stop
IPA: stˈɑp
noun
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- (engineering) 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.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (music) 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.
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
- (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
- (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
verb
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) Not to continue.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- (causative, transitive, chiefly UK) To end someone else's activity.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (obsolete) To punctuate.
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
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Examples of "stop" in Sentences
- We're stopping at the end of the block.
- The judge stopped litigation by the end of 2007.
- The boorish behavior needs to stop on both ends.
- In the foreground a wayfarer has stopped to rest.
- The Avengers manage to stop his rampage in the end.
- Securely attached to the other end of the shaft is a stop.
- The rest of the tuning stop is tuned to itself, in octaves.
- In the rest of the articles, no one was motivated to stop by.
- The athlete then runs to the end of the tether and is forcefully stopped.
- At the downstream end of the conveyor there is a stop for halting the products.
- STOP 1. The phrase stop sign, also Made in USA, is first attested only some years later, in 1934. “stop,” OED.
- And oh yeah..stop eating food from the drive thru and for God sake stop feeding it to your children. and please don't give them candy for snack time at school.
- After a * fastfood sandwich* lunch, which was simple felafel or chicken wrap, we had a quick pit stop * commission stop* at a traditional papyrus store/factory.
- The first thing then to be done to put a stop to this frightful waste of human life every year is to _stop the circulation of the bacillus from one person to another_.
- Whenever they stop with the poor me ’stop ABUSING us internets!’ attitude and learn how to engage the online community in constructive ways it might just be a brand new day for comics.
- And oftentimes, we hear the term stop and frisk, and over the last few years, the terms have just become as if this is one action that occurs every time a police officer engages a citizen.
- PRKP-1010 \ "Failed to stop all the listeners associated with instance {0} on node {1} \" Cause: Either the listener name associated with an instance could not be determined, or \ "lsnrctl stop\" failed for a listener.
- PRKP-1009 \ "Failed to stop all the listeners associated with all the instances of cluster database \" Cause: Either the listener name associated with an instance could not be determined, or \ "lsnrctl stop\" failed for a listener.
- Kentucky should at one grand coup _stop spring shooting and all sale of wild game, accord long close seasons to all species that are verging on extinction, protect doves, establish moderate bag limits and stop the use of machine guns_.