What does STOP mean?
Definitions for STOP
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word STOP.
Princeton's WordNet
stop, haltnoun
the event of something ending
"it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
stop, stoppagenoun
the act of stopping something
"the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
stop, stopover, layovernoun
a brief stay in the course of a journey
"they made a stopover to visit their friends"
arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppagenoun
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"
stopnoun
a spot where something halts or pauses
"his next stop is Atlanta"
stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosivenoun
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
"his stop consonants are too aspirated"
period, point, full stop, stop, full pointnoun
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"
stopnoun
(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"
diaphragm, stopnoun
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
"the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"
catch, stopnoun
a restraint that checks the motion of something
"he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppageverb
an obstruction in a pipe or tube
"we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
stop, haltverb
come to a halt, stop moving
"the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay offverb
put an end to a state or an activity
"Quit teasing your little brother"
stop, halt, block, kiboshverb
stop from happening or developing
"Block his election"; "Halt the process"
stop, stop oververb
interrupt a trip
"we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"
stopverb
cause to stop
"stop a car"; "stop the thief"
break, break off, discontinue, stopverb
prevent completion
"stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"
check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold backverb
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"
intercept, stopverb
seize on its way
"The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"
end, stop, finish, terminate, ceaseverb
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"
barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, barverb
render unsuitable for passage
"block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
hold on, stopverb
stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
"Hold on a moment!"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Stopnoun
Etymology: from the verb.
Thought’s the slave of time, and life time’s fool;
And time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop. William Shakespeare.The marigold, whose courtier’s face
Ecchoes the sun, and doth unlace
Her at his rise, at his full stop
Packs and shuts up her gawdy shop,
Mistakes her cue, and doth display. John Cleveland.A lion, ranging for his prey, made a stop on a sudden at a hideous yelling noise, which startled him. Roger L'Estrange.
In weak and tender minds we little know what misery this strict opinion would breed, besides the stops it would make in the whole course of all mens lives and actions. Richard Hooker.
These gates are not sufficient for the communication between the walled city and its suburbs, as daily appears by the stops and embarrasses of coaches near both these gates. John Graunt.
My praise the Fabii claim,
And thou great hero, greatest of thy name,
Ordain’d in war to save the sinking state,
And, by delays, to put a stop to fate. John Dryden, Æn.Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy, and therefore have been rejected. Isaac Newton, Opt.
Brokers hinder trade, by making the circuit which the money goes larger, and in that circuit more stops, so that the returns must necessarily be slower and scantier. John Locke.
Female zeal, though proceeding from so good a principle, if we may believe the French historians, often put a stop to the proceedings of their kings, which might have ended in a reformation. Joseph Addison, Freeholder.
’Tis a great step towards the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them, and shut them up in silence. John Locke.
Look to you to the guard to-night:
Let’s teach ourselves that honourable stop,
Not to outsport discretion. William Shakespeare.Thou art full of love and honesty,
And weigh’st thy words before thou giv’st them breath;
Therefore these stops of thine fright me the more. William Shakespeare.If they should open a war, they foresee the consumption France must fall into by the stop of their wine and salts, wholly taken off by our two nations. William Temple.
The proud Duessa, full of wrathful spight
And fierce disdain to be affronted so,
Inforc’d her purple beast with all her might,
That stop out of the way to overthrow. Fairy Queen.On indeed they went: but O! not far;
A fatal stop travers’d their headlong course. Daniel.Blessed be that God who cast rubs, stops, and hindrances in my way, when I was attempting the commission of such a sin. Robert South, Sermons.
So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent, and check this overflowing of ungodliness. John Rogers.
You would play upon me, you would seem to know my stops; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery. William Shakespeare.
Blest are those,
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingl’d,
That they are not a pipe for fortune’s finger,
To sound what stop she please. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.The harp
Had work, and rested not; the solemn pipe,
And dulcimer, all organs of sweet stop. John Milton, Par. Lost.The sound
Of instruments, that made melodious chime,
Was heard of harp and organ; and who mov’d
Their stops, and chords, was seen; his volant touch
Instinct through all proportions, low and high,
Fled, and pursu’d transverse the resonant fugue. John Milton.A variety of strings may be observed on their harps, and of stops on their tibiæ; which shews the little foundation that such writers have gone upon, who, from a short passage in a classick author, have determined the precise shape of the ancient musical instruments, with the exact number of their pipes, strings, and stops. Joseph Addison, on Italy.
The further a string is strained, the less superstraining goeth to a note; for it requireth good winding of a string before it will make any note at all: and in the stops of lutes, the higher they go, the less distance is between the frets. Francis Bacon.
Th’ organ-sound a time survives the stop,
Before it doth the dying note give up. Samuel Daniel, Civil War.Even the iron-pointed pen,
That notes the tragick dooms of men,
Wet with tears still’d from the eyes
Of the flinty destinies,
Would have learn’d a softer style,
And have been asham’d to spoil
His life’s sweet story by the haste
Of a cruel stop ill-plac’d. Richard Crashaw.To STOPverb
Etymology: estouper, Fr. stoppare, Ital. stoppen, Dutch.
From the oracle
They will bring all; whose spiritual counsel had
Shall stop or spur me. William Shakespeare.Can any dresses find a way
To stop th’ approaches of decay,
And mend a ruin’d face? Dorset.As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting. 2 Cor. xi. 10.
Friend, ’tis the duke’s pleasure,
Whose disposition, all the world well knows,
Will not be rubb’d nor stopp’d. William Shakespeare, King Lear.Almon falls, pierc’d with an arrow from the distant war:
Fix’d in his throat the flying weapon stood,
And stopp’d his breath, and drank his vital blood. Dryden.Every bold sinner, when about to engage in the commission of any known sin, should arrest his confidence, and stop the execution of his purpose with this question: Do I believe that God has denounced death to such a practice, or do I not? South.
He, on occasion of stopping my play, did me a good office at court, by representing it as long ago designed. Dryden.
In instruments of strings, if you stop a string high, whereby it hath less scope to tremble, the sound is more treble, but yet more dead. Francis Bacon, Natural History.
Smite every fenced city, stop all wells of water, and mar land with stones. 2 Kings iii. 19.
They pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. Zech. vii. 11.
A hawk’s bell, the holes stopped up, hang by a thread within a bottle-glass, and stop the glass close with wax. Francis Bacon.
His majesty stopped a leak that did much harm. Francis Bacon.
Stoppings and suffocations are dangerous in the body. Francis Bacon.
They first raised an army with this design, to stop my mouth or force my consent. Charles I .
Celsus gives a precept about bleeding, that when the blood is good, which is to be judged by the colour, that immediately the vein should be stopped. Arbuthnot.
Mountains of ice that stop th’ imagin’d way. John Milton.
To Stopverb
To cease to go forward.
Some strange commotion
Is in his brain: he bites his lip, and starts;
Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground,
Then lays his finger on his temple; strait
Springs out into fast gait, then stops again. William Shakespeare, H. VIII.When men pursue their thoughts of space, they stop at the confines of body, as if space were there at an end. John Locke.
If the rude throng pour on with furious pace,
And hap to break thee from a friend’s embrace,
Stop short, nor struggle through. John Gay.
Wikipedia
ChatGPT
stop
A stop is a point or place where something ceases or ends, or an action taken to halt or terminate a particular process or activity. It can also refer to a device or mechanism used to control or restrain the movement or operation of something.
Webster Dictionary
Stopverb
to close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound
Stopverb
to obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage
Stopverb
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
Stopverb
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
Stopverb
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
Stopverb
to point, as a composition; to punctuate
Stopverb
to make fast; to stopper
Stopverb
to cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop
Stopverb
to cease from any motion, or course of action
Stopverb
to spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend
Stopnoun
the act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction
Stopnoun
that which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction
Stopnoun
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
Stopnoun
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
Stopnoun
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
Stopnoun
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
Stopnoun
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
Stopnoun
the diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses
Stopnoun
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
Stopnoun
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
Wikidata
Stop
"Stop" is a song by the British pop group Spice Girls. It was written by the group members with Paul Wilson and Andy Watkins—the songwriters and production duo known as Absolute—at the same time as the group was filming scenes for their movie Spice World. "Stop" was produced by Wilson and Watkins for the group's second album Spiceworld, which was released in November 1997. "Stop" is an dance-pop song with influences of Motown's blue-eyed soul, and features instrumentation from a guitar and a brass. The music video, directed by James Brown and filmed in Ireland, features the group in a traditional British 1950s working class street and showed them playing with young girls in various children's games. The song received mostly positive reviews from music critics, with many of them complimenting the Motown influences and production. "Stop" was performed by the group in a number of live appearances in Europe and North America including their three tours. Released as the album's third single in March 1998, it peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, ending the Spice Girls' streak of consecutive number-one singles in the United Kingdom at six. It was moderately successful internationally, peaking inside the top twenty on the majority of the charts that it entered. In the United States, "Stop" peaked at number sixteen on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming the group's sixth consecutive top twenty on the chart. It was the group's last single that was released before Geri Halliwell's departure in May 1998 though it was not the last single to include her vocals.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Stop
stop, v.t. to stuff or close up: to obstruct: to render impassable: to hinder from further motion, progress, effect, or change: to restrain, repress, suppress, suspend: to intercept: to apply musical stops to: to regulate the sounds of a stringed instrument by shortening the strings with the fingers: (naut.) to make fast.—v.i. to cease going forward: to cease from any motion or action, to stay, tarry: to leave off: to be at an end: to ward off a blow:—pr.p. stop′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. stopped.—n. act of stopping: state of being stopped: hinderance: obstacle: interruption: (mus.) one of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced: a mark used in punctuation: an alphabetic sound involving a complete closure of the mouth-organs: a wooden batten on a door or window-frame against which it closes: a stop-thrust in fencing.—ns. Stop′-cock, a short pipe in a cask, &c., opened and stopped by turning a cock or key; Stop′-gap, that which fills a gap or supplies a deficiency, esp. an expedient of emergency; Stop′-mō′tion, a mechanical arrangement for producing an automatic stop in machinery, as for shutting off steam, &c.; Stop′page, act of stopping: state of being stopped: an obstruction; Stop′per, one who stops: that which closes a vent or hole, as the cork or glass mouthpiece for a bottle: (naut.) a short rope for making something fast.—v.t. to close or secure with a stopper.—ns. Stop′ping, that which fills up, material for filling up cracks, &c., filling material for teeth: Stop′ping-out, the practice in etching of covering certain parts with a composition impervious to acid, to keep the acid off them while allowing it to remain on the other parts to mark them more; Stop′-watch, a watch whose hands can be stopped to allow of time that has elapsed being calculated more exactly, used in timing a race, &c. [M. E. stoppen—O. Fr. estouper (Ice. stoppa, Ger. stopfen, to stuff); all from L. stupa, the coarse part of flax, tow.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
stop
A small projection on the outside of the cheeks of a lower mast, at the upper parts of the hounds. Also, the word given by him who holds the glass in heaving the log, to check the line and determine how fast she is going.--To stop. To tie up with small stuff; as a sail is stopped when sending it aloft to prevent the wind from blowing it away; a flag is stopped to make a wheft, &c.
Editors Contribution
stopverb
Saint street stone observation post. 1.) Come to an end; cease to happen.
The 10 commandments were created to make us stop and notice our mistakes so that we may lead to correct them.
Etymology: Pause
Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on February 23, 2024
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Rank popularity for the word 'STOP' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #863
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Rank popularity for the word 'STOP' in Written Corpus Frequency: #411
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Rank popularity for the word 'STOP' in Nouns Frequency: #1615
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Rank popularity for the word 'STOP' in Verbs Frequency: #86
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of STOP in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of STOP in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of STOP in a Sentence
They don't have symptoms, but they might have it and might be able to pass it on, that's what younger readers need to understand : They need to take part in the global response to stop the spread. That means not going anywhere, not getting into contact with anybody, not seeing anybody.
If political leaders at the state and local level better understood the magnitude of the risk and the fact that they were essentially doing things that didn't necessarily comply with the federal ban, my suspicion is that more action would be taken to stop this stuff, i don't think anyone is trying to do anything bad here. I don't think anyone is being nefarious.
If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third.
The microphone was often turned off when I started to speak about the swimming pool, and then of course you stop, there's no point, but now that I'm 100, I'm in a different position. Now I have the chance to open my mouth and say something.
The Trump administration chose what it called the maximum pressure campaign on Iran. The result was that this strategy only increased the risk and the threat, this has to stop because Iran and - I say this clearly - is in the process of acquiring nuclear (weapons) capacity.
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From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- stop, halte, punt, stilhouAfrikaans
- مَوْقِف, وَقْفَة, أَوْقَفَ, تَوَقَّفَ, وَقَفَ, قفArabic
- dayanacaqAzerbaijani
- прыпы́нак, спыня́цца, спыні́ццаBelarusian
- спи́рка, спи́рам, спра, прекратя́вамBulgarian
- punt, parada, oclusiva, aturar, deixar, pararCatalan, Valencian
- zastávka, ukončit, zůstat, zastavit, pobývat, skončitCzech
- stoppested, stoppe, standseDanish
- Stopper, Busstopp, Stoppball, Haltestelle, Punkt, Stopp, stoppen, aufhören, stehen bleiben, beenden, stopfen, anhalten, haltGerman
- στάση, στοπ, παύω, σταματώ, τελειώνωGreek
- haltejoEsperanto
- parada, paradero, parar, dejar, deténgaseSpanish
- peatusEstonian
- ایستگاه, ماندن, نگه داشتن, ایستادن, درنگ كردن, بستن, بازداشتن, بازایستادنPersian
- pysäytyslyönti, piste, seisake, pysäkki, stoppari, keskeytys, lopettaa, loppua, pysähtyä, pysäyttääFinnish
- arrêt, occlusive, ammorti, arrêter, s'arrêter, cesser, arrêtezFrench
- stûkjeWestern Frisian
- stad, stopIrish
- casg, crìochnaich, fan, leig seachad, cuir crìoch air, stadScottish Gaelic
- עָצַר, גמר, נגמר, סתםHebrew
- ठहरना, रुकना, रोकनाHindi
- megálló, megállít, abbamarad, megszűnik, megáll, abbahagyHungarian
- դադար, կանգառ, վերջանալ, դադարել, կանգնել, կանգ առնելArmenian
- hentiIndonesian
- punto, pulsante di arresto, fermata, registro, occlusiva, fermare, smettere, fermarsi, far smettere, stopItalian
- 停留所, バス停, 止める, 止まる, 留まる, 停止Japanese
- გაჩერება, დადგომაGeorgian
- 정류장, 구치다, 정지하다, 멈추다, 서다, 그치다, 그만Korean
- sekinîn, sekinandin, rawestandin, rawestînKurdish
- inhibeo, absisto, consistere, detineo, quiesco, desinere, sistere, desistere, cesso, cohibeo, subsistoLatin
- stotelėLithuanian
- punkts, pietura, apstātiesLatvian
- taunga, komutu, tiriwā, purupuru, tūMāori
- постојка, застанува, застанеMacedonian
- perhentian, hentiMalay
- ရပ်Burmese
- holdeplassNorwegian
- komma, occlusief, pauze, halte, puntkomma, register, stopper, stop, dubbele punt, punt, langsgaan, stoppen, blijven, deppen, stilstaan, aanhouden, verblijven, beëindigen, afbreken, ophouden, halthoudenDutch
- przystanek, zatrzymać się, zatrzymaćPolish
- oclusiva, parada, interrupção, ponto final, ponto, plosiva, obstáculo, tapar, parar, deixar, passar, tamparPortuguese
- sayayQuechua
- minge stopată, punct, stop, oclusivă, opri, terminaRomanian
- остано́в, остано́вка, кла́пан, взрывно́й согла́сный, знак препина́ния, сто́пор, ограничи́тель, останови́ться, заткну́ть, переста́ть, прекрати́ть, останови́ть, прекрати́ться, остана́вливаться, прекраща́ть, остана́вливать, прекраща́ться, затыка́ть, перестава́ть, остановиться, стоять, стопRussian
- станица, stanica, stajalište, стајалиште, zaustavljati, заустављати, зауставити, zaustavitiSerbo-Croatian
- zastávka, zastaviť, prerušiť, prestaťSlovak
- postaja, ustaviti, ustavljatiSlovene
- stopp, hållplats, punkt, stoppboll, klusil, avbryta, stanna, sluta, upphöra, stoppa, haltSwedish
- ఉండు, ఆగు, ఆపుTelugu
- หยุด, ป้ายรถเมล์Thai
- tigilTagalog
- durak, mola, durmak, durdurmak, kesmek, durTurkish
- зупи́нка, зупини́тися, зупиня́тисяUkrainian
- رکناUrdu
- bến xe, dừng lạiVietnamese
- aresterWalloon
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