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# standstill

«standstill» in Mova's school dictionary: **a complete stop, when nothing is moving** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (standstills)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A standstill is a complete stop, when nothing is moving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/standstill/#m1)

2) «Come to a standstill» means stop moving or stop making progress. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/standstill/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a journey or a battle halts, and nothing moves forward until something changes

### examples

- The traffic came to a standstill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/standstill/#x1)
- The horse came to a standstill by the graveyard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/standstill/#x2)
- Work was at a standstill during the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/standstill/#x3)
- The game came to a standstill when the ball got stuck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/standstill/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «standstill» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/standstill/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.