Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In electroplating, deposition on the exposed portions of a surface the remainder of which is protected by a non-conducting coat of varnish or wax.
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Examples
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Slightly Foxed on Gloucester Road 123 Gloucester Road, London SW7 4TE, 020-7370 3503This secondhand bookshop, previously owned by Graham Greene's nephew, has been a stopping-off point near Gloucester Road tube station for decades.
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That bird was a stopping-off place for Benedict di Caela, for Gabriel Androctus, for the Scorpion, for what have you.
Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010
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Many years ago, he says that people thought that Colombia would become neither a producing nor a consuming country, and that it would always remain just a stopping-off point for traffickers.
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In our opinion, Beach Rose RV Park is a stopping-off point, not a destination.
WirelessTrips.com Campground Review: Beach Rose RV Park – Salisbury, Massachusetts 2007
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The heart of the Planescape campaign setting and normally the first stopping-off point for visitors is Sigil, the City of Doors, also called the Cage.
The Worlds of D&D: Planescape Adam Whitehead 2009
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The heart of the Planescape campaign setting and normally the first stopping-off point for visitors is Sigil, the City of Doors, also called the Cage.
Archive 2009-11-01 Adam Whitehead 2009
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Northern Africa straddles the migratory bird flyways between Europe and SSA and is an important stopping-off point for an estimated billion migratory raptors, passerines and Palaearctic waterbirds.
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In the essay "Lives of the Bohemians," from his book The Disappointment Artist, the novelist Jonathan Lethem recalls the Brooklyn, New York home of his youth: "Our home was soon a stopping-off point for former colleagues and students of my father's who'd arrived in New York and needed a place to stay, as well as for old friends from Greenwich Village."
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That doesn't mean conscience doesn't need to be applied to the eco-system, but to the extent it does, it needs to be leveraged via intellectual and moral integrity and balance, not via exciteable egos together with their presumptive preachments, emoted at stopping-off points as they travel the planet in private and transnationally funded jets.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007
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The DMZ is a critical stopping-off point during the annual migration of these birds from breeding grounds in northeastern China and southeastern Russia.
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