NOUN
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a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
in England they call a period a stop
How To Use full stop In A Sentence
- Will Tie Rack come to a full stop?
- There have been nine partial and full stop-work orders issued on the project since construction began in 2007, and there is currently a partial stopwork order on the building. Hotel Construction Draws Fire
- Perhaps it's time for the show to head off to the cave of forgotten panel shows alongside the likes of Never Mind The Full Stops (a disastrous attempt to combine subediting and hilarity), It's Only TV But I Like It (no one liked it) and Call My Bluff (missing presumed deceased) where Russell Howard's "funny accents" can compete with the 1970s Question of Sport giggling of Emlyn Hughes? Has Mock the Week lost its spark?
- The full stop at the end of this sentence is a dot.
- But atheism - flatly stating ‘There is no God,’ full stop, no room for a shadow or a shade of a doubt, makes a claim for absolute knowledge - gnosis.
- With slide film, use your camera's exposure-compensation feature to underexpose by a half or a full stop for more saturated color bands.
- Full stops/Periods, commas, semicolons, question marks and brackets are all different types of punctuation mark.
- Page 23 has a title, a subtitle (which ends in a full stop, perhaps qualifying it as a sentence), and a dateline before anything which would qualify as body text.
- Both have consistently focused on a variety of music forms, from purely electronic to experimental jazz to experimental full stop.
- This autumn has seen a spate of high-profile full stops, marked by greatest-hits collections and line-up changes.