Definitions for stop
stɒpstop

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 3 votes

1. stop, haltnoun

   the event of something ending

   "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"

2. stop, stoppagenoun

   the act of stopping something

   "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"

3. stop, stopover, layovernoun

   a brief stay in the course of a journey

   "they made a stopover to visit their friends"

4. 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"

5. stopnoun

   a spot where something halts or pauses

   "his next stop is Atlanta"

6. 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"

7. 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"

8. 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"

9. diaphragm, stopnoun

   a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens

   "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"

10. catch, stopnoun

    a restraint that checks the motion of something

    "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"

11. 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"

12. stop, haltverb

    come to a halt, stop moving

    "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"

13. discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay offverb

    put an end to a state or an activity

    "Quit teasing your little brother"

14. stop, halt, block, kiboshverb

    stop from happening or developing

    "Block his election"; "Halt the process"

15. stop, stop oververb

    interrupt a trip

    "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"

16. stopverb

    cause to stop

    "stop a car"; "stop the thief"

17. break, break off, discontinue, stopverb

    prevent completion

    "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"

18. 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"

19. intercept, stopverb

    seize on its way

    "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"

20. 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"

21. barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, barverb

    render unsuitable for passage

    "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"

22. hold on, stopverb

    stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments

    "Hold on a moment!"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Stopnoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. Cessation of progressive motion.

   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.

   2. Hindrance of progress; obstruction.

   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.

   3. Hindrance of action.

   ’Tis a great step towards the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them, and shut them up in silence. John Locke.

   4. Cessation of action.

   Look to you to the guard to-night:
   Let’s teach ourselves that honourable stop,
   Not to outsport discretion. William Shakespeare.

   5. Interruption.

   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.

   6. Prohibition of sale.

   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.

   7. That which obstructs; obstacle; impediment.

   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.

   8. Instrument by which the sounds of wind musick are regulated.

   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.

   9. Regulation of musical chords by the fingers.

   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.

   10. The act of applying the stops in musick.

   Th’ organ-sound a time survives the stop,
   Before it doth the dying note give up. Samuel Daniel, Civil War.

   11. A point in writing, by which sentences are distinguished.

   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.

2. To STOPverb

   Etymology: estouper, Fr. stoppare, Ital. stoppen, Dutch.

   1. To hinder from progressive motion.

   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.

   2. To hinder from any change of state, whether to better or worse.3. To hinder from action.

   As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting. 2 Cor. xi. 10.

   4. To put an end to the motion or action of any thing.

   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.

   5. To suppress.

   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.

   6. To regulate musical strings with the fingers.

   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.

   7. To close any aperture.

   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.

   8. To obstruct; to encumber.

   Mountains of ice that stop th’ imagin’d way. John Milton.

3. 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.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Stop

   "Can't Stop Playing (Makes Me High)" is a single by dance producers Dr. Kucho! and Gregor Salto, featuring vocals from Ane Brun. It was released on 12 April 2015 for digital download in the United Kingdom. Oliver Heldens remix peaked at number 4 on the UK Singles Chart.

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1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Stopverb

   to close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound

2. Stopverb

   to obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Stopverb

   to point, as a composition; to punctuate

7. Stopverb

   to make fast; to stopper

8. Stopverb

   to cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop

9. Stopverb

   to cease from any motion, or course of action

10. Stopverb

    to spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend

11. Stopnoun

    the act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction

12. Stopnoun

    that which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. Stopnoun

    the diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses

19. 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

20. 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

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1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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 TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

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1. 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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1. stop

   The stop symbol -- In this Symbols.com article you will learn about the meaning of the stop symbol and its characteristic.

2. stop

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3. STOP

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Matched Categories

1. • Act
   • Catch
   • Ending
   • Knob
   • Mechanical Device
   • Music
   • Obstruent
   • Punctuation Mark
   • Stay
   • Topographic Point

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'stop' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #863

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'stop' in Written Corpus Frequency: #411

3. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'stop' in Nouns Frequency: #1615

4. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'stop' in Verbs Frequency: #86

Anagrams for stop »

1. post

2. pots

3. spot

4. tops

How to pronounce stop?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of stop in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of stop in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of stop in a Sentence

1. Michael Seril:

   Working out doesn't stop when you get older, staying in shape is a lifelong commitment and retaining muscle mass as you age will keep you alive a lot longer than people who skip the gym as they age.

2. Joe Rogan:

   Stop. Pause. He cant be president, listen, we cant play any games here folks. This is a really old man who cant talk.

3. Christen Kuikoua:

   Stop it, For In the name of body image, abortions justified, Innocent lives extinguished, under the banner of women's rights.

4. Dawn Laguens:

   Anti-abortion extremists are willing to do anything to stop women from accessing the reproductive health care they are seeking, extremists have broken laws, harassed our doctors and patients, produced hack videos, and now are claiming to have committed a gross invasion of privacy -- one that, if true, could potentially put our staff members at risk.

5. Shelley Pasnik:

   Parenting no longer involves relying on the finite-ness imposed by media. Instead, it's up to the parents and household rules to make it finite and help kids understand when to stop.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=stop
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=stop
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stop
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=stop
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=stop
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=stop