support slots whirled into a show full of wild mane-flicking, stomping, impressive back bends and tongue-waggling.
  • (20) Gerbils with either large anterior or posterior lesions were compared with normal gerbils by administering a battery of tests of rodent behaviours such as grooming, eating, social interaction, ventral marking and foot-stomping.

Stoop


Definition:

  • (n.) Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; the Dutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, an out-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, with platform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distance above the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform, entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door.
  • (n.) A vessel of liquor; a flagon.
  • (n.) A post fixed in the earth.
  • (v. i.) To bend the upper part of the body downward and forward; to bend or lean forward; to incline forward in standing or walking; to assume habitually a bent position.
  • (v. i.) To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.
  • (v. i.) To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
  • (v. i.) To come down as a hawk does on its prey; to pounce; to souse; to swoop.
  • (v. i.) To sink when on the wing; to alight.
  • (v. t.) To bend forward and downward; to bow down; as, to stoop the body.
  • (v. t.) To cause to incline downward; to slant; as, to stoop a cask of liquor.
  • (v. t.) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
  • (v. t.) To degrade.
  • (n.) The act of stooping, or bending the body forward; inclination forward; also, an habitual bend of the back and shoulders.
  • (n.) Descent, as from dignity or superiority; condescension; an act or position of humiliation.
  • (n.) The fall of a bird on its prey; a swoop.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Özil showed great determination to get into the six-yard area, sprinting forwards and turning in the cross with a stooping header.
  • (2) In case the muscles cannot compensate the anterior stooping, the spine can be taken back straight by posterior pelvic tilting.
  • (3) Her stooped figure shuffles slowly in, manoeuvring a giant shopping trolley around the door.
  • (4) Anyone who allows himself to stoop to such polemics shows that they are running out of proper arguments”, said Jürgen Hardt, the foreign affairs spokesman for Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats.
  • (5) Mark Boylan, who has a condition called neurofibromatosis which causes large tumours to grow on the face, said: "As a genuine Top Gear fan, I was gutted the presenters felt the need to stoop to such a low level.
  • (6) I look at it from an investigators' standpoint, because I didn't have anything to do with it of course, because I would never stoop as low as to do anything like that, but I do understand that in that case, the peanuts went in through the sunroof, and then filled the entire car to the very top.
  • (7) His inswinging ball eluded Winston Reid at the front post but found Antonio, whose stooping header came off his marker Deeney and past the bewildered Heurelho Gomes.
  • (8) Motor evaluation disclosed moderate bradykinesia, rigidity and rest tremor, shuffling gait, poor facial mimic, stooped posture, and his speech was low and monotonous; deep tendon reflexes were brisk.
  • (9) If the reaction to another Gawker story last year, since taken down, that possibly outed an executive is any indication, most news outlets already think of themselves as better and more virtuous than Gawker – they would never stoop so low as to publish a sex tape in the first place.
  • (10) He told parliament Australia would “never stoop to the level of those who hate us and fight evil with evil” but might have to shift “the delicate balance between freedom and security”.
  • (11) Even the CSKA Moscow manager Leonid Slutsky (come, come, let's not stoop that low) says the pitch is about as good as the club's recent results - their last 10 games in all competitions look like this: P10 W4 D1 L5.
  • (12) Their resistance broke only once, on 83 minutes, when Müller stole in behind Cole to score with a stooping header.
  • (13) United had threatened only sporadically before the stooping header from Evans made it 1-0.
  • (14) Between severe low back pain and both stooping or kneeling a dose-response relationship was found.
  • (15) Dynamic (trunk flexion-extension, lateral rotation-standing, stooping) and static (quiet sitting, rotation-sitting) movements were performed over a ten second interval.
  • (16) We stopped by a bridge and stooped to let a troop of macaques take pieces of fruit from our hands.
  • (17) Gerrard takes a booming corner to the far post, punched out by Heaton and when the ball breaks on the edge of the box Mason stoops to head it clear just as Skrtel tries to volley it.
  • (18) Bayern Munich 1-0 Barcelona (Muller 24) Thomas Muller stoops to head the ball past Victor Valdes from close range at the far post.
  • (19) There is the stoopingly low chair from which he wrote; and an ornamental gold dog Tolstoy slept with under his pillow as a boy.
  • (20) Presenting complaints were fatigue, pain and a stooped posture.