stop

/stˈɑp/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

verb

come to a halt, stop moving
“the car stopped”
put an end to a state or an activity
“Quit teasing your little brother”
stop from happening or developing
“Block his election”
interrupt a trip
“we stopped at Aunt Mary's house”
cause to stop
“stop a car”
prevent completion
“stop the project”
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
“Arrest the downward trend”
seize on its way
“The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace”
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
“the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed”
render unsuitable for passage
“block the way”
stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
“Hold on a moment!”

noun

the event of something ending
“it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill”
the act of stopping something
“the third baseman made some remarkable stops”
a brief stay in the course of a journey
“they made a stopover to visit their friends”
the state of inactivity following an interruption
“the negotiations were in arrest”
a spot where something halts or pauses
“his next stop is Atlanta”
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
“his stop consonants are too aspirated”
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”
(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”
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
“the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically”
a restraint that checks the motion of something
“he used a book as a stop to hold the door open”
an obstruction in a pipe or tube
“we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe”

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