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The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
Robert Anton Wilson

Meaning of "standstill" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STANDSTILL

standstill  [ˈstændˌstɪl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STANDSTILL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Standstill is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES STANDSTILL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of standstill in the English dictionary

The definition of standstill in the dictionary is a complete cessation of movement; stop; halt.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STANDSTILL


apostil
əˈpɒstɪl
apostille
əˈpɒstɪl
bestill
bɪˈstɪl
instil
ɪnˈstɪl
instill
ɪnˈstɪl
pastil
ˈpæstɪl
pastille
ˈpæstɪl
pistil
ˈpɪstɪl
postil
ˈpɒstɪl
redistil
ˌriːdɪˈstɪl
still
stɪl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STANDSTILL

standing room
standing start
standing stone
standing water
standing wave
standish
standoff
standoff missile
standoffish
standoffishly
standoffishness
standout
standover
standover man
standpat
standpatter
standpattism
standpipe
standpoint
standstill agreement

WORDS THAT END LIKE STANDSTILL

bill
fill
grill
Higher Still
hill
ill
intertill
kill
mill
patent still
pot still
rototill
run of the mill
skill
stand still
stock still
stock-still
till
what you will
will

Synonyms and antonyms of standstill in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «STANDSTILL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «standstill» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of standstill
halt · stand · stop

Translation of «standstill» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STANDSTILL

Find out the translation of standstill to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of standstill from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «standstill» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

停止
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

estancamiento
570 millions of speakers

English

standstill
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ठहराव
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الجمود
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

покоя
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

parada
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অচল অবস্থা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

arrêt
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

berdiri tegak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Stillstand
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

停止
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

정지
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Standstill
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bế tắc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நின்றுபோனது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ठोसा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

duraklama
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

arresto totale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

standstill
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

спокою
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

impas
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ακινησία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stilstand
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stands
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stillstand
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of standstill

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STANDSTILL»

The term «standstill» is quite widely used and occupies the 39.134 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STANDSTILL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «standstill» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «standstill» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about standstill

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7 QUOTES WITH «STANDSTILL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word standstill.
1
Barbara Castle
Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.
2
Bjorn Lomborg
Listen, global warming is a real problem, but it' s not the end of the world. A 30-centimetre sea level rise is just not going to bring the world to a standstill, just like it didn't over the last 150 years.
3
Beverley Mitchell
I started working on a line of clothes last year, but right now we're kind of at a standstill.
4
James Cash Penney
Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.
5
Barbara Tuchman
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
6
Jenna Ushkowitz
If you say, 'You've made it,' then you kind of come to a standstill, and I don't think any actor wants to do that.
7
Robert Anton Wilson
The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STANDSTILL»

Discover the use of standstill in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to standstill and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Standstill
Returning from holiday, a group of twenty-somethings find themselves in an altered world. Join Victor Ogroid and his friends in a comic adventure through their first year of survival.
David Neilson, 2005
2
Ethics at a standstill: history and subjectivity in Levinas ...
Asher Horowitz explores the philosophies of Levinas and the critical theorists of the Frankfurt School, demonstrating the ways in which their works diverge from and complement each other.
Asher Horowitz, 2008
3
Standstill
the inescapability of the dream is accepted. the Dream is multilayered, and you may travel among the bubbles... ...and when we made it to the end, we saw even Enlightenment to be an illusion.
Brendan J. Card, 2006
4
Valuing Your Business: Strategies to Maximize the Sale Price
The justification for these no—shop or standstill agreements is that the buyer must make significant expenditures to perform and complete its due diligence and to pay attorneys to draft a definitive sale agree— ment and, therefore, the buyer ...
Frederick D. Lipman, 2005
5
Walter Benjamin: Philosophy
9. DIALECTICS. AT. A. STANDSTILL. Approaches. to. the. Passagen-. Werk. Rolf. Tiedemann. Source: Gary Smith (ed.), On Walter Benjamin: Critical Essays and Recollections, translated by Gary Smith and Andre Lefevere, Cambridge MA: ...
Peter Osborne, 2005
6
India-Pakistan Relations with Special Reference to Kashmir
Early action desirable to maintain intact existing agreements and administrative arrangements." 63. Before the Prime Minister could come to discuss these matters, Kashmir was invaded. Therefore, the standstill agreements which they were ...
Ed. K.R. Gupta, 2006
7
The Report: Turkey 2009
CONFIDENTIALITY AND STANDSTILL AGREEMENTS Confidentiality agreement: An early step in the restructuring process is for the company to agree on confidentiality agreements with the creditors participating in the restructuring process.
Oxford Business Group, 2009
8
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Corporate Restructurings
Standstill Agreements A standstill agreement occurs when the target corporation reaches a contractual agreement with a potential acquirer whereby the would-be acquirer agrees not to increase its holdings in the target during a particular time ...
Patrick A. Gaughan, 2010
9
Megalithic Lunar Observatories
The relation of perigee to the declination maximum use of the lengths of the Draconic and anomalistic months given in Appendix A. Assume that at a certain standstill it so happened that the declination maximum and perigee (the parallax  ...
Alexander Thom, 1971
10
McNeill's Code. (1908 Edition)
76987 Prom every standpoint 76988 From my (our) standpoint 76989 From your ( 's) standpoint 76990 Desirable from all standpoints to consider 76991 STANDSTILL 76992 At a standstill 76993 Almost at a standstill 76994 At a standstill ...
Bedford McNeill, 1908

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STANDSTILL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term standstill is used in the context of the following news items.
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Heavy rains bring Mumbai to a standstill
Heavy rains bring Mumbai to a standstill. 1/17. Slow. Fast. Heavy rains bring Mumbai to a standstill PTI. Play Slideshow. Loading... Autoplay switched off ... «Economic Times, Jul 15»
2
Gypsy funeral for Davey Jones in Staffordhsire sees 5000 travellers …
View comments. An entire village was brought to a standstill when more than 5,000 travellers attended the funeral of a legendary gypsy preacher this afternoon. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
3
Continuous rains; Mumbai at a standstill
Continuous rains; Mumbai at a standstill. Mumbai has been receiving incessant rains which has lead to cancellation of many flights and trains. On the other hand ... «ABP Live, Jun 15»
4
Vehicle inspections at a standstill after state system shutdown
Texas vehicle inspections are at a standstill after the state system that inspectors use was not working on Monday. (Source: KLTV Staff). TYLER, TX (KLTV) -. «KLTV, Jun 15»
5
Traffic jam on I-264 turns into jam session
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — A local band decided to perform a mini-concert for frustrated drivers and passengers after traffic came to a standstill on ... «WAVY-TV, May 15»
6
American Apparel sues Charney for violating standstill agreement
(Reuters) - Apparel retailer American Apparel sued its ousted chief executive Dov Charney for violating his standstill agreement with the company. The company ... «Business Insider, May 15»
7
'Biblical' swarm of bees brings Farnham to standstill
A swarm of bees brought the town centre of Farnham, Surrey to a standstill on Wednesday. The swarm emerged from nowhere causing people to flee indoors, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 15»
8
Stuck alligator brings traffic to a standstill
The alligator's tight spot brought traffic to a standstill as motorists snapped pictures and police rushed to try to keep traffic moving. Goodwin said she wasn't ... «WPXI Pittsburgh, May 15»
9
Scarborough comes to a standstill
Scarborough comes to a standstill. editorial image. 17:31 Friday 01 May 2015. 0. Have your say. Scarborough roared home the riders in the first ever Tour de ... «Whitby Today, May 15»
10
Exclusive: Intel's standstill with Altera expires in June - sources
Intel Corp (INTC.O) signed a standstill agreement earlier this year with Altera Corp (ALTR.O) that expires on June 1, giving the world's largest chipmaker the ... «Reuters, Apr 15»

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