STOP

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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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