Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
stop . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
stop .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
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Examples
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The long VOT of these voiced stops would tend then to be reinterpreted in loanwords into Mid IE as _creaky stops_ which also have longer VOT what you are calling "ejective" according to Glottalic Theory.
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She stops as if she had been tremendously shocked, and a moment later the rattling of a latch-key in the inner door also stops_ JOHN _from going any further.
The Easiest Way Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911 Eugene Walter 1907
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Right after the rain stops is a good time to be in the woods as they usually start feeding then.
I sat all morning Monday. saw nothing but a small doe. I sat in the poring rain for nothing. 2009
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You were a means to an end; an additional stream of exposure to keep my name ringing, because when your name stops ringing, that means the game is over.
Barry Michael Cooper: Murder, Ink. (A Satire About Hip Hop And Gossip Blogs) Barry Michael Cooper 2011
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You were a means to an end; an additional stream of exposure to keep my name ringing, because when your name stops ringing, that means the game is over.
Barry Michael Cooper: Murder, Ink. (A Satire About Hip Hop And Gossip Blogs) Barry Michael Cooper 2011
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Right after the rain stops is a good time to be in the woods as they usually start feeding then.
I sat all morning Monday. saw nothing but a small doe. I sat in the poring rain for nothing. 2009
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A Homeland Security official who did not give his name stops traffic for pedestrians during a power outage Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, in San Diego.
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A Homeland Security official who did not give his name stops traffic for pedestrians during a power outage Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, in San Diego.
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A Homeland Security official who did not give his name stops traffic for pedestrians during a power outage Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011, in San Diego.
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We expect that one of the issues that will come up in all of our stops is an opportunity to exchange views about what we are witnessing in terms of developments inside North Korea, he said.
oroboros commented on the word stops
Spots in reverse.
July 22, 2007