Popup Definition–adjective | 1. | (of books, usually children's books) having pieces of artwork fastened to the pages so that when the page is opened, a three-dimensional cutout or object is formed and, sometimes, movement of a picture element, such as a door opening, can be activated by pulling a tab. | | 2. | of or being a device that ejects or raises a finished or used item from the top: a pop-up toaster. | | 3. | of or pertaining to a device, mechanism, or object that rises or pivots from a concealed or recessed position to its operating position: a camera with a pop-up electronic flash; a car with pop-up headlights. | | 4. | popping up, as from an appliance or object: pop-up waffles heated in the toaster; a pop-up gauge for indicating when the turkey is done. | –noun | 6. | something, as a partially cut out or spring-mounted illustration in a children's book, that unfolds or springs up when opened or otherwise activated; pop-out: a Christmas card with a pop-up of Santa Claus. | |
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Stop Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running. | | 2. | to cause to cease; pu
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t an end to: to stop noise in the street. | | 3. | to interrupt, arrest, or check (a course, proceeding, process, etc.): Stop your work just a minute. | | 4. | to cut off, intercept, or withhold: to stop supplies. | | 5. | to restrain, hinder, or prevent (usually fol. by from): I couldn't stop him from going. | | 6. | to prevent from proceeding, acting, operating, continuing, etc.: to stop a speaker; to stop a car. | | 7. | to block, obstruct, or close (a passageway, channel, opening, duct, etc.) (usually fol. by up): He stopped up the sink with a paper towel. He stopped the hole in the tire with a patch. | | 8. | to fill the hole or holes in (a wall, a decayed tooth, etc.). | | 9. | to close (a container, tube, etc.) with a cork, plug, bung, or the like. | | 10. | to close the external orifice of (the ears, nose, mouth, etc.). | | 11. | Sports. | a. | to check (a stroke, blow, etc.); parry; ward off. | | b. | to defeat (an opposing player or team): The Browns stopped the Colts. | | c. | Boxing. to defeat by a knockout or technical knockout: Louis stopped Conn in the 13th round. | | | 12. | Banking. to notify a bank to refuse payment of (a check) upon presentation. | | 13. | Bridge. to have an honor card and a sufficient number of protecting cards to keep an opponent from continuing to win in (a suit). | | 14. | Music. | a. | to close (a fingerhole) in order to produce a pa
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rticular note from a wind instrument. | | b. | to press down (a string of a violin, viola, etc.) in order to alter the pitch of the tone produced from it. | | c. | to produce (a particular note) by so doing. | | –verb (used without object) | 15. | to come to a stand, as in a course or journey; halt. | | 16. | to cease moving, proceeding, speaking, acting, operating, etc.; to pause; desist. | | 17. | to cease; come to an end. | | 18. | to halt for a brief visit (often fol. by at, in, or by): He is stopping at the best hotel in town. | | 19. | stop by, to make a brief visit on one's way elsewhere: I'll stop by on my way home. | –noun | 21. | a cessation or arrest of movement, action, operation, etc.; end: The noise came to a stop. Put a stop to that behavior! | | 22. | a stay or sojourn made at a place, as in the course of a journey: Above all, he enjoyed his stop in Trieste. | | 23. | a place where trains or other vehicles halt to take on and discharge passengers: Is this a bus stop? | | 24. | a closing or filling up, as of a hole. | | 25. | a blocking or obstructing, as of a passage or channel. | | 26. | a plug or other stopper for an opening. | | 27. | an obstacle, impediment, or hindrance. | | 28. | any piece or device that serves to check or control movement or action in a mechanism. | | 29. | Architecture. a feature terminating a molding or chamfer. | | 30. | Commerce. | a. | an order to refuse payment of a check. | | | 31. | Music. | a. | the act of closing a fingerhole or pressing a string of an instrument in order to produce a particular note. | | b. | a device or contrivance, as on an instrument, for accomplishing this. | | c. | (in an organ) a graduated set of pipes of the same kind and giving tones of the same quality. | | d. | Also called stop knob. a knob or handle that is drawn out or pushed back to permit or prevent the sounding of such a set of pipes or to control some other part of the organ. | | e. | (in a reed organ) a group of reeds functioning like a pipe-organ stop. | | | 32. | Sports. an individual defensive play or act that prevents an opponent or opposing team from scoring, advancing, or gaining an advantage, as a
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catch in baseball, a tackle in football, or the deflection of a shot in hockey. | | 33. | Nautical. a piece of small line used to lash or fasten something, as a furled sail. | | 34. | Phonetics. | a. | an articulation that interrupts the flow of air from the lungs. | | b. | a consonant sound characterized by stop articulation, as p, b, t, d, k, and g. Compare continuant. | | | 35. | Photography. the diaphragm opening of a lens, esp. as indicated by an f- number. | | 37. | any of various marks used as punctuation at the end of a sentence, esp. a period. | | 38. | the word “stop” printed in the body of a telegram or cablegram to indicate a period. | | 39. | stops, (used with a singular verb ) a family of card games whose object is to play all of one's cards in a predetermined sequence before one's opponents. | | 40. | Zoology. a depression in the face of certain animals, esp. dogs, marking the division between the forehead and the projecting part of the muzzle. | —Verb phrases | 41. | stop down, Photography. (on a camera) to reduce (the diaphragm opening of a lens). | | 42. | stop in, to make a brief, incidental visit: If you're in town, be sure to stop in. | | 43. | stop off, to halt for a brief stay at some point on the way elsewhere: On the way to Rome we stopped off at Florence. | | 44. | stop out, | a. | to mask (certain areas of an etching plate, photographic negative, etc.) with varnish, paper, or the like, to prevent their being etched, printed, etc. | | b. | to withdraw temporarily from school: Most of the students who stop out eventually return to get their degrees. | | | 45. | stop over, to stop briefly in the course of a journey: Many motorists were forced to stop over in that town because of floods. | —Idiom | 46. | pull out all the stops, | a. | to use every means available. | | b. | to express, do, or carry out something without reservation. | | |
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