Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
full stop, period (British printers' term)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Topics: media, publishing, typography
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: period, point, full stop, stop
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: punctuation, punctuation mark
Narrower terms: suspension point
History
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