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Definition of 'Stop'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) stop
to cease from or discontinue:
to stop running.

2.  stop
to cause to cease:
to stop crime.

3.  stop
to interrupt or check.

4.  stop
to cut off, intercept, or withhold:
to stop supplies.

5.  stop
to restrain or prevent:
I couldn't stop him from going.

6.  stop
to prevent from proceeding, acting, or operating:
to stop a car.

7.  stop
to block or close off (often fol. by up):
to stop up a sink.

8.  stop
to fill holes in (a wall, a decayed tooth, etc.).

9.  stop
to close (a container, tube, etc.) with a cork, plug, or the like.

10.  stop
to close the external orifice of (the ears, nose, mouth, etc.).

11.  stop
to check (a stroke, blow, etc.); parry; ward off.

12.  stop
to defeat (an opposing player or team).

13.  stop
to defeat in a boxing match by a knockout or technical knockout.

14.  stop
to notify a bank to refuse payment of (a check) upon presentation.

15.  stop
(in bridge) to have an honor card and a sufficient number of protecting cards to keep an opponent from continuing to win in (a suit).

16.  stop
to close (a fingerhole) in order to produce a particular note from a wind instrument.

17.  stop
to press down (a string of a violin, viola, etc.) in order to alter the pitch of the tone produced.

18.  stop
to produce (a particular note) by so doing.

19. (v.i.) stop
to come to a stand, as in a course or journey; halt.

20.  stop
to cease moving, proceeding, operating, etc.; pause or desist.

21.  stop
to cease; come to an end.

22.  stop
to halt for a stay or visit:
They're stopping at a nice hotel.

23.  stop
to withdraw temporarily from school.

24.  stop
to mask (areas of an etching plate, photographic negative, etc.) to prevent their being etched, printed, etc.

25.  stop
to stop briefly, as overnight, in the course of a journey.

26.  stop
to make a brief visit.

27. (n.) stop
the act of stopping.

28.  stop
a cessation or arrest of movement, activity, or operation; end:
Put a stop to that!

29.  stop
a stay made at a place, as in the course of a journey.

30.  stop
a place where trains or other vehicles halt to take on and discharge passengers:
a bus stop.

31.  stop
a closing or filling up, as of a hole.

32.  stop
a blocking or obstructing, as of a passage or channel.

33.  stop
a plug or other stopper for an opening.

34.  stop
an obstacle, impediment, or hindrance.

35.  stop
a piece or device that serves to check or control movement or action in a mechanism.

36.  stop
an order to refuse payment of a check.

37.  stop
the act of closing a fingerhole or pressing a string of an instrument in order to produce a particular note.

38.  stop
a device, as on an instrument, for accomplishing this.

39.  stop
a graduated set of organ pipes of the same kind giving tones of the same quality.

40.  stop
a knob or handle that controls the sounding of such a set of pipes.

41.  stop
a set of jacks on a harpsichord or reeds in a reed organ functioning like a pipe-organ stop.

42.  stop
a piece of small line used to lash or fasten something, as a furled sail.

43.  stop
a consonant sound made with complete closure at some part of the vocal tract, usu. followed by sudden release of the interrupted air, as in the sounds (p, b, t, d, k, g).

44.  stop
the diaphragm opening of a camera lens, esp. as indicated by an f-number.

45.  stop
any of various marks used as punctuation at the end of a sentence, esp. a period.

46.  stop
the word “stop” printed in the body of a telegram or cablegram to indicate a period.

47.  stop
a depression in the face of certain animals, esp. dogs, marking the division between the forehead and the projecting part of the muzzle.

48.  stop
to use every means available, as to accomplish something.

Etymology: (bef. 1000; ME stoppen (v.), OE -stoppian (in forstoppian to stop up) &indirdesc; VL *stuppāre to plug with oakum, der. of L stuppa coarse hemp < Gk stýppē)

Definition of 'Stop'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) stop, halt
the event of something ending
"it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"

2. (noun) stop, stoppage
the act of stopping something
"the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"

3. (noun) stop, stopover, layover
a brief stay in the course of a journey
"they made a stopover to visit their friends"

4. (noun) arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage
the state of inactivity following an interruption
"the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat"

5. (noun) stop
a spot where something halts or pauses
"his next stop is Atlanta"

6. (noun) stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
"his stop consonants are too aspirated"

7. (noun) period, point, full stop, stop, full point
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
"in England they call a period a stop"

8. (noun) stop
(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
"the organist pulled out all the stops"

9. (noun) diaphragm, stop
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
"the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"

10. (noun) catch, stop
a restraint that checks the motion of something
"he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"

11. (verb) blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage
an obstruction in a pipe or tube
"we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"

12. (verb) stop, halt
come to a halt, stop moving
"the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"

13. (verb) discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off
put an end to a state or an activity
"Quit teasing your little brother"

14. (verb) stop, halt, block, kibosh
stop from happening or developing
"Block his election"; "Halt the process"

15. (verb) stop, stop over
interrupt a trip
"we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"

16. (verb) stop
cause to stop
"stop a car"; "stop the thief"

17. (verb) break, break off, discontinue, stop
prevent completion
"stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"

18. (verb) check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
"Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"

19. (verb) intercept, stop
seize on its way
"The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"

20. (verb) end, stop, finish, terminate, cease
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"

21. (verb) barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar
render unsuitable for passage
"block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"

22. (verb) hold on, stop
stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
"Hold on a moment!"

Definition of 'Stop'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) stop
to finish doing
Stop talking and listen.; I started writing and didn't stop until 3 a.m.

2.  stop
stop it/that
used to tell sb to stop
Stop it, Jamie - you're being annoying.

3.  stop
to prevent
They were stopping people from going into the building.; attempts to stop gun crime

4.  stop
to not move any farther
Stop the car - I want to get out.; Let's stop here and eat lunch.

5.  stop
(of public transportation) to pause on a trip to allow passengers to get on or off
The bus stops in several small towns on the way to Miami.

6.  stop
to not work or make not work anymore
All the clocks in the building had stopped.; Stop the DVD at the scene where they meet.

7. (noun) stop
when you stop somewhere for a short time
We made several stops along the way.

Definition of 'Stop'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Stop
the act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction

2. (noun) Stop
that which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction

3. (noun) Stop
a device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought

4. (noun) Stop
the closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated

5. (noun) Stop
in the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop

6. (noun) Stop
a member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far

7. (noun) Stop
a point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation

8. (noun) Stop
the diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses

9. (noun) Stop
the depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds

10. (noun) Stop
some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed

11. (verb) Stop
to close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound

12. (verb) Stop
to obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage

13. (verb) Stop
to arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood

14. (verb) Stop
to hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity

15. (verb) Stop
to regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part

16. (verb) Stop
to point, as a composition; to punctuate

17. (verb) Stop
to make fast; to stopper

18. (verb) Stop
to cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop

19. (verb) Stop
to cease from any motion, or course of action

20. (verb) Stop
to spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend

Translation of 'Stop'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to (make something) cease moving, or come to rest, a halt etc He stopped the car and got out; This train does not stop at Birmingham; He stopped to look at the map; He signalled with his hand to stop the bus.
Afrikaans: stop	Arabic: يَقِف	Bulgarian: спирам (се)
Brazilian: parar	Czech: zastavit (se)	German: anhalten
Danish: stoppe; standse	Greek: σταματώ	Spanish: impedir, evitar, detener
Estonian: peatama, peatuma	Farsi: متوقف كردن	Finnish: pysäyttää, pysähtyä
French: (s')arrêter	Hebrew: לַעֲצוֹר	Hindi: रोकना, रोक देना
Croatian: zaustaviti, zaustaviti se	Hungarian: megáll(ít)	Indonesian: menghentikan
Icelandic: stöðva(st)	Italian: fermare, fermarsi	Japanese: 止める
Korean: 멈추다	Lithuanian: (su)stoti, (su)stabdyti	Latvian: apstāties; apturēt
Malay: berhenti	Dutch: stoppen	Norwegian: stoppe, stanse
Polish: zatrzymać (się)	Portuguese: parar	Romanian: a (se) opri
Russian: останавливать(ся)	Slovak: zastaviť (sa)	Slovenian: ustaviti
Serbian: zaustaviti	Swedish: stanna	Thai: หยุด
Turkish: dur(dur)mak	Taiwanese: 停止	Ukrainian: зупиняти(ся)
Urdu: آگے بڑھنے سے روک دینا	Vietnamese: dừng , ngừng lại	Chinese: 停止
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