stool
 stool/stuːl/ noun [COUNTABLE]
[Language : Old English; Origin : stol]
1. a seat that has three or four legs, but no back or arms:
▪ a bar stool
2. medical a piece of solid waste from your bowels
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ducking stool
piano stool
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
 ADJECTIVE
high
▪ Perched uncomfortably on the high stool, he pressed his ankles together to prevent any movement of his dangling legs.
▪ Fourth Aunt, perched on a high stool in front of Jinju, coughed.
▪ The most precious specimen of all, and-the oldest, sat on a high stool.
▪ I had slumped down on a high, three-legged stool in back of the metal washtub.
▪ He said he'd expire if he had to sit on that high stool much longer.
▪ I sat on the divan and he on his high stool by the bench.
▪ She'd stripped to her stockings and garter belt, and carried a high stool centre stage.
liquid
▪ Fewer data are available in the case of liquid stool incontinence.
▪ The quarters became rank with liquid stool and vomit.
▪ We elected to study only patients with disabling liquid stool incontinence and urgency where conventional medical treatment had already failed.
loose
▪ Sometimes parents had stopped the laxative because the stool withholding manoeuvres or screaming did not stop as soon as loose stools were induced.
▪ Warning: Consumers over the age of 16 are likely to experience severe indigestion, heartburn, regret and loose stools.
▪ Signs of food intolerance to look out for include skin rashes and loose watery stools.
▪ Warning: Eaten in sufficient amounts, this product ensures bad breath, probable indigestion and pungent, loose stools.
▪ It needs time to regain its normal elasticity and reduce in size so a period of loose stools is often desirable.
▪ Parents may interpret this as very loose stools.
▪ Patients with active colitis had clinical symptoms of urgency, loose stools, abdominal pain, and blood in the stool.
small
▪ Then one night voices were raised and heads turned as she left the small stool just as suddenly as she had come.
▪ Red is sitting motionless on a small stool in the middle of the room.
wooden
▪ She was sitting on a tall wooden stool with a cleaver in her hand, chopping leeks.
▪ The long hours, those hard wooden stools.
NOUN
bar
▪ A firm in Maidenhead designed an hydraulically operated bar stool with a large base housing a compressed air tank.
▪ Professor Ito pulls himself up tall on his bar stool.
▪ I strolled over to a bar stool, mounted up and set Barry down in an ashtray.
▪ I jumped up on a bar stool and began making a speech.
▪ He hoisted himself on to one of the bar stools and nodded in greeting to the barman who was busy serving another customer.
▪ If a patron throws a bar stool, Pat will at least have experience at dealing with it.
▪ Nicola was shown on a bar stool in a black skirt that barely hid her crutch.
▪ They also provide a more comfortable perch than a bar stool for those most interested in conversation.
frequency
▪ There was a reduction in her stool frequency, an improvement in her abdominal pain, and a less productive cough.
▪ Differentiation between remission/mild and moderate disease is mostly a function of stool frequency.
▪ To evaluate this parameter independently the mean stool frequency was calculated for each group at entry and during the study.
▪ High stool frequency, imperfect continence or the use of anti-diarrhoeal drugs was similar in all three groups.
▪ Median hospital stay, however, was the same and stool frequency in those with a functioning pouch were comparable.
▪ Most often the intervention did not change stool frequency or stool consistency, or both.
piano
▪ But Maria was already back up to the piano stool.
sample
▪ Biopsy and stool samples were examined for infective agents.
▪ From patients who reported a history of diarrhoea, three stool samples were taken for parasitology and bacterial culture.
VERB
fall
▪ Madame Arcati was springing on to tables, falling backwards off stools and dancing eccentric tangos.
▪ That was a bad time for her because she fell between two stools in a way.
▪ Overall, the study seems to fall between two stools.
▪ Several themes in physical geology suffer from falling between the stools of historical geology and geomorphology.
▪ A scheme like this would fall between the ministry stools of energy, transport, environment, and trade and industry.
▪ Its attempt to combine serious social comment with an escapist action movie format cause it to fall heavily between two stools.
▪ It now falls between all stools and can not be allowed to suffer a lingering death any longer.
▪ She felt as if some one had taken a swing at her with a sledgehammer, but didn't fall off her stool.
perch
▪ Madame Gauthier was perched on a stool at the reception desk, making up her accounts.
▪ Fourth Aunt, perched on a high stool in front of Jinju, coughed.
▪ He was still perched on the stool while Evelyn sat on the far side of the kitchen table.
▪ Litchfield perched atop a stool he had pulled close to the bed.
▪ And children enjoy perching on stools.
▪ The lads were each sitting on a black, plastic jerry-can, while I was perched on my fishing stool.
▪ Bob perched on a bar stool, still wearing his overcoat.
▪ Emily perched on a stool, biting her bottom lip.
pull
▪ He pulled a stool up to the window and sat.
▪ She pulls up a stool and sits down next to us, watching intently, still unable to stifle her laughter.
sit
▪ Claudia sat on a stool, relief pouring through her.
▪ After the noon meal he sat on a stool helping Lois dry dishes.
▪ As I sat down on a stool at the counter, Joey immediately put a cup of coffee in front of me.
▪ He said he'd expire if he had to sit on that high stool much longer.
▪ He sat on his stool, his hands in his aproned lap, his big fleshy head swaying to the music.
▪ Willie sat on the stool holding it in front of the fire, his long socks trailing across the floor.
▪ You sit on tall stools, either at the long bar or at tiny tables in the cozy room.
sitting
▪ He was sitting on a three-legged stool chopping sticks.
▪ Soo was not sitting on her stool.
▪ He was sitting on a tall stool by the window, picking out fragments of old melodies on a twelve string Yamaha.
▪ She darted back, sitting on a stool beside him.
▪ I was sitting on my fishing stool wearing winter clothes, and a sailcloth robe thrown over me for extra warmth.
▪ Nursed a single drink while sitting on a stool by the window.
▪ Zen was sitting on a stool under a bright light in a small white-curtained cubicle, thinking about Trotsky and the ice-man.
▪ I squeeze my way through the men standing against the wall and those sitting on bar stools.
slide
▪ He slid off his stool, hands open, palms outwards.
stand
▪ Let's both go upstairs and stand on the bathroom stool.
▪ Then you just have to stand on a stool to get it.
▪ The Headmaster stood on a stool to conduct the lifting and Mr Slipper waited eagerly, shinier than ever.
▪ I am standing beside the stool, helping.
▪ She was made to stand naked on two stools which were some yard apart.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fall between two stools
▪ Overall, the study seems to fall between two stools.
▪ That was a bad time for her because she fell between two stools in a way.
pull up a chair/stool etc
▪ Anyway, I pull up a chair by the bed and say hello.
▪ He pulls up a chair as she starts another game.
▪ He now pulled up a chair and, turning it about, sat on it, his elbows resting on the back.
▪ Rose, Victorine, Thérèse and Léonie pulled up chairs to the kitchen table and set to.
▪ She pulls up a stool and sits down next to us, watching intently, still unable to stifle her laughter.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a bar stool
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Elder Brother fetched his stool and sat with the others.
▪ He and his girlfriend occupied two stools and had a lot of attitude because they were so successful.
▪ I was sitting on my fishing stool wearing winter clothes, and a sailcloth robe thrown over me for extra warmth.
▪ She was sitting on a tall wooden stool with a cleaver in her hand, chopping leeks.
▪ The fluid and ions are lost as watery stool.
▪ Under the window was an easel and a stool and beside it a battered chest of drawers.
▪ You would be safer packing a bucket and a stool and driving a few miles to your nearest Holstein.
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