HyperDic: full_stop

English > 1 sense of the expression full stop:
NOUNcommunicationfull stop, period, point, stop, full pointa punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
English > full stop: 1 sense > noun 1, communication
MeaningA punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations.
Synonymsperiod, point, stop, full point
Narrowersuspension point(usually plural) one of a series of points indicating that something has been omitted or that the sentence is incomplete
Broaderpunctuation, punctuation markThe marks used to clarify meaning / meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases
Spanishpunto
Catalanpunt

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