abozar delante

Phonetic: "/stɒp/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.

Example: They agreed to meet at the bus stop.

Definition: An action of stopping; interruption of travel.

Example: That stop was not planned.

Definition: That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.

Definition: A device intended to block the path of a moving object

Example: door stop

Definition: A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.

Definition: A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.

Definition: A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.

Example: The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.

Definition: One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.

Definition: A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.

Definition: The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.

Example: The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.

Definition: A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.

Definition: A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.

Definition: An f-stop.

Definition: The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.

Definition: A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.

Phonetic: "/stɒp/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To cease moving.

Example: I stopped at the traffic lights.

Definition: To not continue.

Example: Soon the rain will stop.

Definition: To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.

Example: The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.

Definition: To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).

Example: One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.

Definition: To cause (something) to come to an end.

Example: The referees stopped the fight.

Definition: To close or block an opening.

Example: He stopped the wound with gauze.

Definition: (often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.

Example: To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.

Definition: To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.

Example: He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.

Definition: To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.

Definition: To punctuate.

Definition: To make fast; to stopper.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: (usually in phrases such as 'from the off', 'at the off', etc.) Beginning; starting point.

Example: He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To kill.

Example: He got in the way so I had him offed.

Definition: To switch off.

Example: Can you off the light?

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Inoperative, disabled.

Example: All the lights are off.

Definition: Cancelled; not happening.

Example: The party's off because the hostess is sick.

Definition: Not fitted; not being worn.

Example: The drink spilled out of the bottle because the top was off.

Definition: Rancid, rotten, gone bad.

Example: This milk is off!

Definition: Less than normal, in temperament or in result.

Example: sales are off this quarter

Definition: Inappropriate; untoward.

Example: I felt that his comments were a bit off.

Definition: (in phrases such as 'well off', 'better off', 'poorly off') Circumstanced.

Definition: Started on the way.

Example: And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose.

Definition: Far; off to the side.

Example: He took me down the corridor and into an off room.

Definition: Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.

Example: He took an off day for fishing.  an off year in politics; the off season

Definition: (in phrases such as 'off day') Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities.

Definition: (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.

Example: — I'll have the chicken please.

Definition: (in relation to a vehicle) On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left).

Example: The off front wheel came loose.

Definition: In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: In a direction away from the speaker or object.

Example: He drove off in a cloud of smoke.

Definition: Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.

Example: Please switch off the light when you leave.

Definition: So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated.

Example: He bit off the end of the carrot.

Definition: Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase.

Phonetic: "/ɔːf/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Not positioned upon; away from a position upon.

Example: He's off the roof now.

Definition: Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to.

Example: He was thrown off the team for cheating.

Definition: Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via.

Example: His office is off this corridor on the right.

Definition: Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland.

Example: The island is 23 miles off the cape.

Definition: Removed or subtracted from.

Example: There's 20% off the list price.

Definition: No longer wanting or taking.

Example: He's been off his feed since Tuesday.

Definition: (more properly 'from') Out of the possession of.

Example: He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him.

Definition: Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering.

Example: I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off.