FULL STOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does full stop mean? 

• FULL STOP (noun)
  The noun FULL STOP has 1 sense:

1. a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

  Familiarity information: FULL STOP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FULL STOP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

full point; full stop; period; point; stop

Context example:

in England they call a period a stop

Hypernyms ("full stop" is a kind of...):

punctuation; punctuation mark (the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "full stop"):

suspension point ((usually plural) one of a series of points indicating that something has been omitted or that the sentence is incomplete)

 Context examples 

This brought me to a full stop, and if fortune had not again particularly favoured me, I should have had to abandon my design.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Mercury will indeed be retrograde, so you will have to keep watching the details of the project, but overall, Mercury won’t bring you to a full stop.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Pray bring to your mind how often I desired you to consider, when you insisted on the motive of public good, that the Yahoos were a species of animals utterly incapable of amendment by precept or example: and so it has proved; for, instead of seeing a full stop put to all abuses and corruptions, at least in this little island, as I had reason to expect; behold, after above six months warning, I cannot learn that my book has produced one single effect according to my intentions.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He continued his plodding pursuit, though once, for the moment baffled, he came to a full stop and blinked at the men who looked on, at the same time wagging his stump of a tail as an expression of his willingness to fight.

(White Fang, by Jack London)