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unstopped [ʌnˈstɒpt] adj 1. not obstructed or stopped up 2. (Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology) Phonetics denoting a speech sound for whose articulation the closure is not complete, as in the pronunciation of a vowel, fricative, or continuant 3. (Literature / Poetry) Prosody (of verse) having the sense of the line carried over into the next 4. (Music, other) (of an organ pipe or a string on a musical instrument) not stopped How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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IN the morning we went up to the village and bought a wire rat-trap and fetched it down, and unstopped the best rat-hole, and in about an hour we had fifteen of the bulliest kind of ones; and then we took it and put it in a safe place under Aunt Sally's bed. Not in those very words, but if we leave an earth unstopped, it is the same as though we wished to save Abu Hussein from the hounds. The Blind Girl never knew that ceilings were discoloured, walls blotched and bare of plaster here and there, high crevices unstopped and widening every day, beams mouldering and tending downward. |
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