Cheque
(n.) See Check. |
Long-stop
(n.) One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper. |
Order
(n.) Regular arrangement |
Order
(n.) Of material things, like the books in a library. |
Order
(n.) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. |
Order
(n.) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like. |
Order
(n.) Right arrangement |
Order
(n.) The customary mode of procedure |
Order
(n.) Conformity with law or decorum |
Order
(n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure |
Order
(n.) A command |
Order
(n.) Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods |
Order
(n.) A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position |
Order
(n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation |
Order
(n.) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop |
Order
(n.) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture |
Order
(n.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common |
Order
(n.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression. |
Order
(n.) Rank |
Order
(n.) To put in order |
Order
(n.) To give an order to |
Order
(n.) To give an order for |
Order
(n.) To admit to holy orders |
Order
(v. i.) To give orders |
Stopping
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Stop |
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 |
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. |
mail-order buying
catalog buying | buying goods to be shipped through the mail |
| stopping | the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch, the violinist's stopping was excellent |
| double stopping | stopping two strings and producing two notes at the same time |
| 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 |
tall order
large order | a formidable task or requirement, finishing in time was a tall order but we did it |
| order arms | a position in the manual of arms, the rifle is held vertically on the right side with the butt on the ground, often used as a command |
| close-order drill | (military) military drill of troops in standard marching (shoulder-to-shoulder) |
order
ordering | the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement, there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list |
| rank order | an arrangement according to rank |
| holy order | the sacrament of ordination |
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 |
| telephone order | receiving orders via telephone |
| animal order | the order of animals |
| protoctist order | the order of protoctists |
| bacteria order | an order of bacteria |
Eubacteriales
order Eubacteriales | one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria, Gram-positive spherical or rod-shaped forms, some are motile, in some classifications considered an order of Schizomycetes |
Pseudomonadales
order Pseudomonadales | one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria, Gram-negative spiral or spherical or rod-shaped bacteria usually motile by polar flagella, some contain photosynthetic pigments |
Rickettsiales
order Rickettsiales | pleomorphic Gram-negative microorganisms |
Mycoplasmatales
order Mycoplasmatales | coextensive with the family Mycoplasmataceae |
Actinomycetales
order Actinomycetales | filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria |
order Myxobacteria
Myxobacterales
order Myxobacterales
Myxobacteriales
order Myxobacteriales | an order of higher bacteria |
Spirochaetales
order Spirochaetales | higher bacteria, slender spiral rodlike forms |
Heliozoa
order Heliozoa | mostly freshwater protozoa |
Radiolaria
order Radiolaria | marine protozoa |
Amoebida
order Amoebida
Amoebina
order Amoebina | the animal order including amoebas |
Foraminifera
order Foraminifera | foraminifers |
Testacea
order Testacea | testacean rhizopods |
Heterotrichales
order Heterotrichales | yellow-green algae with simple or branching filaments, comprising the single family Tribonemaceae |
Laminariales
order Laminariales | in some classifications coextensive with family Laminariaceae: marine brown algae of cold or polar seas |
Fucales
order Fucales | coextensive with the family Fucaceae |
Ulvales
order Ulvales | an order of protoctist |
Volvocales
order Volvocales | chiefly freshwater green algae, solitary or colonial |
Zygnematales
order Zygnematales
Zygnemales
order Zygnemales | pond scums, desmids |
Chlorococcales
order Chlorococcales | unicellular green algae that reproduce by spores |
Oedogoniales
order oedogoniales | simple or branched filamentous freshwater green algae |
Charales
order Charales | small order of macroscopic fresh and brackish water algae with a distinct axis: stoneworts |
Dinoflagellata
order Dinoflagellata
Cilioflagellata
order Cilioflagellata | in some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista, in others included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta |
Hypermastigina
order Hypermastigina | cellulose-producing flagellates |
Polymastigina
order Polymastigina | small usually parasitic flagellates |
Coccidia
order Coccidia | an order in the subclass Telosporidia |
Gregarinida
order Gregarinida | an order in the subclass Telosporidia |
Haemosporidia
order Haemosporidia | an order in the subclass Telosporidia |
Sarcosporidia
order Sarcosporidia | imperfectly known parasites of the muscles of vertebrates |
Haplosporidia
order Haplosporidia | an order in the subclass Acnidosporidia |
Actinomyxidia
order Actinomyxidia | parasites of worms |
Mycrosporidia
order Mycrosporidia | an order in the subclass Cnidosporidia |