Stop
Part of speech: adverb
Definition: Prone to halting or hesitation.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cease moving. To come to an end. To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing. To cause (something) to come to an end. To close or block an opening. To adjust the aperture of a camera lens. To stay a while. To tarry.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A (usually marked) place where line buses or trams halt to let passengers get on and off. An action of stopping; interruption of travel. A device intended to block the path of a moving object; as, a door stop. A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon. Short for a stopper, used in the phrase 'pull out all the stops'. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player. A button that activates the stop function. A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ. A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible. The depression in a dog's face between the skull and the nasal bones. An f-stop.
Example sentence: Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Diaphragm
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To reduce lens aperture using an optical diaphragm.To act as a diaphragm, for example by vibrating.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: In mammals, a sheet of muscle separating the thorax from the abdomen, contracted and relaxed in respiration to draw air into and expel air from the lungs; also called thoracic diaphragm.Any of various membranes or sheets of muscle or ligament which separate one cavity from another.A contraceptive device consisting of a flexible cup, used to cover the cervix during intercourse.A flexible membrane separating two chambers and fixed around its periphery that distends into one or other chamber depending on the as the difference in the pressure in the chambers varies.In a speaker, the thin, semi-rigid membrane which vibrates to produce sound.A thin opaque structure with a central aperture, used to limit the passage of light into a camera or similar device.A permeable or semipermeable membraneA floor slab, metal wall panel, roof panel or the like, havig a sufficiently large in-plane shear stiffness and sufficient strength to transmit horizontal forces to resisting systems.