stop

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To cease moving.

   • I stopped at the traffic lights.
2. 2

   Not to continue.

   • The riots stopped when police moved in.
   • Soon the rain will stop.
3. 3

   To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.

   • The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.
   • This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him.
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   1. 4

      To cease

      To cease; to no longer continue.

      • One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.
   2. 5

      To cause (something) to come to an end.

      • The referees stopped the fight.
   3. 6

      To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something.

      • Don't let me stop you working.
      • When they have finished the milk they must be patted and squeezed to stop them exploding.
   4. 7

      To close or block an opening.

      • He stopped the wound with gauze.
      • Rotten leaves and branches have stopped the gutter.
      • I've had the cracks in the wall stopped with mortar by the builders.
   5. 8

      To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.

      • To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.
   6. 9

      To stay

      To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.

      • to stop with a friend
      • He stopped for two weeks at the inn.
      • He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.
   7. 10

      To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the…

      To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.

   8. 11

      To punctuate.

      • [Francesco] Guicciardini, if his sentences were properly stopt, would be found in general both full and concise, whatever may be asserted to the contrary by the fastidious and inattentive.
   9. 12

      To make fast

      To make fast; to stopper.

   10. 13

       To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.

       • th-stopping
   11. 14

       To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.

       • It will be noted that the specialist would have refused to stop the stock for broker X if he (the specialist) had only one order to sell at 85.
   12. 15

       To take out of service for repair, servicing or examination.

       • The mechanical foreman is also present, and he gives a progress report of engines under repair and those stopped for their periodical routine examination.
   13. 16

       To quit partaking in the use of or participation in (something).

       • She stopped heroin last year.
       • He stopped football to focus on acting.
   14. 17

       A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and…

       A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.

       • They agreed to meet at the bus stop.
   15. 18

       An action of stopping

       An action of stopping; interruption of travel.

       • That stop was not planned.
       • It is […] doubtful […] whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection.
       • Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy.
   16. 19

       That which stops, impedes, or obstructs

       That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.

       • A fatal stop trauerst their headlong course
       • So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.
   17. 20

       A device intended to block the path of a moving object

       • door stop
   18. 21

       A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue,…

       A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.

   19. 22

       A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses,…

       A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.

   20. 23

       A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.

       • The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.
   21. 24

       One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed…

       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.

   22. 25

       A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce…

       A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.

   23. 26

       A save

       A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal

       • The Foxes were indebted to two crucial saves from keeper Kasper Schmeichel, who turned former Leicester defender Ben Chilwell's header on to a post then produced an even better stop to turn Mason Mount's powerful shot wide.
   24. 27

       The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.

       • The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.
   25. 28

       A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.

       • The American Rabbit Breeders Association holds that the stops of a Dutch rabbit should be white from the toes to one third of the way along the foot.
   26. 29

       A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.

   27. 30

       A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.

   28. 31

       An f-stop.

   29. 32

       The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of…

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

   30. 33

       A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.

   31. 34

       Ellipsis of full stop.

   32. 35

       Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.

   33. 36

       A small well-bucket

       A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.

   34. 37

       The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

       • For neutralino masses below approximately 700 GeV, gluino masses of less than 1.78 TeV and 1.76 TeV are excluded at the 95% CL in simplified models of the pair production of gluinos decaying via sbottom and stop, respectively.

The neighborhood

• synonymdesist
• synonymhalt
• synonymcease
• synonymdiscontinue
• synonymterminate
• synonymfreeze
• synonymcancel
• synonymhang around
• synonymlinger
• synonymloiter
• synonympause
• synonymstop over
• antonymcontinueantonym(s) of “to cease moving”
• antonymgoantonym(s) of “to cease moving”
• antonymmoveantonym(s) of “to cease moving”
• antonymproceedantonym(s) of “to cease moving”
• antonymaccelerate
• antonymset in motion
• neighbordecelerate
• neighborforstop
• neighborstop by
• neighborstop cock
• neighborstop down
• neighborstop in
• neighborstop off
• neighborstop out
• neighborstop over
• neighborstop up
• neighborunstop
• neighborheave to