short-stop
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: 5.11 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To stop (a process, trip, trajectory, etc.) before it complete; to cause to stop short.
Example Sentences
- "the check which we mentioned earlier as a prime example of present-day around-the-barn movement in the payments stream, might conceivably be short-stopped at a regional clearing center located in Maine."
- "Davis says Florida often gets "short-stopped” when an airline carrying a company site selector from California stops in Houston or Dallas or Austin."
- "He went to the hospital, where they short-stopped a heart attack, perhaps by minutes."
- "Nitrile rubbers, if they are to be used as dissolving resins, must be short-stopped at about 60 % conversion; otherwise an insoluble gel forms within the resin."
- "Either the intentionality of reference is accepted as a datum or it has to be explained. Folkism short-stops the question, both ways."
- "In The Spirit of the Times, the most reliable sporting paper of the Coast, we find the following encouraging criticism on our baseball nine: " Koshland (a tower of strength to this league) short topped and ran bases as brilliantly as the best of professionals.""