Definitions for full stop
full stop

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. period, point, full stop, stop, full pointnoun

   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"

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1. full stopnoun

   The punctuation mark (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).

2. full stopinterjection

   Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking.

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1. Full stop

   The full stop (Commonwealth English), period (North American English), or full point ., is a punctuation mark. It is used for several purposes, most often to mark the end of a declarative sentence (as distinguished from a question or exclamation). This sentence-ending use, alone, defines the strictest sense of full stop. Although full stop technically applies only when the mark is used to end a sentence, the distinction – drawn since at least 1897 – is not maintained by all modern style guides and dictionaries. The mark is also used, singly, to indicate omitted characters or, in a series, as an ellipsis (…), to indicate omitted words. It may be placed after an initial letter used to stand for a name or after each individual letter in an initialism or acronym (e.g., "U.S.A."). However, the use of full stops after letters in an initialism or acronym is declining, and many of these without punctuation have become accepted norms (e.g., "UK" and "NATO"). This trend has progressed somewhat more slowly in the United States than in other English language dialects. A full stop is frequently used at the end of word abbreviations – in British usage, primarily truncations like Rev., but not after contractions like Revd (in American English it is used in both cases). In the English-speaking world, a punctuation mark identical to the full stop is used as the decimal separator and for other purposes, and may be called a point. In computing, it is called a dot. It is sometimes called a baseline dot to distinguish it from the interpunct (or middle dot).

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1. full stop

   A full stop, also known as a period in American English, is a punctuation mark primarily used at the end of sentences in written language, to indicate that a particular thought or group of thoughts is complete. It can also be used in abbreviations, and in decimal numbers or to separate different parts of a document or address.

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1. Full stop

   A full stop or period is the punctuation mark placed to indicate the end of sentences. In the context of web addresses and computing in general, it is typically called a dot. Some experts call it a baseline dot, because it is a dot on the baseline, as distinct from an interpunct. In conversation, as opposed to linguistics, the term is often used to mean "the end of the matter".

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1. Full stop

   A punctuation mark used at the end of a sentence.

   
   

   Submitted by anonymous on May 5, 2020  

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How to pronounce full stop?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say full stop in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of full stop in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of full stop in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of full stop in a Sentence

1. Doug Parker:

   We support the federal mask mandate. Full stop. It was issued by the TSA and in consultation with CDC and other health experts to protect the safety and well-being of our customers and team members. Our job is to enforce the mandate, we look forward to the day when there will be no federal mask mandate for air travel, because that will mean the pandemic is behind us. But today is not that day.

2. Ken Cuccinelli:

   We're talking only about violent rioters. We're not talking about actual protesters. We're not seeking to interfere at all with anyone peacefully expressing themselves - period, full stop.

3. Mossack Fonseca:

   Legitimate whistleblowers who expose unquestionable wrongdoing, whether insiders or outsiders, deserve immunity from government retribution, full stop.

4. Vince Vaughn:

   I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars, we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It's not about duck hunting, it's about the ability of the individual. It's the same reason we have freedom of speech.

5. Hrvoje Tkalcic:

   The inner core doesn’t come to a full stop.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=full stop
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Full_Stop
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Stop
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=full stop