the act of stopping something | a call to engage in a contest or fight |
a brief stay in the course of a journey | questioning a statement and demanding an explanation |
a restraint that checks the motion of something | a formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror |
an obstruction in a pipe or tube | a demand by a sentry for a password or identification |
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens | a demanding or stimulating situation |
(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes | |
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it | |
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | |
the event of something ending | |
a spot where something halts or pauses | |
the state of inactivity following an interruption | |