stop
英 [st?p]
美[stɑp]
- vt. 停止；堵塞；斷絕
- vi. 停止；中止；逗留；被塞住
- n. 停止；車站；障礙；逗留
英英釋意
- 1. the event of something ending;
- "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
- 2. the act of stopping something;
- "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"
- "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
- 3. a brief stay in the course of a journey;
- "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
- 4. the state of inactivity following an interruption;
- "the negotiations were in arrest"
- "held them in check"
- "during the halt he got some lunch"
- "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"
- "he spent the entire stop in his seat"
- 5. a spot where something halts or pauses;
- "his next stop is Atlanta"
- 6. a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it;
- "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
- 7. a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;
- "in England they call a period a stop"
- 8. (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes;
- "the organist pulled out all the stops"
- 9. a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens;
- "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"
- 10. a restraint that checks the motion of something;
- "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
- 11. an obstruction in a pipe or tube;
- "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
