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