the act of stopping something | a journey for some purpose (usually including the return) |
a brief stay in the course of a journey | an unintentional but embarrassing blunder |
a restraint that checks the motion of something | a light or nimble tread |
an obstruction in a pipe or tube | a catch mechanism that acts as a switch |
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens | an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall |
(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes | an exciting or stimulating experience |
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it | a hallucinatory experience induced by drugs |
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 | |