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Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Meaning of "stop time" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STOP TIME

stop time play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STOP TIME

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Stop time 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 TIME MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Stop-time

In tap dancing, jazz, and blues, stop-time is an accompaniment pattern interrupting, or stopping, the normal time and featuring regular accented attacks on the first beat of each or every other measure alternating with silence or solos. Stop-time appears infrequently in ragtime music. The characteristics of stop-time are heavy accents, frequent rests, and a stereotyped cadential pattern. Stop-timing may create the impression that the tempo has changed though it has not, Stop-time is, according to Samuel A. Floyd Jr., "a musical device in which the forward flow of the music stops, or seems to stop, suspended in a rhythmic unison, while in some cases an improvising instrumentalist or singer continues solo with the forward flow of the meter and tempo. Such stop-time moments are sometimes repeated, creating an illusion of starting and stopping, as, for example, in Scott Joplin’s 'The Ragtime Dance' and Jelly Roll Morton’s 'King Porter Stomp'." Joplin's "Stoptime Rag" employs stop-time throughout; it even lacks his characteristic four-bar introduction.

Definition of stop time in the English dictionary

The definition of stop time in the dictionary is a passage where the beat stops temporarily.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STOP TIME

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 press
stop sign
stop the show
stop thrust
stop-and-go
stop-and-start
stop-frame
stop-go

WORDS THAT END LIKE STOP TIME

ahead of time
all the time
at one time
at the same time
big time
from time to time
full time
in good time
in no time
in the fullness of time
in the nick of time
in time
local time
on time
once upon a time
opening time
real time
short time
summer time
the big time
time

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

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Translation of «stop time» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STOP TIME

Find out the translation of stop time to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of stop time 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 time» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

停止时间
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

detener el tiempo
570 millions of speakers

English

stop time
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

समय रोक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

وقف الوقت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

время остановки
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

parar o tempo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সময় বন্ধ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

arrêter le temps
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hentikan masa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Stoppzeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

停止時間
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

정지 시간
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mungkasi wektu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dừng thời gian
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நேரம் நிறுத்தவும்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

थांबा वेळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

durma zamanı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fermare il tempo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zatrzymać czas
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

час зупинки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

opri timpul
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

να σταματήσει το χρόνο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

stop tyd
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stopptid
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

stopptid
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stop time

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STOP TIME»

The term «stop time» is regularly used and occupies the 70.370 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STOP TIME» OVER TIME

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

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2 QUOTES WITH «STOP TIME»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word stop time.
1
Phil Anselmo
You can only exist as far as your mind will allow you to exist, and I think chronic pain will stop time dead in its tracks. You feel like you're the only one, and how unfair it is, and a million different feel-sorry-for-yourself type feelings.
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Elizabeth Gilbert
Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STOP TIME»

Discover the use of stop time in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stop time and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Stop-Time: A Memoir
Here is Frank Conroy's wry, sad, beautiful tale of life on the road; of odd jobs and lost friendships, brutal schools and first loves; of a father's early death and a son's exhilarating escape into manhood.
Frank Conroy, 1977
2
Chronograph Wristwatches: To Stop Time
Hundreds of photographs illustrate this outstanding look at the history, development, and identification of wrist chronographs-mechanical wristwatches that, in addition to their normal clockwork, have a mechanism that allows them to time ...
Gerd-R. Lang, Reinhard Meis, 1993
3
Time Control: How to Stop Time Destroyers, Eliminate ...
This book gives you what you need in order to get things done (and crossed off that to-do list). Remember, each minute that passes, you’ll never get back. It’s time to control your time and not let it escape you.
Justin Byers, 2011
4
Stop Time Theft: How to Get Back 8 Hours a Week in Wasted, ...
STOP TIME THEFT will show you how to get back that lost time YOUR WAY - the way that works best for you!
Richard Buchko, Jr., 2008
5
Inhibitory Control and Drug Abuse Prevention: From Research ...
For example, alcohol increased Stop time without affecting Go time in both rats and humans (de Wit et al. 2000; Feola et al. 2000), and amphetamine decreased Stop times in both humans and rats whose initial Stop times were slow.
Michael T. Bardo, Diana H. Fishbein, Richard Milich, 2011
6
Thief Of Time: (Discworld Novel 26)
Time is a resource.
Terry Pratchett, 2008
7
Mac OS X Lion In Depth
The default stop time is When you set a start or stop default stop time is very precise, even going to two decimal time, you don't change the track file in any way. You can play the the total track length, which also makes sense. Notice that the ...
Robyn Ness, 2011
8
Stop Time and Reflect
The book, hopefully by now, has you breathless and is captivating you as we go beyond the universe spiritually and find the greatest love of all. The book's intent is to leave you inspired and emotionally moved.
Steve Stevich, Francis Stevich, 2003
9
Age protectors: stop aging now with the latest breakthroughs ...
A natural approach to coping with aging presents strategies designed to help one look and feel younger
Edward Claflin, 2000
10
The Fermata
Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic ...
Nicholson Baker, 2011

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