To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
To select parts of a whole
To determine (a root of a number).
To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
Something that is extracted or drawn out.
Ancestry; descent.
A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
To cause (something) to come to an end.
To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
To cease moving.
To end someone else's activity.
To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
To make fast; to stopper.
To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
To close or block an opening.
Not to continue.
Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
An f-stop.
A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
A device intended to block the path of a moving object
The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
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.
A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.