STOP
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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STOP. 1. Also (
full)
point,
full stop,
period. The mark (.) at the end of a sentence. See
PERIOD,
POINT,
PUNCTUATION.
2. Also
stop consonant. In phonetics, a
CONSONANT sound made by momentarily blocking the airstream. The two kinds of stop in English speech are the
PLOSIVE (as in the
b-sound of
bad) and the
AFFRICATE (as in the
ch-sound of
choose). See
GLOTTAL STOP.
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Soy Cuba
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Cuba, Relations with
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Cuba, Intelligence and Security
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Cuba, U.S. Military Involvement in.
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History
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