Palabra Inglés del Día

stop

parar

Definiciones

inglés > español
stop
1. Parar.
2. Detener.
3. Evitar.
4. s. Parada.
5. s. Alto.
inglés > inglés
stop
1. v. (intransitive) To cease moving.
I stopped at the traffic lights.
2. v. (intransitive) To not continue.
The riots stopped when police moved in.
Soon the rain will stop.
3. v. To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.
This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him.
4. v. To cause (something) to come to an end.
The referees stopped the fight.
5. v. To close or block an opening.
He stopped the wound with gauze.
6. v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.
7. v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
to stop with a friend
He stopped for two weeks at the inn.
8. v. (intransitive) To tarry.
He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.
9. v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
10. v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
11. v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
12. s. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
They agreed to see each other at the bus stop.
13. s. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
That stop was not planned.
14. s. A device intended to block the path of a moving object
door stop -
15. s. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis; a plosive.
16. s. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
17. s. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
Pull out all the stops.
18. s. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.
19. s. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
20. s. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.
21. s. (photography) An f-stop.
22. s. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
23. s. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
24. s. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
25. adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
He’s stop still.
26. adv. ====Punctuation====
27. adv. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
28. s. (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
29. adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
español > inglés
parar
1. v. to stop, halt
2. v. to put up, stand up
3. v. to lift, raise
4. v. to stand up
5. v. to situate oneself
6. v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, Chile) see pararlas