Meaning of short-stop | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To stop (a process, trip, trajectory, etc.) before it complete; to cause to stop short.
2. To play the position of shortstop.

Examples

“the check which we mentioned earlier as a prime example of present-day around-the-barn movement in the payments stream, might conceivably be short-stopped at a regional clearing center located in Maine.”

“Davis says Florida often gets "short-stopped” when an airline carrying a company site selector from California stops in Houston or Dallas or Austin.”

“He went to the hospital, where they short-stopped a heart attack, perhaps by minutes.”

“Nitrile rubbers, if they are to be used as dissolving resins, must be short-stopped at about 60 % conversion; otherwise an insoluble gel forms within the resin.”

“Either the intentionality of reference is accepted as a datum or it has to be explained. Folkism short-stops the question⟳, both ways.”

“In The Spirit of the Times, the most reliable sporting paper of the Coast, we find⟳ the following encouraging criticism on our baseball nine: " Koshland (a tower of strength to this league) short topped and ran bases as brilliantly as the best of professionals."”

“Baird, '12, has been catching, short-stopping, second-basing and left-fielding with varying good nature, but impartial ability and with commendable attention to such trifling details as hitting and base⟳ running, matters apparently beneath the notice⟳ of most of the team.”

“I have⟳ never known her to follow⟳ with any degree of avidity the fortunes of the Kansas City Monarchs, for whom Robinson short-stopped last⟳ season.”

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