📖 S — The English dictionary · page 99

stopcock — Everyday, meaning 1: A stopcock is a tap or valve on a water pipe that you turn to stop or start the flow of water into a house or to part of the plumbing.↗ Example: Dad turned off the stopcock when the pipe burst.↗ · The stopcock is under the kitchen sink.↗ · Do you know where your stopcock is?↗ · The plumber turned the stopcock before fixing the tap.↗ · Turn the stopcock clockwise to close it.↗ · Water poured out until Mum found the stopcock.↗ · Ask an adult to show you the stopcock in your home.↗

stopped — Everyday, meaning 1: Stopped means came to an end or made something end: «The rain stopped».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Stopped means no longer moving: «The bus stopped at the corner».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Stopped can mean blocked: «a stopped sink».↗ Example: The rain stopped at last.↗ · The car stopped at the red light.↗ · She stopped to tie her shoe.↗ · He stopped eating sweets.↗ · The clock stopped at midnight.↗ · Wait until the bus has stopped before you get off.↗ · We stopped for lunch on the way.↗ · Suddenly the noise stopped.↗ · They stopped in a wide courtyard.↗ · the fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained.↗ (Torah GEN.8.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Now all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.↗ (Torah GEN.26.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue: whether his flesh run with his issue, or his flesh be stopped from his issue, it is his uncleanness.↗ (Torah LEV.15.3, JPS 1917)↗ · But they refused to attend, and turned a stubborn shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.↗ (Prophets ZEC.7.11, JPS 1917)↗ · But the king shall rejoice in God; every one that sweareth by Him shall glory; for the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.↗ (Writings PSA.63.12, JPS 1917)↗ · This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of the city of David.↗ (Writings 2CH.32.30, JPS 1917)↗

stopper — Everyday, meaning 1: A stopper is a plug or cork that fits into the top of a bottle or jar to close it.↗ Example: Pull the stopper out of the bottle.↗ · The jar had a cork stopper.↗ · Put the stopper back in the jar.↗

stopping — Everyday, meaning 1: Stopping means coming to an end or no longer moving.↗ e.g. The bus is stopping.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Stopping can mean making someone or something stop: stopping the ball.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Stopping can mean staying somewhere for a short time.↗ e.g. We are stopping at Gran's tonight.↗ Example: The train is stopping at the next station.↗ · Rain is not stopping soon.↗ · Cars need a long stopping distance on wet roads.↗ · The goalkeeper is good at stopping penalties.↗ · He ran without stopping.↗ · We are stopping at a café for lunch.↗ · Brakes make the bike stop by friction.↗ · Thank you for stopping by.↗

stopwatch — Everyday, meaning 1: A watch or timer that can be started and stopped by pressing a button, to measure exactly how long something takes.↗ Example: The coach timed my sprint with a stopwatch.↗ · Start the stopwatch when the ball is dropped.↗ · The stopwatch showed 12.45 seconds.↗ · Ali ran in 9.8 seconds and Ben in 10.3, so Ali was 0.5 seconds faster.↗ · Most phones have a stopwatch app.↗ · Repeat the timing three times and find the average.↗

storage — Everyday, meaning 1: Storage is keeping things in a place until they are needed.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Storage is a space where things are kept, like cupboards, boxes or a shed.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In computers, storage is the space for saving files and photos.↗ Example: We keep the camping gear in storage in the garage.↗ · This room has lots of storage.↗ · Put the toys in the storage boxes.↗ · Good food storage keeps food fresh and safe.↗ · My tablet has no storage left for more photos.↗ · Their furniture is in storage while they move house.↗ · Squirrels make storage places for nuts in autumn.↗

store — Everyday, meaning 1: A store is a shop where people buy things (the usual word in American English).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To store means to keep things in a place until you need them.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A store is a supply kept for later: a store of food for winter.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A storeroom is a room for keeping things.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: A department store is a big shop with many sections.↗ Example: The store has 40 apples.↗ · Mom bought 3 shirts at the store.↗ · The store sold 25 toys on Monday.↗ · He stores 6 jars on each shelf.↗ · Squirrels store nuts for the winter.↗ · Store the milk in the fridge.↗ · The computer stores all my photos.↗ · Who knows what surprises are in store for us?↗ · But there was another surprise and fright in store for them.↗ · And they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Raamses.↗ (Torah EXO.1.11, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Is not this laid up in store with Me, sealed up in My treasuries?↗ (Torah DEU.32.34, JPS 1917)↗ · And ye shall eat old store long kept, and ye shall bring forth the old from before the new.↗ (Torah LEV.26.10, JPS 1917)↗ · The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store.↗ (Prophets HOS.13.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store.↗ (Writings 2CH.17.12, JPS 1917)↗ · And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store-cities, which he built in Hamath.↗ (Writings 2CH.8.4, JPS 1917)↗

storehouse — Everyday, meaning 1: A storehouse is a building where food, goods or supplies are kept.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A storehouse of something is a place or person full of a lot of it: a storehouse of knowledge.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Bible) In Bible stories storehouses hold grain for hard times, as in the story of Joseph in Egypt.↗ Example: The farmers kept the wheat in a big storehouse.↗ · The castle had a storehouse full of food for the winter.↗ · Christians read that Joseph filled the storehouses of Egypt before the famine.↗ · Our library is a storehouse of knowledge.↗ · Gran is a storehouse of old stories.↗ · The squirrels' nest was a little storehouse of nuts.↗ · You had better take the body to the storehouse.↗ · And the famine was over all the face of the earth; and Joseph opened all the storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.↗ (Torah GEN.41.56, JPS 1917)↗ · To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the Storehouse.↗ (Writings 1CH.26.15, JPS 1917)↗ · He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap; He layeth up the deeps in storehouses.↗ (Writings PSA.33.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Eastward were six Levites, northward four a day, southward four a day, and for the Storehouse two and two.↗ (Writings 1CH.26.17, JPS 1917)↗

storeroom — Everyday, meaning 1: A room where things are kept until they are needed, such as supplies, equipment or food.↗ Example: The PE balls are kept in the storeroom.↗ · Please fetch some paper from the storeroom.↗ · The shop's storeroom is full of boxes.↗ · We found old toys in the storeroom at the back.↗ · The storeroom has 12 shelves with 15 tins on each, so 180 tins.↗ · Only staff may go into the storeroom.↗ · It was dark and dusty in the storeroom.↗ · The chulan is a kind of closet, generally used as a storeroom for provisions, &c.↗

storey — Everyday, meaning 1: A storey is one floor or level of a building.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: "Multi-storey" describes a building with many floors, like a multi-storey car park.↗ Example: We live in a two-storey house.↗ · The library is on the top storey of the building.↗ · The multi-storey car park was full.↗ · The giant was as tall as a three-storey building.↗ · The new block of flats has twelve storeys.↗ · If each storey is 3 metres high, a 5-storey building is about 15 metres tall.↗ · His dwelling-house was a large building, three storeys high, with little turrets.↗

stork — Everyday, meaning 1: A stork is a large bird with long legs, a long neck and a long straight beak, that wades in wet places and eats fish, frogs and insects.↗ Example: A stork stood on one leg in the pond.↗ · Storks build big nests on rooftops.↗ · The stork caught a frog with its long beak.↗ · Storks fly south for the winter.↗ · In the cartoon, a stork carried the baby in a blanket.↗ · The white stork has black feathers on its wings.↗ · We saw storks on our holiday in Spain.↗ · A stork's legs are long and red.↗ · and the stork, and the heron after its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.↗ (Torah LEV.11.19, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherein the birds make their nests; as for the stork, the fir-trees are her house.↗ (Writings PSA.104.17, JPS 1917)↗ · The wing of the ostrich beateth joyously; but are her pinions and feathers the kindly stork's?↗ (Writings JOB.39.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but My people know not the ordinance of the LORD.↗ (Prophets JER.8.7, JPS 1917)↗

storm — Everyday, meaning 1: Very bad weather with strong winds and often heavy rain, snow, hail, thunder and lightning.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sudden show of strong feeling: a storm of clapping, a storm of anger.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Verb: to go somewhere quickly and angrily: «She stormed out of the room».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Verb: to attack a place suddenly.↗ Example: A big storm is coming tonight.↗ · The storm knocked down a tree.↗ · Stay indoors during a thunderstorm.↗ · We heard thunder and saw lightning in the storm.↗ · He stormed off in a temper.↗ · The ship was lost in the storm.↗ · Let's brainstorm ideas for our story.↗ · It was a storm in a teacup — a big fuss about nothing.↗ · There arose a very terrible storm.↗ · Wind is of course the herald of the storm, the Biblical symbol par excellence of the divine theophany, making wind a potent symbol of divine imminence.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · God has carried these through waters, He has borne them aloft through fire, and He has stamped them in the storms of the air; He has distributed them among the seven stars, and has assigned them to twelve celestial constellations.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)↗ · He drew them through water; stormed them through air, kind- led them in fire, and melted them into ten double and twelve simple letters.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · So pursue them with Thy tempest, and affright them with Thy storm.↗ (Writings PSA.83.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Out of the Chamber cometh the storm; and cold out of the north.↗ (Writings JOB.37.9, JPS 1917)↗ · He made the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof were still.↗ (Writings PSA.107.29, JPS 1917)↗

stormy — Everyday, meaning 1: Stormy weather has strong winds, heavy rain, thunder or big waves.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Stormy can describe feelings or meetings full of anger and shouting, like a stormy argument.↗ Example: It was a dark and stormy night.↗ · The ferry didn't sail because the sea was stormy.↗ · Stormy weather is coming this afternoon.↗ · Stay away from the beach on stormy days.↗ · The sky looked stormy and grey.↗ · They had a stormy argument about the game.↗ · Our picnic was ruined by stormy weather.↗ · It was a stormy night, with mist and rain.↗ · Fire and hail, snow and vapour, stormy wind, fulfilling His word; (Writings PSA.148.8, JPS 1917)↗ · I would haste me to a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.'↗ (Writings PSA.55.9, JPS 1917)↗ · For He commanded, and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves thereof; (Writings PSA.107.25, JPS 1917)↗

story — Everyday, meaning 1: A story tells about things that happen, true or made up.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A story is a news report.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A story (UK: storey) is one floor or level of a building.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «A story» can also mean a lie told by a child: «Don't tell stories».↗ Example: Ana read 4 stories before bed.↗ · Each story has 12 pages.↗ · The building has 20 stories.↗ · He wrote 3 stories this week.↗ · Dad tells us a story every night.↗ · Every good story has a beginning, a middle and an end.↗ · Is that a true story or made up?↗ · Each story of the tower is 3 meters tall.↗ · And that, madam, is my story.↗ · A light shalt thou make to the ark, and to a cubit shalt thou finish it upward; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it.↗ (Torah GEN.6.16, JPS 1917)↗ · And he built the stories of the side-structure against all the house, each five cubits high; and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.↗ (Prophets 1KI.6.10, JPS 1917)↗ · over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court; with gallery against gallery in three stories.↗ (Prophets EZK.42.3, JPS 1917)↗ · For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore room was taken away from the lowest and the middlemost, in comparison with the ground.↗ (Prophets EZK.42.6, JPS 1917)↗