Stop vs Platform - What's the difference?
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(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.
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(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.
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(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.
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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.
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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.
A raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.
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, title= A place or an opportunity to express one's opinion, a tribune.
A kind of high shoe with an extra layer between the inner and outer soles.
(figurative)
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(computing) A particular type of operating system or environment such as a database or other specific software, and/or a particular type of computer or microprocessor, used to describe a particular environment for running other software, or for defining a specific software or hardware environment for discussion purposes.
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, title= (politics) A political stance on a broad set of issues, which are called planks.
(travel) A raised structure from which passengers can enter or leave a train, metro etc.
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(obsolete) A plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern.
(nautical) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine.
A flat expanse of rock often as a result of wave erosion.
To furnish with or shape into a
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To place on a platform.
(obsolete) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.
(politics) To include in a political platform
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As nouns the difference between stop and platform
is that stop is while platform is a raised stage from which speeches are made and on which musical and other performances are made.As a verb platform is
to furnish with or shape into a.stop
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
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Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing)'' or the ''to infinitive. See for more information.Synonyms
* (to cease moving) brake, desist, halt * (to come to an end) blin, cease, desist, discontinue, halt, terminate * (to cause to cease moving) cancel, cease, discontinue, halt, terminate * (to cause to come to an end) blin, cancel, cease, discontinue, halt, terminateAntonyms
* (to cease moving) continue, go, move, proceed * (to come to an end) continue, proceed * (to cause to cease moving) continue, move * (to cause to come to an end) continue, moveDerived terms
* stop-and-search / stop-and-frisk * stop by * stopcock * stop down * stop in * stop off * stop out * stop over * stop up * stopwatch * the buck stops hereNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (place for vehicles to load and unload passengers) halt, station * (consonant sound where air is blocked) plosive, occlusiveDerived terms
* bus stop * truck stopReferences
Adverb
(-)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . See stoup.Statistics
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English
Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
citation, passage=Hodgson may actually feel England could have scored even more but this was the perfect first step on the road to Rio in 2014 and the ideal platform for the second qualifier against Ukraine at Wembley on Tuesday.}}
End of the peer show, passage=Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms . Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.}}
citation, passage=A “moving platform'” scheme
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* dais * podiumDerived terms
* platform balance * platform bed * platform car * platformer * platform game * platforming * platform rocker * platform scale * platform ticketVerb
(en verb)citation
- Church discipline is platformed in the Bible. — Milton.
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