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| Domain | Definition |
Mechanical Engineering | An immovable stop serving to limit a stroke to a definite length. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cessation | Dead stop, dead stand, dead lock; finis, cerrado; blowout, burnout, meltdown, disintegration; comma, colon, semicolon, period, full stop; end; death. |
Quiescence | Pause, lull; (cessation); stand still; standing still; Verb: lock; dead lock, dead stop, dead stand; full stop; fix; embargo. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: DEAD STOP |
| Specialty definitions using "DEAD STOP": countercurrent braking. (references) |
Expression using "DEAD STOP": come to a dead stop. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "DEAD STOP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | fast stop (definite stop, positive stop, stationary stop), fast anslag (definite stop, positive stop, stationary stop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vaste aanslag (definite stop, positive stop, stationary stop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | kiinteä vaste (definite stop, positive stop, stationary stop), kiinteä rajoitin (definite stop, positive stop, stationary stop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | butée fixe (definite stop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | fester Anschlag (definite stop, positive stop, stationary stop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σταθερό άκρο (definite stop, positive stop, stationary stop), στοπ (definite stop, dog, positive stop, stationary stop, stop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hirtelen megállás (check, hitch). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | arresto fisso (definite stop, positive stop, stationary stop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eadday opstay batente fixo (definite stop, positive stop, stationary stop). (various references) tope fijo (definite stop, positive stop, stationary stop). (various references) tvärstopp, fast anslag (definite stop, positive stop, stationary stop). (various references) tam olarak durma, aniden durma. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: adopted, podesta. | |
-2 letters: adepts, adopts, dadoes, depots, despot, doated, oddest, pasted, posted, sapote, soaped, spaded, stoped. | |
-3 letters: adept, adopt, apods, dados, dated, dates, datos, deads, depot, doats, doest, dopas, doped, dopes, dosed, doted, dotes, estop, opted, paseo, paste, pated, pates, peats, pesto, poets, posed, psoae, sated, septa, spade, spado, spaed, spate, spode, stade. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-o-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: postdated. | |
+3 letters: depredators, paddleboats. | |
+4 letters: depredations, disappointed, postdeadline. | |
+5 letters: decompensated, dodecaphonist, endopeptidase, superaddition. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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