Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. Attributive form of full stop, noun.
Examples
“After calling a full-stop on new offshore drilling after the spill, U.S. regulators have approved new drilling plans for many other companies, including Chevron, but not for BP.”
“I had an overwhelming fear that a visible longing for home and family would turn into a career hurdle, or even bring it to a premature full-stop.”
“The sidewalk and a phalanx of humble stucco apartment buildings yielded full-stop to low-desert cactus, rough sand and well-camouflaged, hardscrabble fauna.”
“I think doing a start-up is hard full-stop, no matter where you do it.”
“It's the last part of the sentence, the part between the comma and the full-stop; Gordon Brown is not smooth, Tony Blair was smooth, Gordon Brown is anything but smooth.”
“A novelist or dramatist chooses when the final full-stop comes; a TV screenwriter is at the mercy of ratings, advertisers and actor availability.”
The Guardian: Television re-runs: only 235 episodes to go | Mark Lawson
“Not to cast aspersions but do you definitely have exactly the same address with only a full-stop (period) differentiating the two?”
Google Doesn’t Require You To Login With Dots | Lifehacker Australia
“But this path you have chosen as a burgeoning fashion designer must come to a full-stop; if not a permanent stop, at least a pause.”
The Huffington Post: Malcolm Harris: Open Letter to Musician Kanye West: Kanye, Please Stop!
“Not only a break, but a full-stop, do nothing, laze around, eat/sleep/read sort of day.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Susan Corso: Pajama Days: Holiness For The Rest Of The Year
“I'd be extremely tempted to give them a pay - rise and completely abolish the expense regime full-stop.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘full-stop’.
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Former ghosts
Ghost words that I've adopted because the original listers abandoned them. Yarb has more in his Adoption agency, and many orphlings are tagged as ghosted, ghost phrases, misspellings, or typos.
orphling, listkeeper, grandmotherly, scroogish, theocon, frownie, afternoons, loggin, supercalliwhat, avunculate, kokako, stygimolochs and 379 more...
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The Glyphs & How to Name Them
Being a list of the proper names of glyphs, both exotic and common, found in the typographer's toolbox.
ogonek, macron, horn, hook, dot, diaeresis, umlaut, circumflex, cedilla, inverted breve, breve, double grave, grave and 60 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for full-stop.
reesetee Hey-that's-an-idea. May 3, 2008
dontcry SJF: Have-you-tried-aversion-therapy? May 2, 2008
sonnyjoefoxx This isn't very comforting. Sounds like a lose-lose situation. May 2, 2008
gangerh Some spent their whole lives spaced-out as well. You know: '1925 - 1990'. May 2, 2008
gangerh Those are the ones who spent their whole life hyphenated. The cemeteries are full of them. You know: 'Here Lies John Doe 1925-1990' etc. May 2, 2008
sonnyjoefoxx "Socially." Yeah, I remember saying that. I used to say, "I can take it or leave it." Ha! What about the ones who can't take it but can't leave it either?
*sigh*
Sorry, I'm a little high-strung. I appreciate the self-censorship. I'll look into this therapy. I think I read about it a few years ago. May 2, 2008
dontcry SonnyJoeFoxx Try weaning yourself off the junk with some colon or semi-colon (sorry about the h****n there, I just use them socially) therapy. Take it slow, man. Good luck.
*makes a fist, thumps her heart twice with her fist, then shows you her fist in the air* May 2, 2008
sonnyjoefoxx Hi. Thanks for the welcome. Your subtlety is right up my alley. Unfortunately, it's not helping my much-needed cure. May 2, 2008
gangerh Hi. Welcome. So, you get hyphenated regularly, do you, Sonny-Joe-Foxx? Apr 28, 2008
sonnyjoefoxx I'm addicted to hyphens. Apr 28, 2008