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顿
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Definitions
- 1. to stop
- 2. to pause
- 3. to arrange
- 4. to lay out
- 5. to kowtow
- 6. to stamp (one's foot)
- 7. at once
Example Sentences
1 shown这 顿 饭不咸。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 顿
Michael Crichton (1942-), US techno-thriller writer, author of Jurassic Park
to fling one's arms and stamp one's feet (in anger or despair)
Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947-), US Democratic politician
to feel suddenly
a transition (stop and change) in spoken sound, music or in brush strokes
murky darkness suddenly opens (idiom); a sudden flash of insight and all is clear
Wharton (name)
Don River
Trenton, capital of New Jersey
Sidon (Lebanon)
Dresden, Germany
Brighton, town in England
to tidy up
Princeton University
Halliburton (US construction company)
Appleton (name)
fatigued
Washington D.C. (US federal capital)
Wellington (name)
Bolton (name)
Lipton (name)
to beat one's chest and stamp one's feet (idiom)
Donetsk, city in Ukraine
Everton (town in northwest England)
Arlington National Cemetery in Washington DC, USA
Newtonian mechanics
suddenly
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), British mathematician and physicist
Dresden, capital of Saxony 薩克森州|萨克森州[sà kè sēn zhōu], Germany
Houston
Donetsk region of W. Ukraine
Haydn (name)
Wimbledon
Preston, city in England
Paris Hilton
Bretton woods conference in 1944 of allied powers, regulating world exchange rates and setting up IMF and world bank
Washington Post (newspaper)
Mountbatten (name, Anglicization of German Battenberg)
Fredericton, capital of New Brunswick, Canada
kowtow
see 頓挫抑揚|顿挫抑扬[dùn cuò yì yáng]
George Washington (1732-1799), first US president
Huntington's disease
Bridgetown, capital of Barbados
Washington (name)
Edmonton, capital of Alberta, Canada
Newton (name)
to find a place for
Carleton
Milton (name)
Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar
University of Leiden
Hilton (hotel chain)
newton meter, unit of torque (symbol: N⋅m)
Macedonia
Boston, capital of Massachusetts
(computing) slow
Washington Times (newspaper)
Manhattan island
to halt
Charleston
Edmonton, capital of Alberta, Canada
Stanton (name)
Clinton (name)
a flash of realization
Eton public school (English elite school)
to eat one's fill
Republic of Macedonia (former Yugoslav republic)
to pause
Aston Martin
Boston Red Sox (baseball) team
Princeton, New Jersey
Bill Clinton (1946-), US Democratic politician, president 1993-2001
Chinese back-sloping comma 、 (punct. used to separate items in a list)
Wellington, capital of New Zealand
Winston (name)
stamp (one's feet)
Johnston (name)
Boston University
Washington, US State
Dayton (city in Ohio)
Armageddon (in Revelation 16:16)
Johnston, Johnson, Johnstone etc, name
Staten Island, borough of New York City
immediately
Lexington, Massachusetts
Leiden (the Netherlands)
Dalton (name)
Hamilton (name)
inactive
(literary) fatigued
Lhasa Shoton festival or yogurt banquet, from first of July of Tibetan calendar
Huffington Post (US online news aggregator)
Houston, Texas
Whitney Houston (1963-2012), American singer and actress
Huntington's disease
travel-worn
travel-worn
(name) Clayton or Crichton
Wimbledon
Manhattan borough of New York City
cadence
to place in safe keeping
Rodan (Japanese ラドン Radon), Japanese movie monster