Definition of full stop in English:

full stop

noun

British

1A punctuation mark (.) used at the end of a sentence or an abbreviation.
句号，句点
North American term period (sense 4 of the noun)
Example sentencesExamples
- When he speaks it is well nigh impossible to keep track of what he is saying; the pauses are not commas, they are full stops.
- It was also virtually unreadable because, apart from full stops, he used no punctuation.
- I'm rather fond of my three full stops (not really a proper ellipsis), so I don't really want to remove them.
- The voice is the despair of typists and stenographers: there seems nothing to cling to, no pauses, no paragraphing, no full stops.
- Apart from his scattershot approach to consistency in terms of brackets and quotation marks, his random deployment of dashes, commas, full stops and (since he spotted me using them in the final text) semicolons, is a wonder to behold.
- It is a bit of a pity, when we have just rewritten the tax legislation at great expense and in a process that took some years, to put in those two provisions without any full stops in them.
- But I don't understand why they'd choose to randomly drop full stops out of the text.
- The writer uses no commas or full stops, and many of the words are misspelt.
- There don't seem to be any spaces after full stops and all the abbreviations make my brain hurt.
- You can get away with commas and full stops alone if all you are concerned with is simplicity and minimal sense, but if you have an ear for the music of prose, you will desire more subtlety in your ‘stopping’.
- Doug, don't worry about whether the grammar is right or whether the full stops are in the right place.
- You make punctuation mistakes on a regular basis, particularly by using commas when semi-colons or full stops are required.
- We have to teach them to answer the test correctly on Shakespeare's use of full stops and paragraphs.
- Or, as I have done, phoned up someone, got their voice mail and started putting commas and full stops into my message because I forgot I wasn't dictating.
- From my previous experience when one sends a bill to a select committee that is full of lawyers, they spend large amounts of time debating technically where the commas and the full stops are.
- An abbreviation is any contraction of a word or phrase, but it's applied particularly to contractions such as eg (here I follow common British practice in leaving out the full stops and spaces; you may prefer e.g.).
- Should full stops be inside or outside of bracketed statements?
- You might have guessed the format by now - four sets of numbers with values between 0 and 255, separated by periods (or full stops, or dots).
- And often people could no longer be bothered to put full stops at the end of sentences.
- The funniest thing is that CityRail disembodied voice announcement man sounds like he's inserting at least five full stops into a sentence that should rightfully only have one.
Synonyms
full point, point
1. 1.1as exclamation Used to suggest that there is nothing more to say on a topic.
  用于表示对某话题言尽于此不再多说，到此为止
  I just prefer it full stop
  Example sentencesExamples
  A qualified firefighter, who at the end of this will no doubt have to settle for far less than 40 per cent, would only be on a salary of £30,000 full stop.
  Erm, no Mother, I've been buying odds and ends there for 12 years now, no-one gets a discount, ever, full stop, and it's not as if I hadn't already told you that!
  In fact, even if you think his ideas are lousy full stop, his behaviour is lousy, his friends, clothes and the way he deals with the kids are lousy, you must never say so.
  You're right that I can't read Harry as anything other than damaged goods: I can't read him in the books, full stop, he doesn't make sense to me.
  He was prescribed medication by his doctor but he didn't like the side effects it had and didn't like taking them full stop.
  I am very sure that we should say that he should resign full stop.
  And in saying that, I believe the endgame is to privatise the whole of the benefits system, full stop!
  Since politics is all about the organisation of society, to be ‘socially’ liberal is to be liberal - full stop.
  Heck, I don't like doing exams on any day, full stop!
  I think I might even go beyond this - he has the most fantastic ear for dialogue full stop, which is why he has so many imitators, although none of them quite get the bark and bite of his words so well.
  The beach will not, cannot, and will never be sold to a bunch of foreigners - full stop!
  He said when Mr Howard was home secretary in 1996, he had put forward and passed through parliament an act that withdrew benefits from asylum seekers full stop, but that was overturned by the courts.
  The smoking issue is about personal choice: full stop.
  ‘We're not getting it right, full stop,’ he laughs, when I suggest he run down a list of the positives in new Scottish public space.
  On the question of votes to prisoners, he said: ‘We believe that citizens are citizens, full stop.’
  As well as hating smoking full stop, I hate anyone smoking in public places purely because the cigarette smoke always affects us non-smokers too.
  Crude monetarism still rules; if it makes money it works, if it doesn't it's wrong, full stop, and you don't have to listen to any other viewpoint because, well, they don't have any money do they?
  A quotation on the cover calls its author ‘the best historian, full stop, of that hallucinatory decade when politics imitated celluloid’.
2. 1.2 A complete cessation.
  her life had simply come to a full stop
  Example sentencesExamples
  His career will come to a full stop at the end of next year.
  Synonyms
  stalemate, impasse, checkmate, stand-off

Definition of full stop in US English:

full stop

nounˈˌfo͝ol ˈstäpˈˌfʊl ˈstɑp

British

A punctuation mark (.) used at the end of a sentence or an abbreviation; a period.
句号，句点
Example sentencesExamples
- It was also virtually unreadable because, apart from full stops, he used no punctuation.
- Or, as I have done, phoned up someone, got their voice mail and started putting commas and full stops into my message because I forgot I wasn't dictating.
- You can get away with commas and full stops alone if all you are concerned with is simplicity and minimal sense, but if you have an ear for the music of prose, you will desire more subtlety in your ‘stopping’.
- The voice is the despair of typists and stenographers: there seems nothing to cling to, no pauses, no paragraphing, no full stops.
- You make punctuation mistakes on a regular basis, particularly by using commas when semi-colons or full stops are required.
- Apart from his scattershot approach to consistency in terms of brackets and quotation marks, his random deployment of dashes, commas, full stops and (since he spotted me using them in the final text) semicolons, is a wonder to behold.
- Should full stops be inside or outside of bracketed statements?
- When he speaks it is well nigh impossible to keep track of what he is saying; the pauses are not commas, they are full stops.
- But I don't understand why they'd choose to randomly drop full stops out of the text.
- You might have guessed the format by now - four sets of numbers with values between 0 and 255, separated by periods (or full stops, or dots).
- And often people could no longer be bothered to put full stops at the end of sentences.
- Doug, don't worry about whether the grammar is right or whether the full stops are in the right place.
- There don't seem to be any spaces after full stops and all the abbreviations make my brain hurt.
- The funniest thing is that CityRail disembodied voice announcement man sounds like he's inserting at least five full stops into a sentence that should rightfully only have one.
- It is a bit of a pity, when we have just rewritten the tax legislation at great expense and in a process that took some years, to put in those two provisions without any full stops in them.
- The writer uses no commas or full stops, and many of the words are misspelt.
- An abbreviation is any contraction of a word or phrase, but it's applied particularly to contractions such as eg (here I follow common British practice in leaving out the full stops and spaces; you may prefer e.g.).
- From my previous experience when one sends a bill to a select committee that is full of lawyers, they spend large amounts of time debating technically where the commas and the full stops are.
- We have to teach them to answer the test correctly on Shakespeare's use of full stops and paragraphs.
- I'm rather fond of my three full stops (not really a proper ellipsis), so I don't really want to remove them.
Synonyms
full point, point

单词	full stop
释义	Definition of full stop in English: full stop noun British 1A punctuation mark (.) used at the end of a sentence or an abbreviation. 句号，句点 North American term period (sense 4 of the noun) Example sentencesExamples When he speaks it is well nigh impossible to keep track of what he is saying; the pauses are not commas, they are full stops. It was also virtually unreadable because, apart from full stops, he used no punctuation. I'm rather fond of my three full stops (not really a proper ellipsis), so I don't really want to remove them. The voice is the despair of typists and stenographers: there seems nothing to cling to, no pauses, no paragraphing, no full stops. Apart from his scattershot approach to consistency in terms of brackets and quotation marks, his random deployment of dashes, commas, full stops and (since he spotted me using them in the final text) semicolons, is a wonder to behold. It is a bit of a pity, when we have just rewritten the tax legislation at great expense and in a process that took some years, to put in those two provisions without any full stops in them. But I don't understand why they'd choose to randomly drop full stops out of the text. The writer uses no commas or full stops, and many of the words are misspelt. There don't seem to be any spaces after full stops and all the abbreviations make my brain hurt. You can get away with commas and full stops alone if all you are concerned with is simplicity and minimal sense, but if you have an ear for the music of prose, you will desire more subtlety in your ‘stopping’. Doug, don't worry about whether the grammar is right or whether the full stops are in the right place. You make punctuation mistakes on a regular basis, particularly by using commas when semi-colons or full stops are required. We have to teach them to answer the test correctly on Shakespeare's use of full stops and paragraphs. Or, as I have done, phoned up someone, got their voice mail and started putting commas and full stops into my message because I forgot I wasn't dictating. From my previous experience when one sends a bill to a select committee that is full of lawyers, they spend large amounts of time debating technically where the commas and the full stops are. An abbreviation is any contraction of a word or phrase, but it's applied particularly to contractions such as eg (here I follow common British practice in leaving out the full stops and spaces; you may prefer e.g.). Should full stops be inside or outside of bracketed statements? You might have guessed the format by now - four sets of numbers with values between 0 and 255, separated by periods (or full stops, or dots). And often people could no longer be bothered to put full stops at the end of sentences. The funniest thing is that CityRail disembodied voice announcement man sounds like he's inserting at least five full stops into a sentence that should rightfully only have one. Synonyms full point, point 1.1as exclamation Used to suggest that there is nothing more to say on a topic. 用于表示对某话题言尽于此不再多说，到此为止 I just prefer it full stop Example sentencesExamples A qualified firefighter, who at the end of this will no doubt have to settle for far less than 40 per cent, would only be on a salary of £30,000 full stop. Erm, no Mother, I've been buying odds and ends there for 12 years now, no-one gets a discount, ever, full stop, and it's not as if I hadn't already told you that! In fact, even if you think his ideas are lousy full stop, his behaviour is lousy, his friends, clothes and the way he deals with the kids are lousy, you must never say so. You're right that I can't read Harry as anything other than damaged goods: I can't read him in the books, full stop, he doesn't make sense to me. He was prescribed medication by his doctor but he didn't like the side effects it had and didn't like taking them full stop. I am very sure that we should say that he should resign full stop. And in saying that, I believe the endgame is to privatise the whole of the benefits system, full stop! Since politics is all about the organisation of society, to be ‘socially’ liberal is to be liberal - full stop. Heck, I don't like doing exams on any day, full stop! I think I might even go beyond this - he has the most fantastic ear for dialogue full stop, which is why he has so many imitators, although none of them quite get the bark and bite of his words so well. The beach will not, cannot, and will never be sold to a bunch of foreigners - full stop! He said when Mr Howard was home secretary in 1996, he had put forward and passed through parliament an act that withdrew benefits from asylum seekers full stop, but that was overturned by the courts. The smoking issue is about personal choice: full stop. ‘We're not getting it right, full stop,’ he laughs, when I suggest he run down a list of the positives in new Scottish public space. On the question of votes to prisoners, he said: ‘We believe that citizens are citizens, full stop.’ As well as hating smoking full stop, I hate anyone smoking in public places purely because the cigarette smoke always affects us non-smokers too. Crude monetarism still rules; if it makes money it works, if it doesn't it's wrong, full stop, and you don't have to listen to any other viewpoint because, well, they don't have any money do they? A quotation on the cover calls its author ‘the best historian, full stop, of that hallucinatory decade when politics imitated celluloid’. 1.2 A complete cessation. her life had simply come to a full stop Example sentencesExamples His career will come to a full stop at the end of next year. Synonyms stalemate, impasse, checkmate, stand-off Definition of full stop in US English: full stop nounˈˌfo͝ol ˈstäpˈˌfʊl ˈstɑp British A punctuation mark (.) used at the end of a sentence or an abbreviation; a period. 句号，句点 Example sentencesExamples It was also virtually unreadable because, apart from full stops, he used no punctuation. Or, as I have done, phoned up someone, got their voice mail and started putting commas and full stops into my message because I forgot I wasn't dictating. You can get away with commas and full stops alone if all you are concerned with is simplicity and minimal sense, but if you have an ear for the music of prose, you will desire more subtlety in your ‘stopping’. The voice is the despair of typists and stenographers: there seems nothing to cling to, no pauses, no paragraphing, no full stops. You make punctuation mistakes on a regular basis, particularly by using commas when semi-colons or full stops are required. Apart from his scattershot approach to consistency in terms of brackets and quotation marks, his random deployment of dashes, commas, full stops and (since he spotted me using them in the final text) semicolons, is a wonder to behold. Should full stops be inside or outside of bracketed statements? When he speaks it is well nigh impossible to keep track of what he is saying; the pauses are not commas, they are full stops. But I don't understand why they'd choose to randomly drop full stops out of the text. You might have guessed the format by now - four sets of numbers with values between 0 and 255, separated by periods (or full stops, or dots). And often people could no longer be bothered to put full stops at the end of sentences. Doug, don't worry about whether the grammar is right or whether the full stops are in the right place. There don't seem to be any spaces after full stops and all the abbreviations make my brain hurt. The funniest thing is that CityRail disembodied voice announcement man sounds like he's inserting at least five full stops into a sentence that should rightfully only have one. It is a bit of a pity, when we have just rewritten the tax legislation at great expense and in a process that took some years, to put in those two provisions without any full stops in them. The writer uses no commas or full stops, and many of the words are misspelt. An abbreviation is any contraction of a word or phrase, but it's applied particularly to contractions such as eg (here I follow common British practice in leaving out the full stops and spaces; you may prefer e.g.). From my previous experience when one sends a bill to a select committee that is full of lawyers, they spend large amounts of time debating technically where the commas and the full stops are. We have to teach them to answer the test correctly on Shakespeare's use of full stops and paragraphs. I'm rather fond of my three full stops (not really a proper ellipsis), so I don't really want to remove them. Synonyms full point, point
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