stop
noun/stɑːp/
Слово англійською: stop
Переклад stop українською: стоп
Детальний опис
- a place where a bus or train stops regularly for passengers to get on or off
- I get off at the next stop.
- Is this your stop?
- Winchester will be the next station stop.
- (North American English) Where's the nearest subway stop?
- an act of stopping or stopping something; the state of being stopped
- The trip included an overnight stop in Brussels.
- We made several stops along the way.
- She brought the car to a stop.
- Work has temporarily come to a stop while the funding is reviewed.
- It is time to put a stop to the violence.
- They campaigned to put up a stop sign at the busy intersection outside the school.
- (also more frequent full stop, full point)(all British English)(North American English period)the mark ( . ) used at the end of a sentence and in some abbreviations, for example e.g.
- a row of pipes on an organ that produce the different sounds
- a handle on an organ that the player pushes in or pulls out to control the sound produced by the pipes
- a speech sound made by stopping the flow of air coming out of the mouth and then suddenly releasing it, for example p, k, t synonym plosive see also glottal stop see also tab stop
of bus/train
act of stopping
punctuation
music
phonetics
Word OriginOld English (for)stoppian ‘block up (an aperture)’, of West Germanic origin; related to German stopfen, from late Latin stuppare ‘to stuff’.
Idioms
come to a full stop
- to stop completely
- The car began to shudder and eventually came to a full stop in front of the church.
in stops and starts | by/in fits and starts
- frequently starting and stopping again; not continuously
- Babies do not grow at a steady rate but in stops and starts.
pull out all the stops
- (informal) to make the greatest effort possible to achieve somethingTopics Successc2