Stop vs Sit - 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.
* 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.
(of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and the legs (especially the upper legs) are supported by some object.
(of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
(of an object) To occupy a given position permanently.
To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
* Bible, Numbers xxxii. 6
* Shakespeare
(government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
(legal, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
* Jeremy Taylor
To be adjusted; to fit.
* Shakespeare
(of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
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To accommodate in seats; to seat.
shortened form of babysit.
(US) To babysit
(transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
* Bible, Jer. xvii. 11
To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
* Selden
* Sir Walter Scott
(rare, Buddhism) an event (usually one full day or more) where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.
Stop is a related term of sit.
As nouns the difference between stop and sit
is that stop is while sit is shit.As an interjection sit is
shit, dammit.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
Mapp & Lucia, chapter 7
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
*Anagrams
* * * * * 100 English basic words English ergative verbs English phrasebook 1000 English basic words ----sit
English
Verb
- After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.
- I asked him to sit .
- The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries.
- And Moses said to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
- Like a demigod here sit I in the sky.
- I currently sit on a standards committee.
- In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session.
- The calamity sits heavy on us.
- Your new coat sits well.
- This new and gorgeous garment, majesty, / Sits not so easy on me as you think.
- How will this new contract sit with the workers?
- I don’t think it will sit well.
- The violence in these video games sits awkwardly with their stated aim of educating children.
- Sit him in front of the TV and he might watch for hours.
- The dining room table sits eight comfortably.
- I sat me weary on a pillar's base, / And leaned against the shaft
- I'm going to sit for them on Thursday.
- I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours.
- The partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.
- I'm sitting for a painter this evening.
- like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits
- Sits the wind in that quarter?
Conjugation
* An obsolete form of the simple past is (m) and of the past participle is (m).Entryabout past simple sate in Webster's dictionary