Long-stop (n.) One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper. |
Production (n.) The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view |
Production (n.) That which is produced, yielded, or made, whether naturally, or by the application of intelligence and labor |
Production (n.) The act of lengthening out or prolonging. |
Stop (v. t.) To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing |
Stop (v. t.) To obstruct |
Stop (v. t.) To arrest the progress of |
Stop (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving |
Stop (v. t.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part. |
Stop (v. t.) To point, as a composition |
Stop (v. t.) To make fast |
Stop (v. i.) To cease to go on |
Stop (v. i.) To cease from any motion, or course of action. |
Stop (v. i.) To spend a short time |
Stop (n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped |
Stop (n.) That which stops, impedes, or obstructs |
Stop (n.) 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.) 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 |
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 |
Stop (n.) 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 |
Stop (n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses. |
Stop (n.) 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.) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) 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 (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc. |
Stop-gap (n.) That which closes or fills up an opening or gap |
Stop-over (a.) Permitting one to stop over |
dramatic production dramatic performance | the act of performing a drama, the group joined together in a dramatic production |
production | (law) the act of exhibiting in a court of law, the appellate court demanded the production of all documents |
whistle-stop tour | a tour by a candidate as part of a political campaign in which a series of small towns are visited, in Truman crossed the country several times on his whistle-stop tours |
production | the act or process of producing something, Shakespeare's production of poetry was enormous, the production of white blood cells |
production | the creation of value or wealth by producing goods and services |
production | (economics) manufacturing or mining or growing something (usually in large quantities) for sale, he introduced more efficient methods of production |
mass production | the production of large quantities of a standardized article (often using assembly line techniques) |
boring drilling oil production | the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum |
art artistic creation artistic production | the creation of beautiful or significant things, art does not need to be innovative to be good, I was never any good at art, he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully |
stop stopover layover | a brief stay in the course of a journey, they made a stopover to visit their friends |
night-stop | a break in a journey for the night |
pit stop | a brief stop at a pit during an automobile race to take on fuel or service the car |
pit stop | a stop during an automobile trip for rest and refreshment |
stop stoppage | the act of stopping something, the third baseman made some remarkable stops, his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood |
blockage block closure occlusion stop stoppage | an obstruction in a pipe or tube, we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe |
catch stop | a restraint that checks the motion of something, he used a book as a stop to hold the door open |
diapason diapason stop | either of the two main stops on a pipe organ |
diaphragm stop | a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens, the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically |
flue stop | an organ stop with the tone of a flue pipe |
organ stop | a graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality |
product production | an artifact that has been created by someone or some process, they improve their product every year, they export most of their agricultural production |
production line assembly line line | mechanical system in a factory whereby an article is conveyed through sites at which successive operations are performed on it |
pull-off rest area rest stop layby lay-by | designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily |
reed stop | an organ stop with the tone of a reed instrument |
stop | (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 bath short-stop short-stop bath | an acid bath used to stop the action of a developer |
stopwatch stop watch | a timepiece that can be started or stopped for exact timing (as of a race) |
truck stop | a roadside service station (and restaurant) that caters to truck drivers |
whistle stop flag stop way station | a small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal |
production order | an order that initiates the manufacturing process |
stop order stop-loss order | an order to a broker to sell (buy) when the price of a security falls (rises) to a designated level |
stop payment | a depositor's order to a bank to refuse payment on a check |
stop press | late news that is inserted into the newspaper at the last minute |
period point full stop stop full point | 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 |
production | a presentation for the stage or screen or radio or television, have you seen the new production of Hamlet? |
theatrical production staging | the production of a drama on the stage |
stop consonant stop occlusive plosive consonant plosive speech sound plosive | a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it, his stop consonants are too aspirated |
labial stop | a stop consonant that is produced with the lips |
glottal stop glottal plosive glottal catch | a stop consonant articulated by releasing pressure at the glottis, as in the sudden onset of a vowel |
suction stop click | a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu) |
speaking speech production | the utterance of intelligible speech |
production | a display that is exaggerated or unduly complicated, she tends to make a big production out of nothing |
stop halt | the event of something ending, it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill |
bus stop | a place on a bus route where buses stop to discharge and take on passengers |
stop | a spot where something halts or pauses, his next stop is Atlanta |
production cost | combined costs of raw material and labor incurred in producing goods |
pair production pair creation pair formation | the transformation of a gammaay photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus |
steel production | making steel from pig iron |
output yield production | the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time), production was up in the second quarter |
focal ratio f number stop number speed | the ratio of the focal length to the diameter of a (camera) lens system |