different between flex vs stoop

English

Etymology

Latin flexus, past participle of flecto (“to bend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fl?ks/
• Rhymes: -?ks
• Homophone: flecks

Noun

flex (countable and uncountable, plural flexes)

1. (uncountable) Flexibility, pliancy.
2. (countable) The or an act of flexing.
   • 2002, Gary Noy, Red Dirt: A Journey of Discovery in the Landscape of Imagination, California's Gold Country, iUniverse (?ISBN), page 144:

     The hills become more rounded. The slopes are either the stooped shoulders of an aging colossus or the muscular flexes of a geologic youngster, but they are pleasant, comforting. This landscape is what most would think of […]

3. (uncountable, chiefly Britain) Any flexible insulated electrical wiring.
4. (uncountable) Flexible ductwork, typically flexible plastic over a metal wire coil to shape a tube.
   • 2010, Aaron Lubeck, Green Restorations: Sustainable Building and Historic Homes (page 221)

     Flex is quick and cheaper to install than metallic systems, but it yields higher pressure loss than other types of ducts and requires runs of less than 15 feet, minimal turns and elimination of kinks.

5. (countable, geometry) A point of inflection.
6. (countable, slang) The act of flaunting something; something one considers impressive.
   • 2017, "Mogul Bites", Black American Moguls, Fall 2017, page 6:

     Getting together with other power players at Masa is the ultimate flex of conspicuous consumption. […] A party of five or more requires a deposit of $200 per person at least one week prior to the reservation.

   • 2019, Seth Sommerfeld, "Worldwide Web", Inlander, 4 July 2019 - 10 July 2019, page 37:

     It's an achievement to stand out from other Marvel movies in terms of special effects, but this whole movie feels like a flex for those computer wizards.

   • 2020, Daniel Varghese, "Aesop's Hand Sanitizer Is a Flex for an Anxious Time", GQ, 6 March 2020
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:flex.

Translations

Verb

flex (third-person singular simple present flexes, present participle flexing, simple past and past participle flexed)

1. (transitive) To bend something.
2. (transitive) To repeatedly bend one of one's joints.
3. (transitive) To move part of the body using one's muscles.
4. (intransitive) To tighten the muscles for display of size or strength.
5. (intransitive, slang, by extension) To flaunt one's superiority.

Translations

Related terms

• flexibility
• flexible
• flexing
• flexion

Anagrams

• XFEL

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /stu?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch stoep (“platform", "pavement”). Doublet of stoep. Cognate with step.

Noun

stoop (plural stoops)

1. (chiefly Northeastern US, chiefly New York, also Canada) The staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.

   Synonyms: porch, verandah

   • 1856 James Fenimore Cooper, Satanstoe or The Littlepage Manuscripts: A Tale of the Colony (London, 1856) page 110

     Nearly all the houses were built with their gables to the streets and each had heavy wooden Dutch stoops, with seats, at its door.

   • 1905 Carpentry and Building, vol. 27 (January 1905), NY: David Williams Company, page 2

     ...the entrance being at the side of the house and reached by a low front stoop with four or five risers...

2. (US) The threshold of a doorway, a doorstep.

   Synonyms: step, doorstep

Related terms

• stoep

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English stoupen, from Old English st?pian (“to bow, bend”), from Proto-Germanic *st?p?n?, *st?pijan? (“to stand out”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, butt, knock”). Compare steep. Cognate with Dutch stuipen (“to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward”), Old Norse stúpa (“to stoop”). Related also to Old Frisian st?pa (“to help”), Old Norse steypa (“to cause to stoop, cast down, overthrow”).

Verb

stoop (third-person singular simple present stoops, present participle stooping, simple past and past participle stooped)

1. To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.

   He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Their walk had continued not more than ten minutes when they crossed a creek by a wooden bridge and came to a row of mean houses standing flush with the street. At the door of one, an old black woman had stooped to lift a large basket, piled high with laundered clothes.
2. To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals.

   Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?

3. Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.
   • 1882 [1875], Thomas Bewick, James Reiveley, William Harvey, The Parlour Menagerie, 4th ed., p. 63:

     Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.

4. (transitive) To cause to incline downward; to slant.

   to stoop a cask of liquor

5. (transitive) To cause to submit; to prostrate.
6. To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.

   • Mighty in her ships stood Carthage long, […] / Yet stooped to Rome, less wealthy, but more strong.

   • These are arts, my prince, / In which your Zama does not stoop to Rome.

7. To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.
   • 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Riches

     Where men of great wealth do stoop to husbandry, it multiplieth riches exceedingly.

8. To degrade.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

Synonyms

(bend oneself forwards and downwards):

• bend down
• crouch
• squat

Derived terms

• stoop and roop

Translations

Noun

stoop (plural stoops)

1. A stooping, bent position of the body.

   The old man walked with a stoop.

   • 2011, Phil McNulty, Euro 2012: Montenegro 2-2 England [3]

     Theo Walcott's final pass has often drawn criticism but there could be no complaint in the 11th minute when his perfect delivery to the far post only required a stoop and a nod of the head from Young to put England ahead.

2. An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.
   • 1819, Washington Irving, Bracebridge Hall: Hawking:

     At length the hawk got the upper hand, and made a rushing stoop at her quarry

Derived terms

• stoopy

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse stolpe.

Alternative forms

• stoup

Noun

stoop (plural stoops)

1. (dialect) A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.

Derived terms

• stoup and room

Etymology 4

From Old English stope.

Noun

stoop (plural stoops)

1. A vessel for holding liquids; a flagon.

Alternative forms

• stoup, stowp

Anagrams

• Spoto, poots, topos