What's the difference between conjuration and stop?

Conjuration


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of calling or summoning by a sacred name, or in solemn manner; the act of binding by an oath; an earnest entreaty; adjuration.
  • (n.) The act or process of invoking supernatural aid by the use of a magical form of words; the practice of magic arts; incantation; enchantment.
  • (n.) A league for a criminal purpose; conspiracy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Tim Krul had already made a splendid save to keep out Agüero, and Dzeko had put another effort narrowly wide, before the early bombardment conjured up the opening goal.
  • (2) My regret at not eating these tasty snacks is soon allayed by Sara’s magical wilderness cooking skills: she somehow conjures up a three-course dinner from a few packets and a single burner.
  • (3) Bastille were 2013's big British breakthrough band, but you'd be hard-pushed to mentally conjure the image of what they actually look like.
  • (4) Photograph: Mondadori via Getty Images Because that decade was scarred by multiple evils, the phrase can be used to conjure up serial spectres.
  • (5) But then this isn’t really a team yet, more a working model conjured out of the air by Klopp’s whirling hands on the touchline.
  • (6) Suárez conjured space on the left of the box and his cross-shot bounced off the post and out to Downing, who sidestepped two defenders before firing a shot that Kenny beat into the path of Kuyt, who poked the ball in from five yards.
  • (7) Quietly, the children would huddle together and ask each other: “What will you have for breakfast?” And I remember saying: “Maybe an egg or a piece of bread and butter,” and tried to conjure up memories of home.
  • (8) As one author so aptly states, "Not too many years ago the words grandma and grandpa conjured images of rocking chairs and inactivity.
  • (9) In her journals, Cook conjured her in her mind, and it was someone other than herself.
  • (10) Young people now may hardly know her, and it is hard today to conjure up the sexiness, the daring, the insolence of some women on screen in the 50s when the Production Code still prevailed.
  • (11) Obama was politically isolated, unable to conjure broad international support or congressional backing.
  • (12) I fear that Corbyn is likely to discover, pretty quickly, that the rhetoric of change is easier to conjure than change itself.
  • (13) And despite the images of backroom deals and leather furniture that a snifter conjures up, whiskey is for everyone.
  • (14) Their loss has been our gain as the longlist casts a wide net in terms of both geography and tone, ranging from the slimmest of novels – Colm Tóibín's stark, surprising The Testament of Mary conjures the gospel according to Jesus's mother in a mere 100-odd pages – to vast doorstops, playful with genre and form.
  • (15) He then wins the next point after conjuring a perfect return from a near-perfect serve, after a drop-shot that Nadal returns with not quite enough interest, but clips the top of the net at 30-40 and the game's gone.
  • (16) "I don't want to be doing plays that are conjuring badness, because they make you feel full of badness.
  • (17) Kyrgios overcame a back injury and a two-set deficit to somehow conjure a 5-7, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (7-5), 8-6 fourth-round triumph over Andreas Seppi at Melbourne Park on Sunday night.
  • (18) You cannot conjure your actual personality, which you can remember only vaguely, in a theoretical sense.
  • (19) Brendan Rodgers' team had made enough chances in a vastly improved second half display to merit the point but arguably Sturridge and certainly Suárez should not have been on the pitch to conjure the late reprieve.
  • (20) The ghosts of some of those conjured characters seem to inhabit the space.

Stop


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
  • (v. t.) To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
  • (v. t.) To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.
  • (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.
  • (v. t.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.
  • (v. t.) To point, as a composition; to punctuate.
  • (v. t.) To make fast; to stopper.
  • (v. i.) To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.
  • (v. i.) To cease from any motion, or course of action.
  • (v. i.) To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
  • (n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.
  • (n.) That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.
  • (n.) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
  • (n.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.
  • (n.) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.
  • (n.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.
  • (n.) A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.
  • (n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
  • (n.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.
  • (n.) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Decreased MU stops additions of bone by modeling and increases removal of bone next to marrow by remodeling.
  • (2) The stopped-flow technique was used to measure the rate constants for the reactions between the oxidized forms of peroxidase with luminol and the following substrates: p-iodophenol, p-bromophenol, p-clorophenol, o-iodophenol, m-iodophenol, luciferin, and 2-iodo-6-hydroxybenzothiazole.
  • (3) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
  • (4) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
  • (5) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
  • (6) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
  • (7) There are no oceans wide enough to stop us from dreaming.
  • (8) At the ceremony, the Taliban welcomed dialogue with Washington but said their fighters would not stop fighting.
  • (9) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
  • (10) She stopped working only when the pain made it hard for her to get to work.
  • (11) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
  • (12) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
  • (13) Control measures were introduced rapidly, effectively stopping the epidemic.
  • (14) Both strong-stop DNAs are made early during in vitro reactions and decline in concentration later, consistent with postulated roles as initiators of long minus- and plus-strand DNA.
  • (15) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
  • (16) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
  • (17) Bacteria can stop or lessen antibodies synthesis process.
  • (18) Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life’s hard classes.
  • (19) The scatter measurement was made using a standard imaging geometry with both beam stops and an additional x-ray detector placed behind the standard imaging detector.
  • (20) Thirteen of the dogs treated with various drug regimens lived for 90 days, after which time treatment was stopped; 10 of the dogs eventually rejected the grafts, but three had continued graft function for 6 months or longer and may be permanently tolerant.

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