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- English Word Stop Definition 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.
- English Word Stop Definition The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.
- English Word Stop Definition In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.
- English Word Stop Definition A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.
- English Word Stop Definition A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.
- English Word Stop Definition The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- English Word Stop Definition The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.
- English Word Stop Definition Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed.
- English Word Stop-gap Definition That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.
- English Word Stop-over Definition Permitting one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket. See To stop over, under Stop, v. i.
- English Word Stopcock Definition A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc.
- English Word Stopcock Definition The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet.
- English Word Stope Definition A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
- English Word Stope Definition To excavate in the form of stopes.
- English Word Stope Definition To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
- English Word Stope Definition Alt. of Stopen
- English Word Stoped Definition of Stope
- English Word Stopen Definition Stepped; gone; advanced.
- English Word Stoping Definition of Stope
- English Word Stoping Definition The act of excavating in the form of stopes.
- English Word Stopless Definition Not to be stopped.
- English Word Stoppage Definition The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
- English Word Stopped Definition of Stop
- English Word Stopped Definition Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.).
- English Word Stopper Definition One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.
- English Word Stopper Definition A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something.
- English Word Stopper Definition A name to several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies; as, the red stopper. See Eugenia.
- English Word Stopper Definition To close or secure with a stopper.
- English Word Stoppered Definition of Stopper
- English Word Stoppering Definition of Stopper