What's the difference between slop and stop?

Slop


Definition:

  • (n.) Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.
  • (n.) Mean and weak drink or liquid food; -- usually in the plural.
  • (n.) Dirty water; water in which anything has been washed or rinsed; water from wash-bowls, etc.
  • (v. t.) To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.
  • (v. t.) To spill liquid upon; to soil with a liquid spilled.
  • (v. i.) To overflow or be spilled as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; -- often with over.
  • (v. i.) Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock.
  • (v. i.) A loose lower garment; loose breeches; chiefly used in the plural.
  • (v. i.) Ready-made clothes; also, among seamen, clothing, bedding, and other furnishings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One trader wrote, on 10 March 2006: "I don't know how we dispose of the slops and I don't imply we would dump them, but for sure, there must be some way to pay someone to take them."
  • (2) The crude slop gave better results than the diluted or centrifuged liquors.
  • (3) The company has said the "slops" were dumped by a licensed local independent contractor, Compagnie Tommy, which was appointed in good faith.
  • (4) Their new album continues the generic cross-breeding that Funkadelic practised – on Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, Cosmic Slop, etc – from the black side of the racial border.
  • (5) Towers of pre-buttered bread, greasy counters and tubs of slop were dispiritingly common: Pret was clean, sleek and sensibly designed.
  • (6) Water slops from the pool on to the parquet where, in a few days, a baby will hopefully be sleeping in a moses basket.
  • (7) So if there is a heatwave this summer, it would be best for us, too, to slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen and slap on a hat.
  • (8) A perfectionist, this old-school hotelier strives to make even the most uncivilised environment palatable: his delicate approach to serving prison slop brings one of the film's funniest moments.
  • (9) This was especially true for the slop displacement test, which revealed large amounts of displacement after a single moderate torsional load, whereas in the underreamed groups significantly less loosening was found.
  • (10) One might agree that the mechanically recovered slop that is the main ingredient of these balls should not be called “meat”.
  • (11) You could water window boxes with dish-slop, though, and that was another tip: take a shower by standing under Selfridges' petunias, which were given a pretty upmarket daily dousing in water largely free from bits of crud and washing-up-liquid slick.
  • (12) They repeated denials that the slops could have caused death or serious injury, and were highly toxic.
  • (13) The hull rolled high and slid off to the right, dumping Claude Ledet into the terrible slop, and as he went under, his mind came back to a splintered version of the present, and he knew at once that he had to get back to the surface because the boy, he felt sure, would jump after him, and a news account he'd read thirty years before of a grandfather and grandson gone fishing and not coming back in at the appointed time bloomed into his head, because when the sheriff's men dragged the canal the next morning the hooks brought up together the grandfather and a four-year-old boy wrapped tightly in his arms.
  • (14) You know exactly what's going to happen on the long and grisly way out: the hoists, nappies, hernia, commodes, aphasia, swallowing problems and being spoon-fed slop.
  • (15) ), just bubblegum pap, and televised slop, for the masses.
  • (16) The good news is that a combination of sunscreen and covering up can reduce melanoma rates, as shown by Australian figures from their slip, slop, slap campaign .
  • (17) Unlike the accelerated Britpunk of much west-coast hardcore, the Peppers’ influences are mainly American – the Germs, Ohio Players, Jimi Hendrix, P-Funk, Dead Kennedys, Captain Beefheart, etc – yet the most audible ingredient of their cosmic slop is the Gang of Four’s judderfunk.
  • (18) Total cerebral blood flow was caliculated by bicompartmental analysis and compared to the two minutes initial slop index.
  • (19) Rotational micromotion, permanent rotational displacement, and slop displacement between bone and implant were measured with linearly variable differential transducers under torsional loading.
  • (20) Graphs of minute ventilation (V) versus mean CO2 for families of oscillation sizes (0.5%, 1% and 2%) showed that the ventilatory sensitivity (slop) was least for the 2% oscillations and greatest for the 0.5% oscillations.

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.