Full Stop

Definition: Full Stop

Full Stop

Noun

1. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Full Stop

Cessation

Dead stop, dead stand, dead lock; finis, cerrado; blowout, burnout, meltdown, disintegration; comma, colon, semicolon, period, full stop; end; death.

Come to a stand, come to a standstill; come to a deadlock, come to a full stop; arrive; go out, die away; wear away, wear off; pass away; (be past); be at an end; disintegrate, self-destruct.

Quiescence

Pause, lull; (cessation); stand still; standing still; Verb: lock; dead lock, dead stop, dead stand; full stop; fix; embargo.

Crosswords: Full Stop

Books

• Full Stop (reference)

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Here and there she came to a full stop, and peeped curiously into a pool, left by the retiring tide as a mirror for Pearl to see her face in.

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Human Rights

Argentina

In March in the case of Claudia Poblete, a child taken from a couple who had disappeared, Federal Judge Gabriel Cavallo declared the full stop and due obedience immunity laws unconstitutional. (references)

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Expression using "full stop": come to a full stop. Additional references.

Albanian

pikë (apoplexy, article, bead, blob, clause, count, Dot, drop, globule, installation, leak, match point, period, pip, pitch, point, score, spot, touch). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقطة (dab, dot, fleck, item, locus, mark, period, point, pt, speck, speckle, spot, topic), ‏علامة الوقف. (various references)

Bulgarian 

точка (article, entry, fleck, item, period, pip, point, stop). (various references)

Czech

teèka (Dot, period, point, spot, stop, whit). (various references)

Danish

punktum. (various references)

Dutch

punt (dot, element, fragment, item, particle, peak, period, point, spot, summit, tip). (various references)

Finnish

piste (dot, mark, period, point, spot). (various references)

French

signe pour arrêter, point, arrêt complet. (various references)

German

punkt (Dot, item, Mark, period, pinpoint, point, pt, punctilio, spot). (various references)

Greek 

τελεία (stop). (various references)

Hebrew 

סוף פסוק (period). (various references)

Hungarian

pont (bang, chalk, coign of vantage, Dot, item, jot, just, period, pip, place, plumb, point, right, speckle, spot, stalling point). (various references)

Irish

bponc (point; full stop). (various references)

Italian

punto (Dot, period, pip, pitch, point, quick, score, scratch, spot, stitch, stop, suspicion). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

終止符 (end, period), 休止符 (period, rest), 句点 (period). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅうしふ (end, period), きゅうしふ (period, rest), くて�" (Japanese character set row and column index, period). (various references)

Manx

slane lhiettal (period). (various references)

Pig Latin

ullfay opstay

Portuguese

ponto (character, dot, jot, mark, matter, period, pinpoint, pip, prompter, punt, speck, speckle, spot, stitch, stop, token). (various references)

Romanian

punct (article, degree, Dot, extent, item, locality, Mark, node, period, point, speck, spot, station). (various references)

Russian 

точка (period, point, point of congelation, whet). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tačka (act, center, centre, clause, count, dot, fix, item, number, period, pip, point). (various references)

Spanish

punto (degree, dot, fleck, issue, period, pip, plank, point, polka dot, speck, speckle, spot, stop, the point). (various references)

Swedish

punkt (dot, item, period, point). (various references)

Turkish

son (afterbirth, bedrock, close, conclusion, conclusive, curtains, definitive, denouement, end, ending, expiration, expiry, extremity, farewell, fate, final, finis, finish, finishing, full, issue, kiss off, last, late, latest, latter, nth, Omega, outcome, quietus, recent, result, ruination, secundine, sunset, supreme, tail end, terminal, termination, ultimate, upshot), nokta (Dot, fleck, full point, macula, particular, period, pinpoint, point, post, speck, speckle, spot, stop, tittle), durma (cessation, go ahead, halt, pause, pose, standstill, stay, stop, stoppage, tie up), durak (caesura, full point, rest, stand, station, stop, stopping place). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: potfuls, topfull.

-2 letters: flouts, potful, poults, topful.

-3 letters: flops, flout, fouls, fulls, lofts, lotus, loups, louts, plots, polls, poufs, poult, pouts, pulls, spout, stoup, stull, sulfo, tofus, tolls, tolus.

-4 letters: flop, flus, fops, foul, full, loft, lops, lost, lots, loup, lout, lust, opts, opus, oust, outs, plot, plus, poll, pols, post, pots, pouf, pout.

+2 letters: sportfully.

+4 letters: slumpflation.

+5 letters: slumpflations, tablespoonful.