STOP — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
stop
A brief stay in the course of a journey.
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- They made a stopover to visit their friends.
The act of stopping something.
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- The third baseman made some remarkable stops.
- His stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood.
An obstruction in a pipe or tube.
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- We had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe.
A restraint that checks the motion of something.
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- He used a book as a stop to hold the door open.
A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens.
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- The new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically.
(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes.
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- The organist pulled out all the stops.
A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations.
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- In England they call a period a stop.
A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it.
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- His stop consonants are too aspirated.
The event of something ending.
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- It came to a stop at the bottom of the hill.
A spot where something halts or pauses.
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- His next stop is Atlanta.
The state of inactivity following an interruption.
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- The negotiations were in arrest.
- Held them in check.
- During the halt he got some lunch.
- The momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow.
- He spent the entire stop in his seat.
Prevent completion.
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- Stop the project.
- Break off the negociations.
Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments.
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- Hold on a moment!
Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of.
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- Arrest the downward trend.
- Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia.
- Contain the rebel movement.
- Turn back the tide of communism.
Seize on its way.
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- The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace.
Render unsuitable for passage.
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- Block the way.
- Barricade the streets.
- Stop the busy road.
Cause to stop.
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- Stop a car.
- Stop the thief.
Come to a halt, stop moving.
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- The car stopped.
- She stopped in front of a store window.
Interrupt a trip.
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- We stopped at Aunt Mary's house.
- They stopped for three days in Florence.
Stop from happening or developing.
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- Block his election.
- Halt the process.
Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.
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- The bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed.
- Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other.
- My property ends by the bushes.
- The symphony end.
Put an end to a state or an activity.
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- Quit teasing your little brother.
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