stop
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(noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends" |
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Synonyms: layover, stopover |
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Related Words: night-stop, stand, stay |
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(noun) the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops" |
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Synonyms: stoppage |
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Related Words: act, arrest, check, human action, human activity, stay |
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(verb) cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief" |
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Related Words: arrest, brake, bring up, cut, draw up, flag down, halt, hold, pull up, rein, rein in, stall |
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Antonyms: start |
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(verb) come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" |
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Synonyms: halt |
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Related Words: brake, check, conk, draw up, go off, halt, haul up, pull up, rein, rein in, settle, stall |
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Antonyms: start |
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(verb) interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence" |
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Synonyms: stop over |
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Related Words: lay over, stop over |
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(verb) stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process" |
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Synonyms: block, halt, kibosh |
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Related Words: embargo, forbid, foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent, stay |
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(noun) (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes; "the organist pulled out all the stops" |
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Related Words: knob |
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(noun) the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill" |
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Synonyms: halt |
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Related Words: cessation, conclusion, ending, stand, standstill, surcease, tie-up |
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(noun) a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta" |
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Related Words: bus stop, checkpoint, loading area, loading zone, place, spot, stopover, topographic point |
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(verb) seize on its way, such as a letter; "intercept a messenger" |
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Synonyms: intercept |
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Related Words: catch, cut off, cut out, grab, take hold of |
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(verb) put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" |
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Synonyms: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, quit |
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Related Words: break, cheese, close off, drop, knock off, retire, shut off, sign off, withdraw |
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(verb) have end in a certain location; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other" |
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Synonyms: terminate |
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Related Words: discontinue |
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(noun) a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open" |
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Synonyms: catch |
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Related Words: click, constraint, detent, dog, doorstop, doorstopper, pawl, restraint, trip, tripper |
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(noun) controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically" |
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Synonyms: diaphragm |
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Related Words: iris, iris diaphragm, mechanical device |
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(noun) a consonant produced by stopping air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated" |
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Synonyms: occlusive, plosive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop consonant |
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Related Words: click, consonant, glottal catch, glottal plosive, glottal stop, labial stop, suction stop |
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(verb) stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"; "We broke at noon" |
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Synonyms: break, hold on |
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Related Words: break, interrupt |
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(verb) prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break the silence" |
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Synonyms: break, break off, discontinue |
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Related Words: bog, bog down, break up, cut off, disrupt, end, fracture, interrupt, leave off, terminate |
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(verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in SE Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement" |
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Synonyms: arrest, check, contain, hold back, turn back |
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Related Words: cut down, cut out, defend |
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(noun) a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop" |
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Synonyms: full point, full stop, period, point |
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Related Words: punctuation, punctuation mark, suspension point |
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(noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" |
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Synonyms: block, blockage, closure, occlusion, stoppage |
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Related Words: breech closer, breechblock, impediment, impedimenta, obstruction, plug, stopper, stopple, vapor lock, vapour lock |
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(noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "he spent the entire stay in his room" |
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Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stoppage |
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Related Words: deadlock, impasse, inaction, inactiveness, inactivity, logjam, stalemate, standstill |
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