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Meaning of "stop press" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STOP PRESS

stop press play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STOP PRESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Stop press 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 STOP PRESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

stop press

Stop press

"Stop Press" or "Stop the Presses" is a phrase stemming from the printed news media industry as an exclamation signifying the discovery of the need to change the content of an issue just before, or during its printing. Since this meant that the printing press literally had to be stopped or delayed and much of the existing copies of a publication which had already printed had to be discarded - which carried extreme cost, it is a phrase indicating the arrival of extremely significant news or the discovery of an extremely grave error. The phrase is common in an idiomatic context, referring to the discovery of significant information - perhaps most frequently used sarcastically.

Definition of stop press in the English dictionary

The definition of stop press in the dictionary is news items inserted into a newspaper after the printing has been started. Other definition of stop press is the space regularly left blank for this.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STOP PRESS

stop at nothing
stop bath
stop button
stop chorus
stop consonant
stop down
stop log
stop off
stop order
stop out
stop payment
stop plank
stop sign
stop the show
stop thrust
stop time
stop-and-go
stop-and-start
stop-frame
stop-go

WORDS THAT END LIKE STOP PRESS

actress
at the press
bench press
bench-press
compress
cypress
depress
empress
express
full-court press
hot press
hydraulic press
impress
letterpress
press
printing press
repress
rotary printing press
suppress
the press
to press

Synonyms and antonyms of stop press in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «stop press» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STOP PRESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

停止按
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

parada de prensa
570 millions of speakers

English

stop press
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

प्रेस बंद करो
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

توقف الصحافة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

остановка нажмите
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

parada imprensa
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রেস বন্ধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

presse d´arrêt
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berhenti tekan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Anschlag drücken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ストッププレス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

중지 를 누르십시오
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mungkasi pencet
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngưng ấn xuống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பத்திரிகை நிறுத்தவும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रेस थांबवा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Basın´ı durdur
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Stop Premere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

naciśnij przycisk Stop,
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

зупинка натисніть
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

oprire presă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πατήστε το πλήκτρο stop
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stop pers
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stop press
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stop trykk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stop press

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STOP PRESS»

The term «stop press» is quite widely used and occupies the 46.200 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STOP PRESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «stop press» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «stop press» 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 stop press

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STOP PRESS»

Discover the use of stop press in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stop press and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Stop Press
Famous writer, Richard Eliot, has written numerous detective novels, featuring 'The Spider', a daring, clever criminal in earlier books, and an equally canny private investigator in later ones.
Michael Innes, 2001
2
Stop press: a life in journalism
Memoirs of a Pakistani journalist.
Inam Aziz, Khālid Ḥasan, 2008
3
Stop Press: the last days of newspapers
The title of subeditor no longer exists at the paper. In this insightful, passionate book, Buchanan chronicles her experiences, providing a unique insider’s perspective on the rise and slow decline of the printed newspaper.
Rachel Buchanan, 2013
4
Stop Press
The world of newspapers and Fleet Street.
Tim Heald, 1998
5
How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text
Further differences between formes over the course of a print run emerge unintentionally, and these are known as 'mechanical' or 'accidental' variants, as opposed to stop-press corrections. Usually, these variants occur when loose type in the ...
Eugene Giddens, 2011
6
The Quest for Truth
STOP PRESS......STOP PRESS... In March 2007 the UK newspaper The Independent announced publicly that due to new medical evidence it would no longer support the legalisation of cannabis, and the paper apologised for its many years of ...
Alex Caldon, 2007
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004: A Century of Flight (Sybex ...
... CUT-OFF (press Ctrl+Shift+F2 Lei! Generator 0N um“ My back) Avionics Master Switch ON Magneto/Start Switches OFF AFTER ENGINES STOP (press BEFORE TAKEOFF (RUNUP) I M+Mlnus key to L, R, OFF) Avionics CHECK Battery and ...
Doug Radcliffe, 2006
8
Exercise Workbook for Beginning AutoCAD 2004
... Specify next point or [Undo]: place the cursor then press the left mouse button Specify next point or [Close/Undo]: to stop press <enter> or right mouse button and select "Enter" or "Close". DRAWING UNES WITH ORTHO (F8) "ON" Repeat # 2.
Cheryl R. Shrock, 2004
9
All Hell Broke Loose
... Real Meat—which has its headquarters in Chicago. The FBI was alerted by the CIA who had conducted an analysis of the immensely popular 438 EvElyn MundEll CNN AND BBC —URGENT BULLETIN—STOP PRESS!
Evelyn Mundell, 2010
10
All for Love
The second quarto, 1692 (Q2), was printed from a copy of Ql having all stop- press variants in the corrected state, and the third quarto, 1696 (Q3), was set from Q2. The fourth quarto of 1703 (Q4) is a pagc-for-page reprint of Q3, and the fifth ...
John Dryden, David M. Vieth, 1972

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STOP PRESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stop press is used in the context of the following news items.
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Stop Press! Ello Is Not Made Of Gumdrops And Kittens
Hyperbolic headlines heralding a mass exodus from Facebook to Ello gave way to tears and rending of cloth on Thursday when it became clear the shiny new ... «ReadWrite, Sep 14»
2
Stop press: Melbourne's best jaffles
Growing up, Lawson loaded up his sandwich press with ''anything you'd have on a jacket potato''. But Lenzer cautions jaffle lovers to be conservative with ... «Good Food, May 14»
3
Newspapers in legal bid to stop press regulation charter
Newspaper and magazine publishers are seeking a last-minute injunction to stop the proposed royal charter on press regulation being approved. At the High ... «BBC News, Oct 13»
4
Stop Press: we need to save journalism, not newspapers
Rachel Buchanan's Stop Press is the latest addition to the growing list of publications about the death of newspapers and the transition to digital journalism. «The Conversation, Oct 13»
5
STOP PRESS: a different mistake but a more convincing solution in …
I wrote a post yesterday about my discovery of the manuscript of the first version of Tchaikovsky's 1st piano concerto and my excitement at the correction in blue ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 13»
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Stop press!
HE WAS a media darling before his inauguration in 2007, but President Rafael Correa's adversarial relationship with the press has counted among the defining ... «The Economist, Jun 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Stop press [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/stop-press>. Apr 2024 ».
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