Long-stop (n.) One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper. |
Re-sign (v. t.) To affix one's signature to, a second time |
Re sign (n.) Resignation. |
Sign (n.) That by which anything is made known or represented |
Sign (n.) A remarkable event, considered by the ancients as indicating the will of some deity |
Sign (n.) An event considered by the Jews as indicating the divine will, or as manifesting an interposition of the divine power for some special end |
Sign (n.) Something serving to indicate the existence, or preserve the memory, of a thing |
Sign (n.) Any symbol or emblem which prefigures, typifles, or represents, an idea |
Sign (n.) A word or a character regarded as the outward manifestation of thought |
Sign (n.) A motion, an action, or a gesture by which a thought is expressed, or a command or a wish made known. |
Sign (n.) Hence, one of the gestures of pantomime, or of a language of a signs such as those used by the North American Indians, or those used by the deaf and dumb. |
Sign (n.) A military emblem carried on a banner or a standard. |
Sign (n.) A lettered board, or other conspicuous notice, placed upon or before a building, room, shop, or office to advertise the business there transacted, or the name of the person or firm carrying it on |
Sign (n.) The twelfth part of the ecliptic or zodiac. |
Sign (n.) A character indicating the relation of quantities, or an operation performed upon them |
Sign (n.) An objective evidence of disease |
Sign (n.) Any character, as a flat, sharp, dot, etc. |
Sign (n.) That which, being external, stands for, or signifies, something internal or spiritual |
Sign (n.) To represent by a sign |
Sign (n.) To make a sign upon |
Sign (n.) To affix a signature to |
Sign (n.) To assign or convey formally |
Sign (n.) To mark |
Sign (v. i.) To be a sign or omen. |
Sign (v. i.) To make a sign or signal |
Sign (v. i.) To write one's name, esp. as a token of assent, responsibility, or obligation. |
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 |
Babinski Babinski reflex Babinski sign | extension upward of the toes when the sole of the foot is stroked firmly on the outer side from the heel to the front, normal in infants under the age of two years but a sign of brain or spinal cord injury in older persons |
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 |
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 |
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 |
signboard sign | structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted, the highway was lined with signboards |
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 |
sign manual | the signature of a sovereign on an official document |
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 |
sign mark | a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened), he showed signs of strain, they welcomed the signs of spring |
stop press | late news that is inserted into the newspaper at the last minute |
signal signaling sign | any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message, signals from the boat suddenly stopped |
sign | a public display of a message, he posted signs in all the shop windows |
street sign | a sign visible from the street |
high sign | a silent signal of warning or recognition, she started to speak but he gave her the high sign |
pound pound sign | a symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain) |
sign | a character indicating a relation between quantities, don't forget the minus sign |
equal sign | a sign indicating that the quantities on either side are equal |
plus sign | a sign indicating the operation of addition |
minus sign | a sign indicating the operation of subtraction |
radical sign | a sign indicating the extraction of a root |
dollar mark dollar sign | a mark ($) written before a number to indicate that it stands for the number of dollars |
dollar dollar mark dollar sign | a symbol of commercialism or greed, he worships the almighty dollar, the dollar sign means little to him |
percent sign percentage sign | a sign (`%') used to indicate that the number preceding it should be understood as a proportion multiplied by |
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 |
sign language signing | language expressed by visible hand gestures |
ASL American sign language | the sign language used in the United States |
sign | a gesture that is part of a sign language |
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) |
V sign | a sign (for victory), making a V with the index and middle fingers |
sign of the cross | a gesture with the right hand moving to form a cross, used by Catholics as a profession of faith |
sign | a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified, The bond between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary--de Saussure |