Full stop

/ˌfʊl ˈstɒp/

Synonyms for "full stop" (51 found)

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Closest matches (11)

Noun(1 words)

Strong matches (15)

deadlockdying downebbebbingendendgameendingfinal whistlegrinding haltgunhaltlock
Noun(3 words)
full pointhaltlengthen the period

Related words (25)

Related word relations

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More general

3 entries
punctuationpunctuation markstop

More specific

3 entries
brief haltsentence terminatortemporary stop

Collocations

6 entries
British full stopcapitalization after full stopfull stop markerfull stop punctuationsentence terminatoruse a full stop

Inflections

1 entries
full stops

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

[S]pielberg was keen to stress that The Fabelmans is not a full stop: “It is not because I decided to retire, and this is my swan song, don’t believe that.”

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The train moved slowly, very slowly, but at least it was moving, and the customers were grateful even for indecisive motion going their way. Just outside the Nassau border, in Queens, the train came to a full stop.

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What’s more, Mr Samek did not even wake up after the car had come to a full stop: officers were forced to wake hm up by knocking on the window, according to a police report that indicated the autopilot feature was likely on “considering the vehicle’s ability to slow to a stop when Samek was asleep.”

Source: wiktionary

For example, the NHTSA forced Tesla to prevent the system from executing illegal “rolling stops” (moving slowly through a stop sign without ever coming to a full stop, while an “unexpected braking” problem is the subject of a current inquiry.

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