Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 165
Stop (v. t.) (Naut.) To make fast; to stopper.
Syn: To obstruct; hinder; impede; repress; suppress; restrain; discontinue; delay; interrupt.
To stop off (Founding), To fill (a part of a mold) with sand, where a part of the cavity left by the pattern is not wanted for the casting.
To stop the mouth. See under Mouth.
Stop (v. i.) To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.
He bites his lip, and starts; Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground; Then lays his finger on his temple: strait Springs out into fast gait; then stops again. -- Shak.
Stop (v. i.) To cease from any motion, or course of action.
Stop, while ye may, suspend your mad career! -- Cowper.
Stop (v. i.) To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend. [Colloq.]
By stopping at home till the money was gone. -- R. D. Blackmore.
To stop over, To stop at a station or airport beyond the time of the departure of the train or airplane on which one came, with the purpose of continuing one's journey on a subsequent train or airplane; to break one's journey. See stopover, n.
Stop (n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.
It is doubtful . . . whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection. -- De Foe.
Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy. -- Sir I Newton.
It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them. -- Locke.
Stop (n.) That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.
A fatal stop traversed their headlong course. -- Daniel.
So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent. -- Rogers.
Stop (n.) (Mach.) 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.
Stop (n.) (Mus.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.
The organ sound a time survives the stop. -- Daniel.
Stop (n.) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.
Stop (n.) (Arch.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.
Stop (n.) A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.
Stop (n.) (Opt.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
Stop (n.) (Zool.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.
Stop (n.) (Phonetics) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed.
Stop (n.) So as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or.
Stop (n.) So as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed. -- H. Sweet.
Stop bead (Arch.) The molding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide.
Stop motion (Mach.) An automatic device for arresting the motion of a machine, as when a certain operation is completed, or when an imperfection occurs in its performance or product, or in the material which is supplied to it, etc.
Stop plank, One of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in some hydraulic works.
Stop valve, A valve that can be closed or opened at will, as by hand, for preventing or regulating flow, as of a liquid in a pipe; -- in distinction from a valve which is operated by the action of the fluid it restrains.
Stop watch, A watch the hands of which can be stopped in to tell exactly the time that has passed, as in timing a race. See Independent seconds watch, under Independent, a.
Syn: Cessation; check; obstruction; obstacle; hindrance; impediment; interruption.
Stop (n.) The event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill" [syn: stop, halt].
Stop (n.) The act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood" [syn: stop, stoppage].
Stop (n.) A brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends" [syn: stop, stopover, layover].
Stop (n.) 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" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage].
Stop (n.) A spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta."
Stop (n.) A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated" [syn: stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive] [ant: continuant, continuant consonant].
Stop (n.) 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" [syn: period, point, full stop, stop, full point].
Stop (n.) (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."
Stop (n.) A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically" [syn: diaphragm, stop].
Stop (n.) A restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open" [syn: catch, stop].
Stop (n.) An obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" [syn: blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage].
Stop (v.) Come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" [syn: stop, halt] [ant: get going, go, start].
Stop (v.) Put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" [syn: discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off] [ant: bear on, carry on, continue, preserve, uphold].
Stop (v.) Stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process" [syn: stop, halt, block, kibosh].
Stop (v.) Interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence" [syn: stop, stop over].
Stop (v.) Cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief" [ant: start, start up].
Stop (v.) Prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" [syn: break, break off, discontinue, stop].
Stop (v.) Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism" [syn: check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back].
Stop (v.) Seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace" [syn: intercept, stop].
Stop (v.) Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" [syn: end, stop, finish, terminate, cease] [ant: begin, start].
Stop (v.) Render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar].
Stop (v.) Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!" [syn: hold on, stop].
Stopcock (n.) A bib, faucet, or short pipe, fitted with a turning stopper or plug for permitting or restraining the flow of a liquid or gas; a cock or valve for checking or regulating the flow of water, gas, etc., through or from a pipe, etc.
Stopcock (n.) The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet.
Stope (v. i.) A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
Stoped (imp. & p. p.) of Stope.
Stoping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stope.
Stope (v. t.) To excavate in the form of stopes.
Stope (v. t.) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
Stope (p. p.) Alt. of Stopen.
Stopen (p. p.) Stepped; gone; advanced.
Stop-gap (n.) That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.
Stoping (n.) The act of excavating in the form of stopes.
Stopless (a.) Not to be stopped.
Stop-over (a.) Permitting one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket. See To stop over, under Stop, v. i.
Stoppage (n.) The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
Stopped (a.) Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.).
Stopper (n.) One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.
Stopper (n.) A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something.
Stopper (n.) A name to several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies; as, the red stopper. See Eugenia.
Stoppered (imp. & p. p.) of Stopper.
Stoppering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stopper.
Stopper (v. t.) To close or secure with a stopper.
Stopping (n.) Material for filling a cavity.
Stopping (n.) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
Stopping (n.) A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
Stopping-out (n.) A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts.
Stopple (v. t.) That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.
Stoppled (imp. & p. p.) of Stopple.
Stoppling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stopple.
Stopple (v. t.) To close the mouth of anything with a stopple, or as with a stopple.
Stopship (n.) A remora. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.
Stor (a.) See Stoor.
Storage (n.) The act of depositing in a store or warehouse for safe keeping; also, the safe keeping of goods in a warehouse.
Storage (n.) Space for the safe keeping of goods.
Storage (n.) The price changed for keeping goods in a store.
Storax (n.) Any one of a number of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most common of these is liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant.
Store (v. t.) That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.
Store (v. t.) A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.
Store (v. t.) Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.
Store (v. t.) Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.
Store (a.) Accumulated; hoarded.
Stored (imp. & p. p.) of Store.
Storing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Store.
Store (v. t.) To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.
Store (v. t.) To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.
Store (v. t.) To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.
Stored (a.) Collected or accumulated as a reserve supply; as, stored electricity.
Storefront (n.) [North American] 臨街店面，臨街店舖 Another term for shopfront.
‘Groups of 100 to 1,000 would congregate outside a Chinese laundry and launch a hail of rocks and stones to smash windows, storefronts, and doors.’
Storefront (n.) A room or set of rooms facing the street on the ground floor of a commercial building, typically used as a shop.
[As modifier ]‘A bright storefront eatery.’
Storehouse (n.) [C] 倉庫，貨棧；寶庫 A building for keeping goods of any kind, especially provisions; a magazine; a repository; a warehouse.
Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto Egyptians. -- Gen. xli. 56.
The Scripture of God is a storehouse abounding with estimable treasures of wisdom and knowledge. -- Hooker.
Storehouse (n.) A mass or quality laid up. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Storehouse (n.) A depository for goods; "storehouses were built close to the docks" [syn: storehouse, depot, entrepot, storage, store].
Storekeeper (n.) A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper.
Storekeeper (n.) One who keeps a "store;" a shopkeeper. See 1st Store, 3.
Storer (n.) One who lays up or forms a store.
Storeroom (n.) Room in a storehouse or repository; a room in which articles are stored.
Storeship (n.) A vessel used to carry naval stores for a fleet, garrison, or the like.
Storey (n.) See Story.
Storge (n.) Parental affection; the instinctive affection which animals have for their young.
Storial (a.) Historical.
Storied (a.) Told in a story.
Storied (a.) Having a history; interesting from the stories which pertain to it; venerable from the associations of the past.
Storied (a.) Having (such or so many) stories; -- chiefly in composition; as, a two-storied house.
Storier (n.) A relater of stories; an historian.
Storify (v. t.) To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story.
Stork (n.) Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconidae, having long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera. The European white stork (Ciconia alba) is the best known. It commonly makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or a pillar. The black stork (C. nigra) is native of Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Stork-billed (a.) Having a bill like that of the stork.
Storm (n.) [C] 暴風雨；（政治，社會等方面的）風暴，大動盪；（感情的）爆發，激動 [（+of）]；（暴風雨般的）發作 [（+of）]； 【軍】強擊，猛攻 A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or hail, whether accompanied with wind or not.
We hear this fearful tempest sing, Yet seek no shelter to avoid the storm. -- Shak.
Storm (n.) A violent agitation of human society; a civil, political, or domestic commotion; sedition, insurrection, or war; violent outbreak; clamor; tumult.
I will stir up in England some black storm. -- Shak.
Her sister Began to scold and raise up such a storm. -- Shak.
Storm (n.) A heavy shower or fall, any adverse outburst of tumultuous force; violence.
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. -- Pope.
Storm (n.) (Mil.) A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt of troops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls, forcing the gates, or the like.
Note: Storm is often used in the formation of self-explained compounds; as, storm-presaging, stormproof, storm-tossed, and the like.
Anticyclonic storm (Meteor.), A storm characterized by a central area of high atmospheric pressure, and having a system of winds blowing spirally outward in a direction contrary to that cyclonic storms. It is attended by low temperature, dry air, infrequent precipitation, and often by clear sky. Called also high-area storm, anticyclone. When attended by high winds, snow, and freezing temperatures such storms have various local names, as blizzard, wet norther, purga, buran, etc.
Cyclonic storm. (Meteor.) A cyclone, or low-area storm. See Cyclone, above.
Magnetic storm. See under Magnetic.
Storm-and-stress period [a translation of G. sturm und drang periode], A designation given to the literary agitation and revolutionary development in Germany under the lead of Goethe and Schiller in the latter part of the 18th century.
Storm center (Meteorol.), The center of the area covered by a storm, especially by a storm of large extent.
Storm door (Arch.), An extra outside door to prevent the entrance of wind, cold, rain, etc.; -- usually removed in summer.
Storm path (Meteorol.), The course over which a storm, or storm center, travels.
Storm petrel. (Zool.) See Stormy petrel, under Petrel.
Storm sail (Naut.), Any one of a number of strong, heavy sails that are bent and set in stormy weather.
Storm scud. See the Note under Cloud.
Syn: Tempest; violence; agitation; calamity.
Usage: Storm, Tempest. Storm is violent agitation, a commotion of the elements by wind, etc., but not necessarily implying the fall of anything from the clouds. Hence, to call a mere fall or rain without wind a storm is a departure from the true sense of the word. A tempest is a sudden and violent storm, such as those common on the coast of Italy, where the term originated, and is usually attended by a heavy rain, with lightning and thunder.
Storms beat, and rolls the main; O! beat those storms, and roll the seas, in vain. -- Pope.
What at first was called a gust, the same Hath now a storm's, anon a tempest's name. -- Donne.
Stormed (imp. & p. p.) of Storm.
Storming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Storm.
Storm (v. t.) (Mil.) 猛攻；襲取；狠狠抨擊 To assault; to attack, and attempt to take, by scaling walls, forcing gates, breaches, or the like; as, to storm a fortified town.
Storm (v. i.) 起風暴；下暴雨；橫衝直撞，猛衝 [Q]；暴怒；怒罵 [（+at）]；強擊，猛攻 To raise a tempest. -- Spenser.
Storm (v. i.) To blow with violence; also, to rain, hail, snow, or the like, usually in a violent manner, or with high wind; -- used impersonally; as, it storms.
Storm (v. i.) To rage; to be in a violent passion; to fume.
The master storms, the lady scolds. -- Swift.
Storm (n.) A violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning [syn: storm, violent storm].
Storm (n.) A violent commotion or disturbance; "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was only a tempest in a teapot" [syn: storm, tempest].
Storm (n.) A direct and violent assault on a stronghold.
Storm (v.) Behave violently, as if in state of a great anger [syn: ramp, rage, storm].
Storm (v.) Take by force; "Storm the fort" [syn: storm, force].
Storm (v.) Rain, hail, or snow hard and be very windy, often with thunder or lightning; "If it storms, we'll need shelter".
Storm (v.) Blow hard; "It was storming all night".
Storm (v.) Attack by storm; attack suddenly [syn: storm, surprise].
Storm (n.) (Violent weather) (A2) [ C ] An extreme weather condition with very strong wind, heavy rain, and often thunder and lightning.
// A lot of trees were blown down in the recent storms.
// They're still cleaning up the storm damage.
Storm (n.) (Emotional reaction) [ C usually singular ] A very angry reaction from a lot of people.
// There was a storm of protest when the new tax was announced.
Storm (n.) (Attack) Take sb/ sth by storm To be suddenly extremely successful in a place or with a group of people.
// Her performance has taken the critics by storm.
Idiom(s)
Cook up, dance up, talk up, etc. a storm (Informal) To do something with a lot of energy and often skill.
// Rob was in the kitchen cooking up a storm.
Idiom(s) Storm in a teacup
Storm in a teacup (UK) (US tempest in a teapot) A lot of unnecessary anger and worry about a matter that is not important.
Storm (v.) (Attack) [ T ] To attack a place or building by entering suddenly in great numbers.
// The fortress was stormed by hundreds of soldiers.
Storm (v.) (Emotional reaction) [ I or T ] (Literary) To express anger in a loud and often uncontrolled way.
// [ + speech ] "Get out and never come back!" he stormed.
Storm in/ into/ out To enter or leave a place in a way that shows that you are angry.
// He stormed out of the house, slamming the door as he went.
-storm (suffix) Used to form words for particular types of violent weather.
A rainstorm
A sandstorm
A snowstorm
A thunderstorm
A windstorm
Storm-beat (a.) Beaten, injured, or impaired by storms.
Stormcock (n.) The missel thrush.
Stormcock (n.) The fieldfare.
Stormcock (n.) The green woodpecker.
Stormfinch (n.) The storm petrel.
Stormful (a.) Abounding with storms.
Stormglass (n.) A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
Stormily (adv.) In a stormy manner.
Storminess (n.) The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.
Storming () a. & n. from Storm, v.
Stormless (a.) Without storms.
Stormwind (n.) A heavy wind; a wind that brings a storm; the blast of a storm.
Stormy (a.) 暴風雨的；多風暴的；暴躁的，狂暴的；激烈的，猛烈的 Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week. "Beyond the stormy Hebrides." -- Milton.