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noun
- A gyroscope.
- A gyrocompass.
- (cycling) Synonym of detangler.
- A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce.
- An autogyro.
- rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction
- a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread
noun
noun
- a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod
- A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
- a journey usually by ship
- a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
- The act of passing over, across, or through something.
- (navigation) An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
- (astronomy) The passage of a celestial body or other object across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
- (Canada, US) Any form of transport that can be used by a member of public (who usually pays a fare), as opposed to private ownership of e.g. cars; short form of public transit or mass transit
- The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
- (astrology) The passage of a celestial body in the horoscope, e.g. through a section or in relation to a specific important point in someone's birth chart.
- (UK, Ireland) A Ford Transit van, see Transit.
verb
- pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place)
- revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction
- cause or enable to pass through
- make a passage or journey from one place to another
- To pass over, across or through something.
- To convey people or goods from one place to another, especially by public transport vehicles.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To make a transit.
- (Internet) To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.
- To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
noun
- a small refracting telescope
- a container made of glass for holding liquids while drinking
- a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
- the quantity a glass will hold
- a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- glassware collectively
- (countable, uncountable, by extension) Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
- A mirror.
- (countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
- (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
- A barometer.
- (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
- (metonymic) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
- A magnifying glass or loupe.
- (uncountable, photography, informal) Lenses, considered collectively.
- (uncountable) Glassware.
- A telescope.
- (usually uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).
- (ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
verb
- put in a glass container
- furnish with glass
- scan (game in the forest) with binoculars
- become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance
- enclose with glass
- (transitive) To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
- (transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.
- (transitive, science fiction) To bombard an area with such intensity (by means of a nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
- (transitive, UK, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
- (intransitive) To become glassy.
- (transitive) To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
- (transitive) To make glassy.
- (transitive) Clipping of fibreglass (“to fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass)”).
- (transitive) To enclose in glass.
noun
- The part of a telescope containing the adjusting device for the eyepiece, etc.
- The part of a lock that transmits motion from the hub to the latch bolt.
- (printing) An ornamental design at the end of a chapter or page.
- (music, lutherie) An element, often triangular, to which the strings of a violin, guitar, etc. are attached at the lower end of an instrument.
- (architecture) A short joist between a header and a wall.
- An appendage or appendix.
- appendage added to extend the length of something
noun
- surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments
- (cartography, astronomy, surveying) A type of sighting device used for measuring angles.
- surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles
noun
- a measuring instrument for measuring angles to a celestial body; similar to a sextant but with 45 degree calibration
- (geometry) The eighth part of a disc; a sector of 45 degrees; half a quadrant.
- (nautical) An instrument for measuring angles, particularly of elevation.
- The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
- (astrology) The aspect of two planets that are 45°, or one-eighth of a circle, apart.
noun
- A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
- (television) A retractable tubular support for lights.
- A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.
- Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
- a magnifier of images of distant objects
verb
- (ambitransitive, mathematics, of a series) To collapse, via cancellation.
- (ambitransitive) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
- (ambitransitive) To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
- (intransitive) To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
- make smaller or shorter
- crush together or collapse
noun
- A small pointed object.
- The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
- (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
- A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
- The footprint of a hare.
- An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
- (slang, vulgar) The penis.
- A feeling of remorse.
- (slang, derogatory) Someone (especially a male) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
- obscene terms for penis
- the act of puncturing with a small point
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
verb
- (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
- (farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
- (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
- To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
- (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
- (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
- (transitive, hunting) To shoot without killing.
- To aim at a point or mark.
- (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
- (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
- (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
- To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
- cause a stinging pain
- stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick
- to stick up
- cause a prickling sensation
- to cause a sharp emotional pain
- make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn
- deliver a sting to
noun
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves
- a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix
- (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration
- (chemistry) A permeable or semipermeable membrane.
- A contraceptive device consisting of a flexible cup, used to cover the cervix during intercourse.
- (anatomy) In mammals, a sheet of muscle separating the thorax from the abdomen, contracted and relaxed in respiration to draw air into and expel air from the lungs.
- (optics, photography) A thin opaque structure with a central aperture, used to limit the passage of light into a camera or similar device.
- (mechanics) A flexible membrane separating two chambers and fixed around its periphery that distends into one or other chamber as the difference in the pressure in the chambers varies.
- (anatomy) Any of various membranes or sheets of muscle or ligament which separate one cavity from another.
- (acoustics) In a speaker, the thin, semi-rigid membrane which vibrates to produce sound.
- (construction) A floor slab, metal wall panel, roof panel or the like, having a sufficiently large in-plane shear stiffness and sufficient strength to transmit horizontal forces to resisting systems.
verb
noun
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- the event of something ending
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the act of stopping something
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.
verb
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- cause to end
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- render unsuitable for passage
- interrupt a trip
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
punct
noun
- A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length.
- A physical object for dividing up a space.
- An electronic device for separating a signal, frequency, etc., into two or more parts.
- A piece of card placed in a ring binder to separate groups of documents.
- The median (US) or central reservation (UK) of a highway or other road where traffic in opposite directions are kept separated.
- One who or that which divides or separates.
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
- a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements
- a person who separates something into parts or groups
noun
noun
- A potentiometer with a linearly sliding control.
- (US, dialect) A red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rubriventris, syn. Pseudemys rugosa).
- Any skink in the genus Lerista, endemic to Australia.
- (cricket) A similar delivery in which the wrist and ring finger work to impart backspin to the ball.
- (skydiving) A rectangle of fabric that helps produce an orderly parachute deployment.
- Synonym of slide (“child's play equipment”).
- A small sandwich, typically served in a warm bun.
- The movable part of a zip fastener that opens or closes the row of teeth.
- (graphical user interface, Internet) A slideshow on a web page.
- An open-toed and backless sandal; a slide.
- (graphical user interface) A widget allowing the user to select a value or position on a sliding scale.
- A sliding door.
- A slider turtle, any turtle in the genus Trachemys, native to the Americas.
- (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by middle and ring fingers yielding a combination of backspin and sidespin, resulting in a motion to the left when thrown by a right handed pitcher.
- (curling) A piece of Teflon or similar material attached to a curling shoe that allows the player to slide along the ice.
- freshwater turtle of United States and South America; frequently raised commercially; some young sold as pets
- a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction
- a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown
- someone who races the luge
noun
- A gyroscope.
- A gyrocompass.
- (cycling) Synonym of detangler.
- A style of Greek sandwich commonly filled with grilled meat, tomato, onions, and tzatziki sauce.
- An autogyro.
- rotating mechanism in the form of a universally mounted spinning wheel that offers resistance to turns in any direction
- a Greek sandwich: sliced roast lamb with onion and tomato stuffed into pita bread
noun
noun
- a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod
- A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
- a journey usually by ship
- a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
- The act of passing over, across, or through something.
- (navigation) An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
- (astronomy) The passage of a celestial body or other object across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
- (Canada, US) Any form of transport that can be used by a member of public (who usually pays a fare), as opposed to private ownership of e.g. cars; short form of public transit or mass transit
- The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
- (astrology) The passage of a celestial body in the horoscope, e.g. through a section or in relation to a specific important point in someone's birth chart.
- (UK, Ireland) A Ford Transit van, see Transit.
verb
- pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place)
- revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction
- cause or enable to pass through
- make a passage or journey from one place to another
- To pass over, across or through something.
- To convey people or goods from one place to another, especially by public transport vehicles.
- (astronomy, intransitive) To make a transit.
- (Internet) To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.
- To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
noun
- a small refracting telescope
- a container made of glass for holding liquids while drinking
- a brittle transparent solid with irregular atomic structure
- the quantity a glass will hold
- a mirror; usually a ladies' dressing mirror
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- glassware collectively
- (countable, uncountable, by extension) Any amorphous solid (one without a regular crystal lattice).
- A mirror.
- (countable) A vessel from which one drinks, especially one made of glass, plastic, or similar translucent or semi-translucent material.
- (attributive, in names of species) Transparent or translucent.
- A barometer.
- (basketball, colloquial) The backboard.
- (metonymic) The quantity of liquid contained in such a vessel.
- A magnifying glass or loupe.
- (uncountable, photography, informal) Lenses, considered collectively.
- (uncountable) Glassware.
- A telescope.
- (usually uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).
- (ice hockey) The clear, protective screen surrounding a hockey rink.
verb
- put in a glass container
- furnish with glass
- scan (game in the forest) with binoculars
- become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance
- enclose with glass
- (transitive) To smooth or polish (leather, etc.), by rubbing it with a glass burnisher.
- (transitive) To fit with glass; to glaze.
- (transitive, science fiction) To bombard an area with such intensity (by means of a nuclear bomb, fusion bomb, etc) as to melt the landscape into glass.
- (transitive, UK, colloquial) To strike (someone), particularly in the face, with a drinking glass with the intent of causing injury.
- (intransitive) To become glassy.
- (transitive) To view through an optical instrument such as binoculars.
- (transitive) To make glassy.
- (transitive) Clipping of fibreglass (“to fit, cover, fill, or build, with fibreglass-reinforced resin composite (fiberglass)”).
- (transitive) To enclose in glass.
noun
- The part of a telescope containing the adjusting device for the eyepiece, etc.
- The part of a lock that transmits motion from the hub to the latch bolt.
- (printing) An ornamental design at the end of a chapter or page.
- (music, lutherie) An element, often triangular, to which the strings of a violin, guitar, etc. are attached at the lower end of an instrument.
- (architecture) A short joist between a header and a wall.
- An appendage or appendix.
- appendage added to extend the length of something
noun
- surveying instrument consisting of the upper movable part of a theodolite including the telescope and its attachments
- (cartography, astronomy, surveying) A type of sighting device used for measuring angles.
- surveying instrument used with a plane table for drawing lines of sight on a distant object and for measuring angles
noun
- a measuring instrument for measuring angles to a celestial body; similar to a sextant but with 45 degree calibration
- (geometry) The eighth part of a disc; a sector of 45 degrees; half a quadrant.
- (nautical) An instrument for measuring angles, particularly of elevation.
- The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
- (astrology) The aspect of two planets that are 45°, or one-eighth of a circle, apart.
noun
- A monocular optical instrument that magnifies distant objects, especially in astronomy.
- (television) A retractable tubular support for lights.
- A kind of goldfish with protruding eyes, first bred in China.
- Any instrument used in astronomy for observing distant objects (such as a radio telescope).
- a magnifier of images of distant objects
verb
- (ambitransitive, mathematics, of a series) To collapse, via cancellation.
- (ambitransitive) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass.
- (ambitransitive) To extend or contract in the manner of a telescope.
- (intransitive) To come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another.
- make smaller or shorter
- crush together or collapse
noun
- A small pointed object.
- The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
- (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
- A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
- The footprint of a hare.
- An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
- (slang, vulgar) The penis.
- A feeling of remorse.
- (slang, derogatory) Someone (especially a male) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
- obscene terms for penis
- the act of puncturing with a small point
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- a depression scratched or carved into a surface
verb
- (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
- (farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
- (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
- (ambitransitive) To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
- To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
- (transitive, chiefly nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
- (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
- (transitive, hunting) To shoot without killing.
- To aim at a point or mark.
- (horticulture) Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
- (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
- (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
- To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
- cause a stinging pain
- stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick
- to stick up
- cause a prickling sensation
- to cause a sharp emotional pain
- make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn
- deliver a sting to
noun
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- electro-acoustic transducer that vibrates to receive or produce sound waves
- a contraceptive device consisting of a flexible dome-shaped cup made of rubber or plastic; it is filled with spermicide and fitted over the uterine cervix
- (anatomy) a muscular partition separating the abdominal and thoracic cavities; functions in respiration
- (chemistry) A permeable or semipermeable membrane.
- A contraceptive device consisting of a flexible cup, used to cover the cervix during intercourse.
- (anatomy) In mammals, a sheet of muscle separating the thorax from the abdomen, contracted and relaxed in respiration to draw air into and expel air from the lungs.
- (optics, photography) A thin opaque structure with a central aperture, used to limit the passage of light into a camera or similar device.
- (mechanics) A flexible membrane separating two chambers and fixed around its periphery that distends into one or other chamber as the difference in the pressure in the chambers varies.
- (anatomy) Any of various membranes or sheets of muscle or ligament which separate one cavity from another.
- (acoustics) In a speaker, the thin, semi-rigid membrane which vibrates to produce sound.
- (construction) A floor slab, metal wall panel, roof panel or the like, having a sufficiently large in-plane shear stiffness and sufficient strength to transmit horizontal forces to resisting systems.
verb
noun
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- the event of something ending
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- the act of stopping something
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- a punctuation mark (‘.’) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- (UK, grammar, informal) Ellipsis of full stop.
verb
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- come to a halt, stop moving
- stop from happening or developing
- cause to end
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- render unsuitable for passage
- interrupt a trip
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- (causative, transitive) To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
punct
noun
- A device resembling a drawing compass and used to transfer measurements of length.
- A physical object for dividing up a space.
- An electronic device for separating a signal, frequency, etc., into two or more parts.
- A piece of card placed in a ring binder to separate groups of documents.
- The median (US) or central reservation (UK) of a highway or other road where traffic in opposite directions are kept separated.
- One who or that which divides or separates.
- a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another)
- a taxonomist who classifies organisms into many groups on the basis of relatively minor characteristics
- a drafting instrument resembling a compass that is used for dividing lines into equal segments or for transferring measurements
- a person who separates something into parts or groups
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- A potentiometer with a linearly sliding control.
- (US, dialect) A red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rubriventris, syn. Pseudemys rugosa).
- Any skink in the genus Lerista, endemic to Australia.
- (cricket) A similar delivery in which the wrist and ring finger work to impart backspin to the ball.
- (skydiving) A rectangle of fabric that helps produce an orderly parachute deployment.
- Synonym of slide (“child's play equipment”).
- A small sandwich, typically served in a warm bun.
- The movable part of a zip fastener that opens or closes the row of teeth.
- (graphical user interface, Internet) A slideshow on a web page.
- An open-toed and backless sandal; a slide.
- (graphical user interface) A widget allowing the user to select a value or position on a sliding scale.
- A sliding door.
- A slider turtle, any turtle in the genus Trachemys, native to the Americas.
- (baseball) A pitch thrown with added pressure by middle and ring fingers yielding a combination of backspin and sidespin, resulting in a motion to the left when thrown by a right handed pitcher.
- (curling) A piece of Teflon or similar material attached to a curling shoe that allows the player to slide along the ice.
- freshwater turtle of United States and South America; frequently raised commercially; some young sold as pets
- a person who slips or slides because of loss of traction
- a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown
- someone who races the luge