Word Finder - stops

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A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.

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They agreed to meet at the bus stop.

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An action of stopping; interruption of travel.

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That stop was not planned.

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That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.

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A device intended to block the path of a moving object

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door stop

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A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.

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• occlusive
• plosive

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A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.

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A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.

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The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.

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One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.

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A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.

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The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.

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The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.

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A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.

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A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.

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An f-stop.

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The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.

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A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.

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To cease moving.

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I stopped at the traffic lights.

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To not continue.

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Soon the rain will stop.

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To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.

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The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.

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To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).

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One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.

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To cause (something) to come to an end.

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The referees stopped the fight.

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To close or block an opening.

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He stopped the wound with gauze.

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(often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.

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To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.

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To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.

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He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.

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To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.

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To punctuate.

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To make fast; to stopper.

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A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.

Nothing stops him, ever.

Four stops later, she rose and tucked the book away, wading through the throngs of people to the door as the train slowed.

If the coin is light the rod S fits into the uppermost step and the shoot stops over the right-hand slot.

If the coin is heavy, S fits into the lowest step and the shoot stops over the left-hand slot.

The machine can be set to deliver a certain number of coins, after which the counting wheel stops automatically.

From time to time the emigration takes the shape of a mass movement, which the government stops by forcible measures.

Next follows the operation of cleaning, in which the silk is simply reeled from one bobbin to another, but on its way it passes through a slit which is sufficiently wide to pass the filament but stops the motion when a thick lump or nib is presented.

Each separate strand passes through the eye of a faller, which, should the fibre break, falls down and instantly stops the machine, thus effectually calling attention to the fact that a thread has failed.

For this second part he has consulted historical documents, but he stops at the year 1087, just when he has reached the period about which he might have been able to give us some first-hand information.

But the efficiency of this preventive stops short at the point of saving human life.

Here he stops; according to him substance is eternal and eternally subject to the law of substance; and God is the eternal force or energy of substance.

Wundt, however, having gone so far, there stops.

Here you would expect him to stop, as the German Neo-Kantism of Lange stops, with the consistent conclusion that all we know of Nature from such data is these complexes of sensation-elements, or phenomena in the Kantian meaning.

After wildly circling about, and reaching a height at which it appears a mere speck, where it winnows a random zigzag course, it abruptly shoots downwards and aslant, and then as abruptly stops to regain its former elevation, and this process it repeats many times.

A simple sporophore may be merely a single short hypha, the end of which stops growing and becomes cut off as a conidium by the formation of a septum, which then splits and allows the conidium to fall.

The blower therefore stops the process when he has blown a predetermined quantity of air through, counting from the drop of the flame; but as a check on his forecast he usually tests the blown metal before recarburizing it.

Primary education is supposed to continue till the age of fourteen, but in practice it stops at twelve for all who do not intend to pass through the middle schools, which is essential for all persons seeking state employment of any kind.

The cardiac contractions become irregular, the ventricle assumes curious shapes - "hour-glass," &c. - becomes very pale and bloodless, and finally the heart stops in a state of spasm, which shortly afterwards becomes rigor-mortis.

These " stops," as they are termed, are generally placed at regular intervals, or rather they should be left where any inequality of the current is observed.

Heaps of stones answer very well for stops in the conductor, particularly immediately below the points of junction with the feeders.

The earth-stopper "stops out" and "puts to" - the first expression signifying blocking, during the night, earths and drains to which foxes resort, the second performing the same duties in the morning so as to prevent the fox from getting to ground when he has been found.

Nicola (now suppressed), the buildings of which occupy an area of about 21 acres and contain the museum, a library, observatory, &c. The church, dating, like the rest of the buildings, from 16 931 735, is the largest in Sicily, and the organ, built in 1760 by Donato del Piano, with 72 stops and 2916 pipes, is very fine.

This done, the stops s and t are clamped and adjusted so that when arm r comes in contact with the screw of stop t the telescope will point due north, and when in contact with s, it will point due south, or vice versa.

The flat axes are distinguished by the side stops and in some cases the transition from palstave to socketed axe can be seen.

The route chosen was through the Southern states, where many stops were made, and where the president delivered brief addresses.

It then either stops naturally, owing to the fact that the yeast cells will not work rapidly in a liquid containing more than a certain percentage of alcohol, or it is stopped artificially either by the addition of spirit or by other means which will be referred to below.

At this point Cudworth stops; he does not attempt to give any list of Moral Ideas.

The main object is to see that the liquids are distributed evenly while the fibre is passing through, and to stop the supply when the machine stops or when no fibre is passing.

Much damage is often caused by species of Peridermium, which often invade the cortex and cambium to such an extent as to " ring " the stem or branch, or to cause an abnormal formation of turpentine which soaks into the wood and stops the upward passage of water; this causes the parts above the diseased area to perish.

This is of octagonal form, with very numerous parallel hedges and paths, and "six different entrances, whereof there is but one that leads to the centre, and that is attended with some difficulties and a great many stops."

The key to reach this resting place is to keep the right hand continuously in contact with the hedge from first to last, going round all the stops.

Hence quinine stops the process of diapedesis or emigration of the leucocytes from the blood-vessels into the tissues, and if applied to the, extravascular spaces it arrests the leucocytic movements there.

As the uppermost compartment fills, the weights end of the beam rises, and by means of a vertical rod suc - cessively operates on detents connected with the rotation of the two brushes, and stops them in turn.

By experience with the class of coal used and the adjustment of the stops in the shoot, the charge can be run into the retort to form an even layer of any desired depth.

Jennifer stops Brian from making a rather abrupt exit to check the stock.

Oxygen is only involved at the very last stage of respiration as the final electron acceptor, but without the whole respiratory chain stops.

But as he gets more ambitious, a bust stops Jung temporarily.

People who have aplastic anemia have bone marrow that just stops working right.

The stops labeled ' flute ', ' horn ' and ' vox angelica ' were pulled out, ready for use.

He often stops the evil schemes of his father without personal animosity.

She also has a long yellow beak that hardly ever stops talking!

Few favored spots slight bobble in pit stops will.

Ideas are developed in a sequence of sentences, sometimes demarcated by capital letters and full stops.

When a person's heart and breathing stops it's sometimes possible to restart the heart using cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR ).

The net was also fitted with an illegal top-side chafer which stops immature fish escaping.

Attachments for tool post, Travel stops Three & four jaw chucks, sliding chuck guard with view window.

This stops the bleeding and the blood will then coagulate or thicken into a scab.

I more or less kept going till reaching the col with just a few short stops for water along the way.

St. Joan's wort oil stops cold sores in their tracks and can even relieve genital herpes symptoms.

For the exposure compensation setting, I have found that +0.5 to +1 stops seems to work best for my set-up.