the act of preventing | the act of stopping something |
a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon | a brief stay in the course of a journey |
an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal | a restraint that checks the motion of something |
a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter | an obstruction in a pipe or tube |
a counter where you can obtain food or drink | a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens |
a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax) | (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes |
(law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried | a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it |
a heating element in an electric fire | a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations |
a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises | the event of something ending |
a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background | a spot where something halts or pauses |
musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats | the state of inactivity following an interruption |
the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction | |
a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore | |
(meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter | |