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Määritelmät

Verbi

1. (intransitive) To cease moving.
2. (intransitive) Not to continue.
3. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
4. (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
5. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
6. (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
7. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
8. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
9. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
10. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
11. (obsolete) To punctuate.
12. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
13. (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
14. (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.

Substantiivi

1. (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
2. (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
3. A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
4. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
5. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
6. A device intended to block the path of a moving object
7. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
8. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
9. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
10. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
11. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
12. (music) 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.
13. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
14. (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
15. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
16. A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
17. (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
18. (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
19. (photography) An f-stop.
20. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
21. (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
22. (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.