Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A standstill; a halt; a stop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A standstill.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology A period of time during which a
glacier , etc. remainsstationary . - noun obsolete A
standstill .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It seems we are at a relatively stable highstand (stillstand?) in sea level at present...it's about 130 m higher than at Last Glacial Max (LGM).
Questions in The Night Silver Fox 2008
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-- Und hätte man mich machen lassen so hätte erstlich durch diesen stillstand Zeit gewunnen, dass die ganze provinz und ich uns in guter postur setzen können, und wir innert dieser Zeit, mit Volck, Krieg and Lebens-Mittlen versehen.
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/Verspricht er ferners für vier Tag stillstand der Waafen zu procourieren, damit innert dieser Zeit Tüchtige persohnen, Erwehlt und Verornet wurden, heilsame Friedensprojecten zu proponieren, die da wo möglich bey den Streiteten Parteyen müssten angenem und gefällig seyn.
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At the same time, the thousands of feet of marine and freshwater sediments, with their repeated alternations of limestones, sandstones, and shales, in which the seams of coal occur, prove a slow subsidence, with many changes in its rate, with halts when the land was at a stillstand, and with occasional movements upward.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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We must spy a half a hind on honeysuckler now his old face’s hardalone wiv his defences down during his wappin stillstand, says my Fred, and Jamessime here which, pip it, she simply must, she says, our pet, she’ll do a retroussy from her point of view
Finnegans Wake 2006
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V) 18. nominal stillstand voltage between the slip-rings given rated operation (Lf ...
3. Execution of rotating electrical machines Hans-Friedrich Hoyer 1991
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