Commentary: STOP[+event] halt, stoppage - the event o something ending
Examples:
It came to a stop at the bottom of the hill.
You must come to a complete stop at the end of the street.
The third baseman made some remarkable stops.
His stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood.
The first good stop of the game was in the third quarter at 4:27pm.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 1 2
Commentary: STOP[+event] stopover, layover - a brief stay in the course of a journey
Examples:
That stop lasted over an hour.
This flight was cheaper because of the three hour stop in Chicago.
They made a stopver to visit friends.
His next stop is Atlanta.
I'm getting off of the train at the next stop.
Our next stop will not be for two hours so use the toilets now.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 3 5
Commentary: STOP[+event] arrest, heck, halt, hitch, stay, stoppage - the state of inactivity following an interruption
Examples:
During the fifth stop he got some lunch.
The momentary stop enabled him to escape.
He spent the entire stop in his seat.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 4
Commentary: catch - a restraint that checks the motion of something
Examples:
George put a stop over the drain to give Fido a bath.
He used a book as a stop to hold the door open.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 10
Commentary: blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stoppage - an obstruction in a pipe or tube
Examples:
After John left, Mary spent an hour clearing the stop in the toilet.
We had to call a plumber to clear out the stop in the drainpipe.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 11
Commentary: stop consonant, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive - a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
Examples:
His stop consonants are too aspirated.
She found it difficult to palatal stops with her new retainer.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 6
Commentary: period, point, full stop, full point - a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
Examples:
In England they call a period a stop.
The stop at the end of the third sentence is missing.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 7
Commentary: diaphragm a mechanical divide in a camera that control size of aperture of the lens
Examples:
The new cameras adjust the stop automatically.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 9
Commentary: (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
Examples:
The organist pulled out all the stops.
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WordNet 2.0 Sense Numbers: 8