Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A period indicating the end of a sentence.
- n. A complete halt, as one made by a motor vehicle.
Wiktionary
- n. UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa The punctuation mark “.” (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
- interj. colloquial Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
Examples
“In his capacity as evaluator pilot, Lieutenant Colonel Faught was instructing a pilot proficiency exercise and after having supervised four uneventful touch-and-go landings, was making the final approach for a full stop landing.”
Strategic Air Command: People Aircraft and Missiles 2nd Edition
“Kohokumu fetched a full stop and held my eyes with his own shrewd ones.”
“The ride was shorter than she expected, and she jumped off before the bus came to a full stop on Gizri Lane, just across from the market where she used to meander through the mishmash of stalls with Saira and Maleeha after school.”
“As the procession came to a full stop outside George’s room, Uncle William’s door opened, and a pink and military figure in a dragon-infested dressing-gown appeared upon the threshold.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘full stop’.
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full phrases/words
how full is used
all the full, as full as a tick, at full, at (the) full, be full of it, to, be full of shit (..., crown fulls, ful iwis, fuliwis, fuliwis, to, full-accomplished, full-acorned and 237 more...
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LIT - Ulysses - key words and phrases
money cowrie, bedraggle, omphalos, ineluctable, postprandial, bladderwrack, modality barnacle..., loofah, shipworm, cither, embattle, Malachi and 503 more...
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Can't Stop Won't Stop
half stop, full stop, double stop, triple stop, bus stop, stop sign, stop light, stop order, stop squark, stop in the name ..., can't stop won't ..., don't stop 'til y... and 54 more...
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Marks
names of punctuation marks, accent marks, and other graphic signs and graphical characters used in printed, written, or digital text.
comma, period, parenthesis, apostrophe, colon, semicolon, slash, stroke, brackets, dash, em dash, en dash and 72 more...
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die6die's Words
somnambulist, obfuscate, hirsute, kleptobibliomania, serendipitous, dissuade, duplicitous, zounds, lo, unleash, fortnight, thaumaturgy and 278 more...
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geekery
allophone, affix, colon, -esque, apostrophe, semi-colon, textually, whorfian, adjectival, full stop, anthropomorphism, hyperbole and 10 more...
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john A period or other sentence-ending punctuation mark. Jan 22, 2008