| 单词 | stop |
| 释义 | Word Frequency stop(stɒp) verbWord forms: stops, stopping or 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. (transitive) to prevent the continuance or completion of to stop a show 4. (transitive; often foll by from) to prevent or restrain to stop George from fighting 5. (transitive) to keep back to stop supplies to the navy 6. (transitive) to intercept or hinder in transit to stop a letter 7. (transitive; often foll by up) to block or plug, esp so as to close to stop up a pipe 8. (transitive; often foll by up) to fill a hole or opening in to stop up a wall 9. (transitive) to staunch or stem to stop a wound 10. (transitive) to instruct a bank not to honour (a cheque) 11. (transitive) to deduct (money) from pay 12. (transitive) British to provide with punctuation 13. (transitive) boxing to beat (an opponent) either by a knockout or a technical knockout 14. (transitive) informal to receive (a blow, hit, etc) 15. (intransitive) to stay or rest we stopped at the Robinsons' for three nights 16. (transitive) rare to defeat, beat, or kill 17. (transitive) 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 (afinger hole, etc) c. to produce (a note) in this manner 18. (transitive) to place a hand inside (the bell of a French horn) to alter the tone colour and pitch or play (a note) on a Frenchhorn 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 noun 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. British a punctuation mark, esp a full stop 29. Also called: stop thrust fencing a counterthrust made without a parry in the hope that one's blade will touch before one's opponent's blade 30. short for stop payment, 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 33. Australian 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. Also called: stop consonant phonetics 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) Compare continuant 37. Also called: f-stop photography a. a setting of the aperture of a camera lens, calibrated to the corresponding f-number b. another name for diaphragm (sense 4) 38. a block or carving used to complete the end of a moulding 39. Also called: stopper bridge a protecting card or winner in a suit in which one's opponents are strong Derived forms stoppable (ˈstoppable) adjective Word origin 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 |
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