| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Cease.[Websters]
2. To be truncated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have abandoned, resigned, surrendered or jettisoned. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be jilted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have stayed, checked, deterred or thwarted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To be repressed or embanked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To have killed or choked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 8. To be deferred. [Eve - graph theoretic] 9. To have dismissed, disgorged or demitted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 10. To be polished.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb cease.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (cease) | 1. Put an end to a state or an activity.[Wordnet]. 2. Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo".[Wordnet]. 3. To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased.[Websters]. 4. To be wanting; to fail; to pass away.[Websters]. 5. To put a stop to; to bring to an end.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: ceasing, ceased, ceases, ceaser, ceasers, ceasingly and ceasedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being truncated.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being jilted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being repressed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being polished.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "CEASED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Specialty Definition: cease
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To stop moving, acting or speaking; to leave of; to give over; followed by from before a noun. It is an honor for a man to cease from strife. Prov. 20.. | 2: [Verb] To fail; to be wanting. The poor shall never cease out of the land. Deut. 15.. | 3: [Verb] To stop; to be at an end; as, the wonder ceases; the storm has ceased.. | 4: [Verb] To be forgotten. I would make the remembrance of them to cease. Deut. 32.. | 5: [Verb] To abstain; as, cease from anger. Ps. 37. To cease from labor, is to rest; to cease from strife, is to be quiet; but in such phrases, the sense of cease is not varied.. | 6: [Verb] To put a stop to; to put an end to. Cease this impious rage.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] (formal, intransitive) To stop. And with that, his twitching ceased. (references) | 2: [Verb] (formal, transitive) To stop doing (something). And with that, he ceased twitching. (references) | |
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Common Expressions: cease
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Cease and desist | Cease-and-desist is a legal term meaning essentially stop: It is used in demands for a person or organization to permanently stop doing something (to cease and desist from doing it). (references) | ||
| Cease and desist order | (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Cease Fire (Enterprise episode) | Archer negotiates a cease fire between Andorians and Vulcans. (references) | ||
| When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be | When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be is a poem by John Keats. It was written in January of 1818 and has the form of a Shakespearean sonnet. (references) | ||
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Specialty Expressions: CEASED
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Ceased publication | Art | Said of a periodical no longer published. Publication may start up again under the same title or an altered title. Also said of a work published in more than one volume, which was never completed. Library holdings are indicated in a closed entry. Compare with canceled and discontinued. See also: cessation. (references) | |
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Topics by Level of Interest: cease | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Cease Fire (Enterprise) | 12 | Cease and desist | 8 | |
| Cease to Begin | 12 | Cease Fire! | 3 | |
| Cease and desist | 8 | Cease Fire (Enterprise) | 12 | |
| Kyle Cease | 8 | Cease to Begin | 12 | |
| Jeff Cease | 7 | Cease to Suffer | 5 | |
| Cease to Suffer | 5 | Jeff Cease | 7 | |
| Cease Fire! | 3 | Kyle Cease | 8 | |
| When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be | 3 | When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be | 3 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
