standstill

See also: stand still

English

Etymology

From stand +‎ still. Compare Dutch stilstand (“standstill”), German Stillstand (“standstill”), Danish stilstand (“standstill”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈstændˌstɪl/
• (æ-tensing, US, Canada) IPA^(key): [ˈstɛəndˌstɪɫ]

  • Audio (Austin, Texas):

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• Rhymes: -ɪl

Noun

standstill (countable and uncountable, plural standstills)

1. Complete immobility; a halt.

   The wreck brought traffic to a standstill for hours.

   • 1960 March, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 184:

     [...] but in the damp conditions prevailing the driver sensibly was unwilling to attempt the climb up through Combe Down tunnel without help, for fear of slipping to a standstill in the unventilated bore, [...].

   • 2012, James C. Spohrer, Louis E. Freund, Advances in the Human Side of Service Engineering‎^[1]:

     For the caller the advantage relies on a fast solution of his service request, leading to less standstill and non-productive periods for the service customer.

Synonyms

• deadlock
• dead stand
• grind
• halt
• idle
• impasse

 

Antonyms

• motion
• movement

Derived terms

• standstill agreement

Translations

complete immobility

• Azerbaijani: durğunluq
• Bulgarian: засто́й (bg) m (zastój), безде́йствие (bg) n (bezdéjstvie)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 停頓／停顿 (zh) (tíngdùn)

• Danish: stilstand m
• Dutch: stilstand (nl)
• Esperanto: halto
• Finnish: pysähtyminen (fi)
• French: arrêt (fr) m, immobilisation (fr) f, paralysie (fr) f, surplace (fr) m
• Galician: paralización (gl) f
• Georgian: უძრაობა (uʒraoba), უმოქმედობა (umokmedoba), გაჩერება (gačereba), შეჩერება (šečereba), შეწყვეტა (šec̣q̇veṭa)
• German: Stillstand (de) m
• Hungarian: mozdulatlanság (hu), leállás (hu), megállás (hu), szünetelés (hu), üzemszünet (hu), holtpont (hu), bénultság (hu), nyugalmi állapot/helyzet
• Interlingua: immobilisation, paralyse
• Irish: stad (ga) m
• Italian: fermata (it), blocco (it) m, fermo (it) m, arresto (it) m, punto morto m, stallo (it) m, vicolo cieco m, stasi (it) f, stanca (it) f
• Japanese: 停止 (ja) (ていし, teishi), 停頓 (ja) (ていとん, teiton)
• Latin: immobilizatio
• Macedonian: за́стој m (zástoj), безде́јствие n (bezdéjstvie), бе́здејство n (bézdejstvo)
• Maori: whakamāraritanga
• Norwegian: stillstand (no)
• Polish: zastój (pl) m
• Portuguese: paralisação (pt)
• Romanian: oprit (ro), imobilizat (ro)
• Russian: остано́вка (ru) f (ostanóvka), засто́й (ru) m (zastój), безде́йствие (ru) n (bezdéjstvije), просто́й (ru) m (prostój) (esp. at work)
• Spanish: parada (es)
• Vietnamese: bế tắc (vi), dừng (vi)

Anagrams

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