(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.
Vessel
Definition:
(n.) A hollow or concave utensil for holding anything; a hollow receptacle of any kind, as a hogshead, a barrel, a firkin, a bottle, a kettle, a cup, a bowl, etc.
(n.) A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel.
(n.) Fig.: A person regarded as receiving or containing something; esp. (Script.), one into whom something is conceived as poured, or in whom something is stored for use; as, vessels of wrath or mercy.
(n.) Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc.
(n.) A continuous tube formed from superposed large cylindrical or prismatic cells (tracheae), which have lost their intervening partitions, and are usually marked with dots, pits, rings, or spirals by internal deposition of secondary membranes; a duct.
(v. t.) To put into a vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arterial compliance of great vessels can be studied through the Doppler evaluation of pulsed wave velocity along the arterial tree.
(2) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
(3) Multiple overlapping thin 3D slab acquisition is presented as a magnitude contrast (time of flight) technique which combines advantages from multiple thin slice 2D and direct 3D volume acquisitions to obtain high-resolution cross-sectional images of vessel detail.
(4) In the course of the syndrome development blood vessel permeability was increased in the anterior chamber of the eye.
(5) Aside from these characteristic findings of HCC, it was important to reveal the following features for the diagnosis of well differentiated type of small HCC: variable thickening or distortion of trabecular structure in association with nuclear crowding, acinar formation, selective cytoplasmic accumulation of Mallory bodies, nuclear abnormalities consisting of thickening of nucleolus, hepatic cords in close contact with bile ducts or blood vessels, and hepatocytes growing in a fibrous environment.
(6) Two fully matured specimens were collected from the blood vessel of two fish, Theragra chalcogramma, which was bought at the Emun market of Seoul in May, 1985.
(7) Its pathogenesis, still incompletely elucidated, involves the precipitation of immune complexes in the walls of the all vessels.
(8) In one of the cirrhotic patients, postmortem correlation of sonographic, angiographic, and pathological findings showed that the dilated vessels seen on sonography were cystic veins draining normally into the portal vein rather than portosystemic anastomoses.
(9) The observed pulmonary hypertension is probably the result of the left heart insufficiency and is being discussed with regard of the histopathological alterations in the heart muscle and the pulmonary vessels.
(10) DNA synthesis by endothelium subsequently increased and within 48 hr new blood vessel formation was detected.
(11) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(12) After examining the cases reported in literature (Sacks, Barabas, Beighton Sykes), they point out that, contrary to what is generally believed, the syndrome is not rare and cases, sporadic or familial, of recurrent episodes of spontaneous rupture of the intestine and large vessels or peripheral arteries are frequent.
(13) The relationship between pressure at the functional site of origin of intracranial collateral channels (Pstem) and systemic pressure allows an estimation of the size of vascular channels from which collateral vessels originate.
(14) The release of possible peptide hormones into the interpeduncular cistern, where a pool of cerebrospinal fluid and large blood vessels occur, cannot be excluded.
(15) It is suggested that intra-endothelial conduction of electrical signals from capillaries to the resistance vessels may be involved in the local regulation of blood flow in the intact heart.
(16) Type C-like particles were found inter- and intracellularly in gland and vessel lumina and scattered in the connective tissue.
(17) We have characterized the effects of adenosine, the A1-receptor agonist N6-(L-2-phenylisopropyl)-adenosine (PIA) and the A2-receptor agonist 5'-(N-ethyl)-carboxamido-adenosine (NECA), in isolated human pulmonary vessels.
(18) It appears that the viscosity of the arterial wall must be the major source of attenuation in the larger arteries, while the viscosity of the blood plays a significant role only in the smaller vessels.
(19) In the choroid, VIP-immunoreactive fibers were seen mainly in close association with the choroidal blood vessels.
(20) Resistance vessels play a predominant role in limiting systemic arterial pressure in the orthostatic position.