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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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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.