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margin
Noun
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A margin is the space on the sides of a page where there is no writing.
If you own the book, write notes in the margin.
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A margin is the difference between what the winner has and what the loser has.
The team won every game with an average 24-point victory margin per game.
The Board of Education voted by a narrow margin to accept the new standards.
Mitt Romney is leading in the latest polls by a slim margin, 29 percent of the vote to 's 26 percent.
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A margin is the difference between what a business pays for something and what it sells it for.
The current profit margins on those products run between 55 and 62 percent.
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A margin is extra time, room, money, etc. that you plan for in case something needs more.
There's almost no margin for error with the landing the plane.
The extra fuel that was carried along gave us a bit of a safety margin.
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A margin of error is the amount that the true value varies from the measured value.
The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
We produce these pieced to be 2.5 meters long, with an overall error margin of 1.4 millimeters.
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If somebody is on the margin(s), they are not a central member and have little power.
stop
Verb
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If you stop, you do not move; you rest.
He stopped after running 2 miles.
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If you stop something or somebody, you prevent them from moving or doing something. You cause the person to cease moving or progressing.
The police tried to stop the criminal, but he was too fast.
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If you stop doing something, you are not doing it anymore. You have ceased doing it.
I stopped playing video games and went back to working on my project.
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If you stop, you come to the end of the time when one is doing something. You start doing a different thing or start doing nothing.
stop
Noun
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A stop is a place where buses, cars, taxis, or other vehicles halt to let passengers board or leave (get on or off).