hit pause
halting
check
put the kibosh on
stopping
ho
bode
stay
desist
detain
delay
pick up the threads of
rest
break
break away
hiatus
continued
continuation
continuance
autopause
cease and desist
forbear
surcease
seize up
pause
unceasingly
leave off
nonstop
lin
resting
suspend
kill
hold
pausal
stoppage
hesitate
freeze up
dead
stop
halt
pierce
freeze
put the brakes on
snooze
demur
haltable
ceaser
cut
put down
intermit
stop over
resume
abruptio
stound
quietus
cut off
knock off
preemption
prevent
logjam
give up
come to a stop
stoplessness
belay
kick out
lay off
rein up
away
withdraw
brick wall
interruptory
kibosh
lull
interpausal
stump
letup
haltingly
interruptant
arrest
continue
call it a day
drop
continuous
exit
pull up short
hitch
continued
pausal
dead
haltable
nonstop
interruptory
interpausal
continuous
unceasingly
nonstop
away
haltingly
halting
stopping
ho
bode
hiatus
continuation
continuance
autopause
surcease
pause
resting
stoppage
demur
ceaser
abruptio
quietus
preemption
logjam
stoplessness
lull
letup
interruptant
check
stay
stop
halt
arrest
hitch
hit pause
check
put the kibosh on
stay
desist
detain
delay
pick up the threads of
rest
break
break away
cease and desist
forbear
seize up
leave off
lin
suspend
kill
hold
pause
hesitate
freeze up
stop
halt
pierce
freeze
put the brakes on
snooze
cut
put down
intermit
stop over
resume
stound
cut off
knock off
prevent
give up
come to a stop
belay
kick out
lay off
rein up
withdraw
brick wall
kibosh
stump
continue
call it a day
drop
exit
pull up short
verb
- To make a stop; to pause; with at.
- To control, limit, or halt.
- To inspect; to examine.
- To leave with a shipping agent for shipping.
- To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit).
- To turn, when in pursuit of proper game, and fly after other birds.
- To pass or bounce the ball to an opponent from behind the three-point line and have the opponent pass or bounce it back to start play.
- To make a move which puts an adversary's king in check; to put in check.
- To crack or gape open, as wood in drying; or to crack in small checks, as varnish, paint, etc.
- To disrupt another player with the stick or body to obtain possession of the ball or puck.
- To chide, rebuke, or reprove.
- To announce that one is remaining in a hand without betting.
- To verify or compare with a source of information.
- To leave in safekeeping.
- To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).
- To slack or ease off, as a brace which is too stiffly extended.
- To make checks or chinks in; to cause to crack.
- To act as a curb or restraint.
- To mark with a check pattern.
noun
- The forsaking by a hawk of its proper game to follow other birds.
- A maneuver performed by a player to take another player out of the play.
- Any fabric woven with such a pattern.
- A situation in which the king is directly threatened by an opposing piece.
- A mark (especially a checkmark: ✓) used as an indicator.
- A bill, particularly in a restaurant.
- A control; a limit or stop.
- An inspection or examination.
- A small chink or crack.
- A lengthwise separation through the growth rings in wood.
- An order to a bank to pay money to a named person or entity.
- A mark, certificate, or token by which errors may be prevented, or a thing or person may be identified.
- A pattern made up of a grid of squares of alternating colors; a checkered pattern.
- A token used instead of cash in gaming machines, or in gambling generally.
adj
verb
- stop or halt
- stay the same; remain in a certain state
- stay put (in a certain place)
- dwell
- continue in a place, position, or situation
- remain behind
- stay behind
- hang on during a trial of endurance
- stop a judicial process
- fasten with stays
- overcome or allay
noun
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- continuing or remaining in a place or state
- a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted
- a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset)
- (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar
verb
- To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion.
- To come to a pause or an end; end.
- To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed.
- To rely or depend on.
- To be or to put into a state of rest.
- To lean, lie, or lay.
- To complete one's active advocacy in a trial or other proceeding, and thus to wait for the outcome (however, one is still generally available to answer questions, etc.)
- To continue to be, remain, be left in a certain way.
- To sleep; slumber.
- To be satisfied; to acquiesce.
- To sleep the final sleep; sleep in death; die; be dead.
- To lie dormant.
- To stay, remain, be situated.
noun
- A state of inactivity; a state of little or no motion; a state of completion.
- A projection from the right side of the cuirass of armour, serving to support the lance.
- Absence of motion.
- Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.
- A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
- Any object designed to be used to support something else.
- Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account. Often, specifically, the intervals after which compound interest is added to capital.
- A written symbol indicating such a pause in a musical score such as in sheet music.
- A final position after death.
- A short pause in reading poetry; a caesura.
- A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn, or permanently, as, in an abode.
- A pause of a specified length in a piece of music.
- That which remains.
- Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
- Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
verb
- interrupt a continued activity
- cease an action temporarily
- terminate or end
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- render inoperable or ineffective
- ruin completely
- destroy the integrity of; usually by force; cause to separate into pieces or fragments
- act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
- move away or escape suddenly
- scatter or part
- force out or release suddenly and often violently something pent up
- prevent completion
- enter someone's (virtual or real) property in an unauthorized manner, usually with the intent to steal or commit a violent act
- make submissive, obedient, or useful
- fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns
- surpass in excellence
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- come into being
- stop operating or functioning
- make a rupture in the ranks of the enemy or one's own by quitting or fleeing
- curl over and fall apart in surf or foam, of waves
- lessen in force or effect
- be broken in
- come to an end
- vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- cause to give up a habit
- give up
- come forth or begin from a state of latency
- happen or take place
- cause the failure or ruin of
- invalidate by judicial action
- discontinue an association or relation; go different ways
- assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
- reduce to bankruptcy
- change directions suddenly
- emerge from the surface of a body of water
- break down, literally or metaphorically
- do a break dance
- exchange for smaller units of money
- destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- make the opening shot that scatters the balls
- separate from a clinch, in boxing
- go to pieces
- break a piece from a whole
- become punctured or penetrated
- pierce or penetrate
- be released or become known; of news
- interrupt the flow of current in
- undergo breaking
- find a flaw in
- find the solution or key to
- change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another
- happen
- become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
- crack; of the male voice in puberty
- fall sharply
- fracture a bone of
- diminish or discontinue abruptly
- weaken or destroy in spirit or body
noun
- some abrupt occurrence that interrupts an ongoing activity
- an unexpected piece of good luck
- (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other
- a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)
- a pause from doing something (as work)
- the act of breaking something
- a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- breaking of hard tissue such as bone
- the occurrence of breaking
- an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion)
- the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- (tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving
- an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
- a sudden dash
- any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare
- an escape from jail
noun
noun
- A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
- take pause: hesitate; give pause: cause to hesitate
- A break or paragraph in writing.
- Hesitation; suspense; doubt.
- A short time for relaxing and doing something else.
- In writing and printing, a mark indicating the place and nature of an arrest of voice in reading; a punctuation mark.
- A sign indicating continuance of a note or rest.
verb
verb
- To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
- To bring a solid substance, usually in powder form, into suspension in a liquid.
- To remove the value of an unused coupon from an air ticket, typically so as to allow continuation of the next sectors' travel.
- To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
- To hang freely; underhang.
- To support in a liquid, as an insoluble powder, by stirring, to facilitate chemical action.
- To halt something temporarily.
- To debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of income, etc.
verb
- To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
- To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
- To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to; to hurt.
- To punish severely.
- To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
- To produce intense pain.
- To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
- To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
- To exert oneself to an excessive degree.
- To exert an overwhelming effect on.
- To force a company out of business.
- To deadmelt.
- To render inoperative.
- To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
- To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
- To use up or to waste.
- To cause to assume the value zero.
- To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
- To sexually penetrate in a skillful way.
- To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
noun
verb
- Not to move; to halt; to stop.
- To detain.
- To take place, to occur.
- In a food or drink order at an informal restaurant etc., requesting that a component normally included in that order be omitted.
- To have and keep possession of something.
- To be or remain valid; to apply (usually in the third person).
- To contain or store.
- To be in possession of illicit drugs for sale.
- To organise an event or meeting (usually in passive voice).
- To accept, as an opinion; to be the adherent of, openly or privately; to persist in, as a purpose; to maintain; to sustain.
- To win one's own service game.
- To cause to wait or delay.
- To maintain in being or action; to carry on; to prosecute, as a course of conduct or an argument; to continue; to sustain.
- To bind (someone) to a consequence of his or her actions.
- To maintain, to consider, to opine.
- To grasp or grip.
- To reserve.
- To bear, carry, or manage.
- To keep oneself in a particular state.
- To remain continent; to control an excretory bodily function.
- Not to give way; not to part or become separated; to remain unbroken or unsubdued.
- To impose restraint upon; to limit in motion or action; to bind legally or morally; to confine; to restrain.
noun
- The property of maintaining the shape of styled hair.
- The part of an object one is intended to grasp, or anything one can use for grasping with hands or feet.
- Power over someone or something.
- A place where animals are held for safety
- An act or instance of holding.
- Keep a firm hold on the handlebars.
- A position or grip used to control the opponent.
- The wager amount, the total hold.
- A fruit machine feature allowing one or more of the reels to remain fixed while the others spin.
- The cargo area of a ship or aircraft (often holds or cargo hold).
- The ability to persist.
- An exercise involving holding a position for a set time
- An order that something is to be reserved or delayed, limiting or preventing how it can be dealt with.
- Something reserved or kept.
- A grasp or grip.
- The percentage the house wins on a gamble, the house or bookmaker's hold.
- As of Monday night the total Melbourne Cup hold was $848,015
- The House Hold on the game is 10,000, this is the amount of decision or risk the house wishes to assume.
- The queueing system on telephones and similar communication systems which maintains a connection when all lines are busy.
- A statistic awarded to a relief pitcher who is not still pitching at the end of the game and who records at least one out and maintains a lead for his team.
- An instance of holding one's service game, as opposed to being broken.
- A region of airspace reserved for aircraft being kept in a holding pattern.
adj
- the complete stoppage of an action
- very tired
- unerringly accurate
- physically inactive
- (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
- devoid of physical sensation; numb
- lacking acoustic resonance
- not yielding a return
- not circulating or flowing
- not surviving in active use
- lacking resilience or bounce
- out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
- no longer having force or relevance
- drained of electric charge; discharged
- devoid of activity
noun
- people who are no longer living
- a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
adv
- completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
- quickly and without warning; happening unexpectedly; on impulse; without premeditation
adj
verb
- come to a halt, stop moving
- put an end to a state or an activity
- stop from happening or developing
- interrupt a trip
- cause to end
- prevent completion
- hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- seize on its way
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- render unsuitable for passage
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
noun
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- the event of something ending
- the act of stopping something
- a brief stay in the course of a journey
- a spot where something halts or pauses
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- a restraint that checks the motion of something
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube
verb
- (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).
- To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.
- To prevent from showing any visible change.
- Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.
- To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets
- Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.
- To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.
- To cause someone to become motionless.
- To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.
- To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.
- To be affected by extreme cold.
- (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.
noun
- A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.
- A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.
- A period of intensely cold weather.
- A halt of a regular operation.
- The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.
noun
verb
verb
- To stop, disengage, or cease.
- To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- To exhibit (a quality).
- To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- To wound with a knife.
- To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
- To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- To make or negotiate.
- To castrate or geld.
- To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To change direction suddenly.
- To perform (a dancing movement etc.).
- To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
noun
- A particular version or edit of a film.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- A skein of yarn.
- A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
- The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- The result of cutting.
- In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
- The act of cutting.
- An artificial navigation channel as distinguished from a navigable river.
- Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- A slab, especially of meat.
- A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- A haircut.
- A decrease.
intj
adj
- Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- Reduced.
- Having been cut.
- Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- Carved into a shape; not raw.
- Emotionally hurt.
verb
- To halt, eliminate, stop, or squelch, often by force.
- To drop someone off, or let them out of a vehicle.
- To euthanize (an animal).
- To make prices, or taxes, lower.
- To pay.
- To terminate a call; to hang up.
- To give something as a reason for something else.
- To add a name to a list.
- To insult, belittle, or demean.
- To land.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put, down.
- To execute (a person), especially extrajudicially.
- To write (something).
- To place a baby somewhere to sleep.
- To cease, temporarily or permanently, reading (a book).
verb
noun
- A receptacle for holding small beer.
- A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
- A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging
- A stand; a stop.
- A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
- A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
- Astonishment; amazement.
verb
- To halt one's work or other activity.
- To rob.
- To defeat.
- To have sex with.
- To remove, as a discount or estimate.
- To make a copy of, as of a design.
- To assign (an item) to a bidder at an auction, indicated by knocking on the counter.
- To remove by hitting (something, someone)
- To kill.
- To accomplish hastily.
noun
- The temporary interruption of a task without its cooperation and with the intention of resuming it at a later time.
- The purchase of something before it is offered for sale to others.
- The displacement of a lower jurisdiction's laws when they conflict with those of a higher jurisdiction.
- The purchase of public land by the occupant.
verb
- To stop or quit (an activity, etc.)
- To admit defeat, capitulate
- Become fully taken over by a certain quality, activity, trait, &c.
- To abandon (someone or something)
- To relinquish (something)
- To execute a trade on behalf of another broker.
- To surrender (someone or something)
- To lose hope concerning (someone or something)
verb
- To cease, quit, stop (doing something).
- In painting, to apply gentle strokes to smooth a wet coat of paint so as to remove visible roller- or brush-marks, commonly using a dry brush; a similar technique, but using a loaded laying-off brush, may produce a smooth coat of paint when using a roller or the usual brush techniques would leave marks.
- To place all or part of a bet with another bookmaker in order to reduce risk.
- To plan out (a navigational course) using a chart.
- (of an employer) To dismiss (workers) from employment, e.g. at a time of low business volume or through no fault of the worker, often with a severance package.
- To stop bothering, teasing, or pestering someone; to leave (someone) alone.
adv
- On; in continuance; without intermission or delay.
- From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
- From a place, hence.
- Without restraint.
- In or to a secure or out-of-the-way place.
- Aside, so as to discard something.
- Aside; off; in another direction.
- In or to something's usual or proper storage place.
- So as to remove or use up something.
- Come away; go away; take away.
- At a stated distance in time or space.
intj
adj
- At a specified distance in space, time, or figuratively.
- Being the player whose ball lies farthest from the hole (or, in disc golf, whose disc lies farthest from the target).
- Not on one's home territory.
- Not here, gone, absent, unavailable, traveling; on vacation.
- Out.
verb
verb
- To stop (a course of action, proceedings, etc.)
- To take away or take back (something previously given or permitted); to remove, to retract.
- To take back (a comment, something written, etc.); to recant, to retract.
- To remove (someone or (reflexive, archaic) oneself) from a position or situation; specifically (military), to remove (soldiers) from a battle or position where they are stationed.
- To distract or divert (someone) from a course of action, a goal, etc.
- To cause or help (someone) to stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to dry out.
- To take (one's eyes) off something; to look away.
- To draw or pull (something) away or back from its original position or situation.
- To stop talking to or interacting with other people and start thinking thoughts not related to what is happening.
- To remove (a topic) from discussion or inquiry.
- Of soldiers: to leave a battle or position where they are stationed; to retreat.
- To extract (money) from a bank account or other financial deposit.
- Of a man: to remove the penis from a partner's body orifice before ejaculation; to engage in coitus interruptus.
- To disregard (something) as belonging to a certain group.
- To stop taking an addictive drug or substance; to undergo withdrawal.
- Chiefly followed by from: to leave a place, someone's presence, etc., to go to another room or place.
- Chiefly followed by from: to stop taking part in some activity; also, to remove oneself from the company of others, from publicity, etc.
verb
- To stop, confuse, or puzzle.
- To get a batsman out stumped.
- To bowl down the stumps of (a wicket).
- To walk heavily or clumsily, plod, trudge.
- To reduce to a stump; to truncate or cut off a part of.
- To strike unexpectedly; to stub, as the toe against something fixed.
- To travel over (a state, a district, etc.) giving speeches for electioneering purposes.
- To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem.
- To campaign.
noun
- One of three small wooden posts which together with the bails make the wicket and that the fielding team attempt to hit with the ball.
- The remains of something that has been cut off; especially the remains of a tree, the remains of a limb.
- A leg.
- An artists’ drawing tool made of rolled paper used to smudge or blend marks made with charcoal, Conté crayon, pencil or other drawing media.
- A wooden or concrete pole used to support a house.
- The place or occasion at which a campaign takes place; the husting.
- A place or occasion at which a person harangues or otherwise addresses a group in a manner suggesting political oration.
- A pin in a tumbler lock which forms an obstruction to throwing the bolt except when the gates of the tumblers are properly arranged, as by the key.
- A pin or projection in a lock to form a guide for a movable piece.
verb
- continue after an interruption
- continue a certain state, condition, or activity
- continue talking
- keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last
- move ahead; travel onward in time or space
- allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature
- do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop
- continue in a place, position, or situation
- span an interval of distance, space or time
- exist over a prolonged period of time
verb
- To come to an end (by not being kept up); to lapse, to stop.
- To dispose or get rid of (something); to lose, to remove.
- To let (something) fall; to allow (something) to fall (either by releasing hold of, or losing one's grip on).
- To reduce; to make smaller.
- To fall behind or to the rear of a group of people, etc., as a result of not keeping up with those at the front.
- To make (someone or something) fall to the ground from a blow, gunshot, etc.; to bring down, to shoot down.
- To pass or use (counterfeit cheques, money, etc.).
- To quickly lower or take down (one's trousers), especially in public.
- Of the testicles: to hang further away from the body and begin producing sperm due to puberty.
- To cook (food, especially fast food), particularly by lowering into hot oil to deep-fry, or by grilling.
- Of an animal (usually a sheep): to give birth to (young); of a bird: to lay (an egg).
- To impart (something).
- To cease concerning oneself over (someone or something); to have nothing more to do with (a discussion, subject, etc.).
- To perform (rap music).
- Usually followed by by, in, or into: of a person: to visit someone or somewhere informally or without a prior appointment.
- Of a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.: to enter public distribution.
- To play (a portion of music) in the manner of a disc jockey.
- Of a liquid: to fall in drops or droplets.
- To drop out of the betting.
- To collapse in exhaustion or injury; also, to fall dead, or to fall in death.
- To fall or sink quickly or suddenly to the ground.
- Of a voice: to lower in timbre, often due to puberty.
- To fall (straight down) under the influence of gravity, like a drop of liquid.
- Of a song or sound: to lower in key, pitch, tempo, or other quality.
- To move to a lower position; to allow to hang downwards; to lower.
- To let (a letter, etc.) fall into a postbox; hence, to send (a letter, email, or other message) in an offhand manner.
- To drip (a liquid) in drops or small amounts.
- To set down (someone or something) from a vehicle; to stop and deliver or deposit (someone or something); to drop off.
- To cease to include (something), as if on a list; to dismiss, to eject, to expel.
- To (unexpectedly) lose (a competition, game, etc.).
- To fail to write, or (especially) to pronounce (a syllable, letter, etc.).
- To lower (a sound, a voice, etc.) in pitch or volume.
- To fall into a particular condition or state.
- To tune (a guitar string, etc.) to a lower note.
- To present the user with a more basic interface.
- To release (a programme, software, a music album or song, etc.) to the public.
- To lose, spend, or otherwise part with (money).
- To score (a goal) by means of a drop kick.
- To mention (something) casually or incidentally, usually in conversation.
- To enter a more basic interface.
- To decrease, diminish, or lessen in condition, degree, value, etc.
- Especially in drop acid: to swallow (a drug, particularly LSD).
- Of a fielder: to fail to dismiss (a batsman) by accidentally dropping a batted ball that had initially been caught.
- To cancel or cease to participate in (a scheduled course, event, or project).
noun
- A dropped pass.
- The distance that a person drops when being executed by hanging.
- The vertical length of a hanging curtain.
- A small quantity of liquid, just large enough to hold its own round shape through surface tension, especially one that falls from a source of liquid.
- Only used in get the drop on, have the drop on An advantage.
- The distance below a cliff or other high position through which someone or something could fall; hence, a steep slope.
- A very small quantity of liquid, or (by extension) of anything.
- The amount of money that a gambler exchanges for chips in a casino.
- Usually preceded by the: alcoholic spirits in general.
- A trapdoor (“hinged platform”) on a gallows; a gallows itself.
- A point in a song, usually electronic music such as dubstep, house, trace, or trap, where there is a very noticeable and pleasing change in bass, tempo, and/or overall tone; a climax, a highlight.
- An ornament resembling a pendant; a gutta.
- The cover mounted on a swivel over a keyhole that rests over the keyhole when not in use to keep out debris, but is swiveled out of the way before inserting the key.
- A fruit which has fallen off a tree, etc., or has been knocked off accidentally, rather than picked.
- Of women's clothes: the difference between the bust circumference and hip circumference.
- A mechanism for lowering something, such as a machine for lowering heavy weights on to a ship's deck, or a device for temporarily lowering a gas jet, etc.
- A place where items or supplies may be left for others to collect, whether openly (as with a mail drop), or secretly or illegally (as in crime or espionage); a drop-off point.
- The distance of the axis of a shaft below the base of a hanger.
- An instance of making a delivery of people, supplies, or things, especially by parachute out of an aircraft (an airdrop), but also by truck, etc.
- A dose of liquid medicine in the form of a drop (sense 1).
- A decline in degree, quality, quantity, or rate.
- A single measure of whisky.
- A curtain which falls in front of a theatrical stage; also, a section of (cloth) scenery lowered on to the stage like a curtain.
- An item made available for the player to pick up from the remains of a defeated enemy.
- A release (of music, a video game, etc).
- Often preceded by a defining word: a small, round piece of hard candy, such as a lemon drop; a lozenge.
- Of men's clothes: the difference between the chest circumference and waist circumference.
- Usually preceded by the: relegation from one division to a lower one.
- A liquid medicine that is intended to be administered in drops (sense 1).
- A small amount of an alcoholic beverage.
- An act of moving downwards under the force of gravity; a descent, a fall.
- The depth of a (square) sail (generally applied to the courses only); the vertical dimension of a sail.
- Preceded by the: execution by hanging.
adj
- Without stopping; without a break, cessation, or interruption.
- Expressing an ongoing action or state.
- Not deviating or varying from uniformity; not interrupted; not joined or articulated.
- Such that, for every x in the domain, for each small open interval D about f(x), there's an interval containing x whose image is in D.
- Without intervening space; continued.
- Such that each open set in the target space has an open preimage (in the domain space, with respect to the given function).
verb
- To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.)
- To depart from life; to die.
- To depart from or leave (a place or situation).
- To leave a scene or depart from a stage.
- Used as a stage direction for an actor: to leave the scene or stage.
- To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave.
- To give up the lead.
- To alight or disembark from a vehicle.
noun
- A minor road (such as a ramp or slip road) which is used to leave a major road (such as an expressway, highway, or motorway).
- An act of going out or going away, or leaving; a departure.
- An opening or passage through which one can go from inside a place (such as a building, a room, or a vehicle) to the outside; an egress.
- The act of departing from life; death.
- The action of an actor leaving a scene or the stage.
verb
noun
- the state of inactivity following an interruption
- a period of time spent in military service
- an unforeseen obstacle
- a connection between a vehicle and the load that it pulls
- a knot that can be undone by pulling against the strain that holds it; a temporary knot
- any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
- the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
verb
English words for 'To pause (an activity); stop, terminate.'
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