Stop Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running. |
| 2. | to cause to cease; put 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. |
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| 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 particular 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. |
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–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. |
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| 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
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| 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. <
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| 29. | Architecture. a feature terminating a molding or chamfer. |
| 30. | Commerce. | a. | an order to refuse payment of a check. |
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| 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. |
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| 32. | Sports. an individual defensive play or act that prevents an opponent or opposing team from scoring, advancing, or gaining an advantage, as a 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| b. | to express, do, or carry out something without reservation. |
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Pop Definition–verb (used without object) | 1. | to make a short, quick, explosive sound: The cork popped. |
| 2. | to burst open with such a sound, as chestnuts or corn in roasting. |
| 3. | to come or go quickly, suddenly, or unexpectedly: She popped into the kitchen to check the stove. |
| 4. | to shoot with a firearm: to pop at a mark. |
| 5. | to protrude from the sockets: The news made her eyes pop. |
| 6. | Baseball. | a. | to hit a pop fly (often fol. by up). |
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–verb (used with object) | 7. | to cause to make a sudden, explosive sound. |
| 8. | to cause to burst open with such a sound. |
| 9. | to open suddenly or violently: to pop the hood on a car; to pop the tab on a beer can. |
| 10. | to put or thrust quickly, suddenly, or unexpectedly: He popped the muffins into the oven. |
| 11. | Informal. to cause to fire; discharge: He popped his rifle at the bird. |
| 12. | to shoot (usually fol. by at, off, etc.): He popped off bottles with a slingshot. |
| 13. | British Slang. to pawn. |
| 14. | Informal. | a. | to take or swallow (pills), esp. in excess or habitually; take orally in a compulsive or addictive way: Popping all those pills will land him in the hospital. |
| b. | to eat in a continual or thoughtless manner, as snack foods: popping peanuts at the movies. |
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–noun | 15. | a short, quick, explosive sound. |
| 17. | a shot with a firearm. |
| 19. | a drink or portion of an alcoholic beverage, as a drink of whiskey or a glass of beer: We had a couple of pops on the way home. |
–adverb | 21. | with an explosive sound: The balloon went pop. |
| 22. | quickly, suddenly, or unexpectedly: Pop, the door flew open! |
–adjective | 23. | Informal. unexpected; without prior warning or announcement: The teacher gave us a pop quiz. |
—Verb phrases| 24. | pop for, Slang. to pay or buy for oneself or another, esp. as a gift or treat; spring for: I'll pop for the first round of drinks. |
| 25. | pop off, Informal.
| b. | to depart, esp. abruptly. |
| c. | to express oneself volubly or excitedly and sometimes irately or indiscreetly: He popped off about the injustice of the verdict. |
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| 26. | pop out, Baseball. to be put out by hitting a pop fly caught on the fly by a player on the opposing team. |
| 27. | pop up, Baseball. to hit a pop fly. |
—Idioms| 28. | a pop, Slang. each; apiece: five orchids at $30 a pop. |
| 29. | pop in, Informal. to visit briefly and unexpectedly; stop in; drop by: Maybe we'll pop in after the movie. |
| 30. | pop the question, Informal. to propose marriage: They dated for two years before he popped the question. |
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Window Definition–noun | 1. | an opening in the wall of a building, the side of a vehicle, etc., for the admission of air or light, or both, commonly fitted with a frame in which are set movable sashes containing panes of glass. |
| 2. | such an opening with the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or any other device, by which it is closed. |
| 3. | the frame, sashes, and panes of glass, or the like, intended to fit such an opening: Finally the builders put in the windows. |
| 5. | anything likened to a window in appearance or function, as a transparent section in an envelope, displaying the address. |
| 6. | a period of time regarded as highly favorable for initiating or completing something: Investors have a window of perhaps six months before interest rates rise. |
| 7. | Military. chaff1 (def. 5). |
| 9. | Pharmacology. the drug dosage range that results in a therapeutic effect, a lower dose being insufficient and a higher dose being toxic. |
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| 11. | Computers. a section of a display screen that can be created for viewing information from another part of a file or from another file: The split screen feature enables a user to create two or more windows. |
–verb (used with object) | 12. | to furnish with a window or windows. |
| 13. | Obsolete. to display or put in a window. |
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