A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.
Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.
A preparation made by placing material on a slide (flat, rectangular piece of glass), covering it and applying pressure.
An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.
Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.
Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.
Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.
The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.
Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.
A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.
Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.
A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.
To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
To suppress; to force into submission.
To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.
A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
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 (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.
Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
To cause (something) to come to an end.
To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
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.