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Definition of Full stop

1. Noun. 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"

Definition of Full stop

1. Noun. (British Australia NZ South Africa) The punctuation mark “(unsupported .)” (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation). ¹

2. Interjection. (colloquial) Used to emphasize the end of an important statement or point when speaking. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Full Stop

Literary usage of Full stop

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (1904)
"103,1 2i, a full stop takes the place of a comma• p. 123, a full stop has been supplied after ' Subject' in the side- note• p. 135, 1 6, a full stop takes ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"... to which the deceased was exposed, he could have brought the train to a full stop about 100 yarda before he reached the boy sleeping upon the track. ..."

3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Called parentheses, and is a comma ; ; is a semicolon ; : is a colon ; . is a point or full stop. ..."

4. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"Train Must Be at full stop.— Holmes f. Wakefield.i: Allen Mi-si;So; Sanford r. Eighth Ave. R.Co,:• ney, 34 Minn. 311. 3. Railway Co. r. Valle! ..."

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