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- California stop
- (colloquial, parts of the US) A rolling stop at a stop sign
- a quick drop and a sudden stop
- A fall to one’s death, especially by hanging
If you were lucky enough to survive all this lunacy, you always risked capture. There your story would end with a quick drop and a sudden stop, for piracy was punishable by hanging.
- band-stop
- Filtering out a specific range of electromagnetic frequencies
- boulevard stop
- A very brief halt in a vehicle
I made a boulevard stop and a left turn.
- bus stop
- a place where public transport busses stop to allow passengers to board or leave
- f-stop
- Any of the discrete steps or stopping points for adjusting the aperture of a lens, either marked on a ring on the lens and adjusted by rotating that ring or marked in the display of a digital camera and adjusted by buttons or touch-sensitive controls
If you're shooting at an f-stop of 2.8, then the lens will take in a lot more light than it would if the f-stop was at 22.
- face that would stop a clock
- A shockingly attractive face
I can remember when you could stop a clock.
- face that would stop a clock
- A shockingly unattractive face
Archie was an artist, finely chiselled, the type girls go for like catnip. He . . . was expected to marry an American heiress. But she loved a muscular curate with a face that would stop a clock.
- full stop
- The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation)
- full stop
- Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking
We need more people to join IRC, full stop.
- full-stop
- Attributive form of full stop, noun
- glottal stop
- A plosive sound articulated with the glottis
- long stop
- A fielding position, now confined to the amateur game, behind the wicket-keeper (so as to retrieve balls that the wicket-keeper misses); a fielder in this position
- mail stop
- The delivery point where Mail Services delivers and collects mail
Like any other large American corporation, we have mail stops on every floor or each building, for inter- and intra-office mail.
- my my
- An extension of my! used to express surprise or pleasure. Also "my my my!"
- one-stop
- Describing a service operation at which all of a customer's needs may be satisfied without visiting another
- one-stop
- Describing the act of using such an operation
- organ stop
- the timbre so produced
- organ stop
- any of many knobs near the keyboard of an organ used to select different sounds or timbres
- pit stop
- A stop made during an automobile race at the pit to refuel and perform other periodic maintenance on the vehicle
- pit stop
- A brief stop for fuel, rest and/or refreshment during an automobile journey
- put a stop to
- To terminate or abolish something
- reed stop
- An organ stop having the tone of a reed instrument
- rolling stop
- An automobile driving maneuver in which a driver slows down, but does not stop, at a stop sign
- short stop
- Alternative spelling of shortstop
- stop
- A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off
They agreed to see each other at the bus stop.
- stop
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon
- stop
- To close or block an opening
He stopped the wound with gauze.
- stop
- To cease moving
I stopped at the traffic lights.
- stop
- To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing
The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.
- stop
- To adjust the aperture of a camera lens
To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.
- stop
- A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible
- stop
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel
That stop was not planned.
- stop
- To tarry
He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.
- stop
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object; as, a door stop
- stop
- A button that activates the stop function
- stop
- Prone to halting or hesitation
He’s stop still.
- stop
- The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones
The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.
- stop
- A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis
- stop
- To stay a while
He stopped for two weeks at the inn.
- stop
- To come to an end
Soon the rain will stop.
- stop
- A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player
- stop
- To cause (something) to come to an end
The referees stopped the fight.
- stop
- Short for a stopper, used in the phrase 'pull out all the stops'
- stop
- A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ
The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.
- stop
- An f-stop
- stop and smell the roses
- To relax; to take time out of one's busy schedule to enjoy or appreciate the beauty of life
Slow down. Stop and smell the roses now and then.
- stop at nothing
- To take any measures to do or achieve something, especially if it involves great risk or danger; to do everything in one's power
He will stop at nothing to destroy his enemies.
- stop codon
- , a sequence of three RNA nucleotides (A, C, G or U) that instruct the synthesis, or translation, of a protein to stop. The three-letter stop codon sequences have been given names: "UAG" is amber, "UGA" is opal, and "UAA" is ochre
- stop dead
- to stop suddenly
- stop down
- To decrease the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a lower number to an f/stop represented by a higher number
To get an image with a larger “depth of field”—ie, where more of the distant objects as well as the nearer ones in a scene are in focus—the photographer must “stop down” the aperture of the lens, restricting the amount of light admitted.
- stop list
- A list of words or other data items which, for some special reason, should be ignored or bypassed by a particular data processing operation
If you equip your search engine with a stop list containing a few common words such as a, the, and and, you can decrease the full-text index size by about 20%.
- stop list
- A list of people who subscribe to a publication (e.g., newspaper) and no longer wish to receive it
- stop lists
- plural form of stop list
- stop loss order
- A conditional order placed with a stockbroker (or similar) to close one's position if the market drops to a specified price level
The shares are currently trading at $4.40 and he has issued a stop loss order to sell if they fall to $4.20.
- stop off
- To make a short visit somewhere, especially on the way to another place
It's a long drive across Texas, so we're going to stop off in Austin for a night.
- stop on a dime
- to stop dead; stop suddenly
Don't tell me to drive real fast in this heavy traffic. You know I can't stop on a dime.
- stop over
- To interrupt one's journey for a short (sometimes overnight) stay; to stop off
- stop press
- Used to grab attention, implying importance, news-worthiness, etc
- stop press
- The event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of a publication, particularly of a newspaper edition
Stop press” is the latest news, usually printed on the back of the paper.).
- stop press
- Used to announce an event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of publication, particularly of a newspaper edition
- stop short
- To come to a sudden and unexpected stop, particularly while speaking or driving a vehicle
- stop short
- Usually with of, to voluntarily cease an attempt to reach a certain point
- stop sign
- A red sign on the street telling cars to stop
- stop signs
- plural form of stop sign
- stop someone in his tracks
- To prevent someone from continuing along a path or way, literal or figurative, he has begun going along
- stop the car
- When giving directions to a person (for example, a taxi driver), indicates that he or she should stop the vehicle
- stop the lights
- An interjection expressing exasperation or incredulity. or to illustrate the humour in a situation
Oh, stop the lights. The Priest is after parkin' across the street. I think he's comin' over here.
- stop the presses
- An imperative form used to introduce especially new, important, surprising, or recent developments
- stop up
- To fill a hole or cavity, or block an opening or passage, as with a plug
So then we . . . scratched around and found an old tin washpan, and stopped up the holes as well as we could.
- stop up
- To increase the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a higher number to an f/stop represented by a lower number and causing more light to pass into the camera
To stop down means to narrow the aperture; to stop up or open up means to expand it.
- stop valve
- A valve that may be turned to regulate the flow of fluid through a pipe (especially water through a mains supply)
- stop word
- a word, usually one of a series in a stop list, that is to be ignored by a search engine etc
- stop words
- plural form of stop word
- stop-gap
- A temporary measure or short-term fix used until something better can be obtained
The small company uses their new product features as a stop-gap until they can develop a new product.
- stop-gap
- Temporary; short-term
They put a stop-gap solution in place, but need something more permanent.
- stop-loss order
- Alternative spelling of stop loss order
- stop-motion
- An animation technique wherein physical objects are slightly altered and photographed one picture at a time to give an illusion of movement when displayed in sequence
- stop-over
- A short interruption in a journey or the place visited during such an interruption
- stop-over
- Alternative spelling of stopover
- suction stop
- A voice stop in the formation of which air behind the articulation is rarefied with consequent inrush of air when articulation is broken
- tram stop
- a designated point on a tram route where passengers may board or leave the tram
- whistle-stop
- A small train station
- whistle-stop
- Extremely brief and hurried
We've only got 30 minutes at the stadium, so I'll give you a whistle-stop tour.
- whistle-stop train tour
- A tour in a political campaign that makes many brief stops in small communities
- whistle-stop train tour
- Any travel that's quick and with only brief pauses
- stop
- {n} a cessation of motion, pause, prohibition, obstacle, point in writing, regulation in music
- stop
- {v} to hinder form going on, stand still, suppress, stay, regulate, close
- long stop
- Long stop can refer to: In phonology, a type of stop consonant; in cricket, a largely-obsolete fielding position
- stop out
- Stay out later than usual
It was a real treat being allowed to stop out late.
- sudden stop
- (Ekonomi) A sudden stop in capital flows is defined as a sudden slowdown in private capital inflows into emerging market economies, and a corresponding sharp reversal from large current account deficits into smaller deficits or small surpluses. Sudden stops are usually followed by a sharp decrease in output, private spending and credit to the private sector, and real exchange rate appreciation. The term “sudden stop” was inspired by a banker’s comment on a paper by Dornbusch and Werner about Mexico, that “it is not speed that kills, it is the sudden stop”
