Gave vs Stop - What's the difference?
gave | stop |
(give)
* c. 1471 , An English Chronicle, 1377-1461 :
* 1591 , (William Shakespeare), King Henry VI, part 1 :
* 1815 , (Jane Austen), Emma :
* 2011 , Bob Woffinden, (The Guardian) , 31 Jul 2011:
(label) To cease moving.
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, title= (label) To come to an end.
(label) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
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, title= (label) To cause (something) to come to an end.
(label) To close or block an opening.
To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
(label) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
* R. D. Blackmore
* 1931 , ,
(label) To tarry.
(label) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
(label) To punctuate.
* Landor
(label) To make fast; to stopper.
A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
* De Foe
* Sir Isaac Newton
* John Locke
A device intended to block the path of a moving object; as, a door stop.
(label) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis; a plosive.
A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
* Daniel
* Rogers
A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
(label) A button that activates the stop function.
(label) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
(label) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
(label) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
(label) An f-stop.
(label) 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.
(label) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
Prone to halting or hesitation.
As verbs the difference between gave and stop
is that gave is simple past of give while stop is to cease moving.As a noun stop is
a (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.As an adverb stop is
prone to halting or hesitation.As an interjection stop is
halt! stop.gave
English
Verb
(head)- there the erl of Dunbar becam his manne, and the kyng yaf him the Counte of Richemunde.
- I gaue thee Life, and rescu'd thee from Death.
- The superior degree of confidence towards Harriet, which this one article marked, gave her severe pain.
- With the Oxford canal at the bottom of his garden, regular canoeing excursions gave him enormous pleasure.
See also
* givenStatistics
*Anagrams
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at stuff, stump. Alternate etymology derives Proto-Germanic *stupp?n? from an assumed . This derivation, however, is doubtful, as the earliest instances of the Germanic verb do not carry the meaning of "stuff, stop with tow". Rather, these senses developed later in response to influence from similar sounding words in Latin and RomanceThe Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, "stop"..Verb
(stopp)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
Mapp & Lucia, chapter 7