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Stoppable
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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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| stop (stɒp) | |
| —vb (often foll by from) (often foll by up) (often foll by up) , stops, stopping, stopped | |
| 1. | to cease from doing or being (something); discontinue: stop talking |
| 2. | to cause (something moving) to halt or (of something moving) to come to a halt: to stop a car; the car stopped |
| 3. | (tr) to prevent the continuance or completion of: to stop a show |
| 4. | to prevent or restrain: to stop George from fighting |
| 5. | (tr) to keep back: to stop supplies to the navy |
| 6. | (tr) to intercept or hinder in transit: to stop a letter |
| 7. | to block or plug, esp so as to close: to stop up a pipe |
| 8. | to fill a hole or opening in: to stop up a wall |
| 9. | (tr) to staunch or stem: to stop a wound |
| 10. | (tr) to instruct a bank not to honour (a cheque) |
| 11. | (tr) to deduct (money) from pay |
| 12. | (Brit) (tr) to provide with punctuation |
| 13. | (tr) boxing to beat (an opponent) either by a knockout or a technical knockout |
| 14. | informal (tr) to receive (a blow, hit, etc) |
| 15. | (intr) to stay or rest: we stopped at the Robinsons' for three nights |
| 16. | rare (tr) to defeat, beat, or kill |
| 17. | (tr) music |
| a. to alter the vibrating length of (a string on a violin, guitar, etc) by pressing down on it at some point with the finger | |
| b. to alter the vibrating length of an air column in a wind instrument by closing (a finger hole, etc) | |
| c. to produce (a note) in this manner | |
| 18. | (tr) to place a hand inside (the bell of a French horn) to alter the tone colour and pitch or play (a note) on a French horn in such a manner |
| 19. | bridge to have a protecting card or winner in (a suit in which one's opponents are strong) |
| 20. | stop at nothing to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless |
| —n | |
| 21. | an arrest of movement or progress |
| 22. | the act of stopping or the state of being stopped |
| 23. | a place where something halts or pauses: a bus stop |
| 24. | a stay in or as if in the course of a journey |
| 25. | the act or an instance of blocking or obstructing |
| 26. | a plug or stopper |
| 27. | a block, screw, or other device or object that prevents, limits, or terminates the motion of a mechanism or moving part |
| 28. | (Brit) a punctuation mark, esp a full stop |
| 29. | fencing Also called: stop thrust a counterthrust made without a parry in the hope that one's blade will touch before one's opponent's blade |
| 30. | stop payment short for stop order |
| 31. | music |
| a. the act of stopping the string, finger hole, etc, of an instrument | |
| b. a set of organ pipes or harpsichord strings that may be allowed to sound as a group by muffling or silencing all other such sets | |
| c. a knob, lever, or handle on an organ, etc, that is operated to allow sets of pipes to sound | |
| d. an analogous device on a harpsichord or other instrument with variable registers, such as an electrophonic instrument | |
| 32. | pull out all the stops |
| a. to play at full volume | |
| b. to spare no effort | |
| 33. | (Austral) a stud on a football boot |
| 34. | the angle between the forehead and muzzle of a dog or cat, regarded as a point in breeding |
| 35. | nautical a short length of line or small stuff used as a tie, esp for a furled sail |
| 36. | phonetics Compare continuant Also called: stop consonant any of a class of consonants articulated by first making a complete closure at some point of the vocal tract and then releasing it abruptly with audible plosion. Stops include the labials (p, b), the alveolars or dentals (t, d), the velars (k, g) |
| 37. | photog Also called: f-stop |
| a. a setting of the aperture of a camera lens, calibrated to the corresponding f-number | |
| b. another name for diaphragm | |
| 38. | a block or carving used to complete the end of a moulding |
| 39. | bridge Also called: stopper a protecting card or winner in a suit in which one's opponents are strong |
| [C14: from Old English stoppian (unattested), as in forstoppian to plug the ear, ultimately from Late Latin stuppāre to stop with a tow, from Latin stuppa tow, from Greek stuppē] | |
| 'stoppable | |
| —adj | |
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