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Quick definitions from WordNet (stop)
▸ noun: a brief stay in the course of a journey ("They made a stopover to visit their friends")
▸ noun: the act of stopping something ("The third baseman made some remarkable stops")
▸ noun: (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")
▸ noun: the event of something ending ("It came to a stop at the bottom of the hill")
▸ noun: a spot where something halts or pauses ("His next stop is Atlanta")
▸ noun: a restraint that checks the motion of something ("He used a book as a stop to hold the door open")
▸ noun: a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
▸ noun: a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it ("His stop consonants are too aspirated")
▸ noun: 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")
▸ noun: an obstruction in a pipe or tube
▸ noun: the state of inactivity following an interruption ("He spent the entire stop in his seat")
▸ verb: stop from happening or developing
▸ verb: cause to stop ("Stop a car")
▸ verb: come to a halt, stop moving ("The car stopped")
▸ verb: interrupt a trip ("We stopped at Aunt Mary's house")
▸ verb: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical ("Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other")
▸ verb: put an end to a state or an activity
▸ verb: stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
▸ verb: seize on its way
▸ verb: prevent completion ("Stop the project")
▸ verb: hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
▸ verb: render unsuitable for passage ("Stop the busy road")
▸ Also see stops
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▸ Idioms related to stop (New!)
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▸ Invented words related to stop
▸ noun: a brief stay in the course of a journey ("They made a stopover to visit their friends")
▸ noun: the act of stopping something ("The third baseman made some remarkable stops")
▸ noun: (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")
▸ noun: the event of something ending ("It came to a stop at the bottom of the hill")
▸ noun: a spot where something halts or pauses ("His next stop is Atlanta")
▸ noun: a restraint that checks the motion of something ("He used a book as a stop to hold the door open")
▸ noun: a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
▸ noun: a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it ("His stop consonants are too aspirated")
▸ noun: 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")
▸ noun: an obstruction in a pipe or tube
▸ noun: the state of inactivity following an interruption ("He spent the entire stop in his seat")
▸ verb: stop from happening or developing
▸ verb: cause to stop ("Stop a car")
▸ verb: come to a halt, stop moving ("The car stopped")
▸ verb: interrupt a trip ("We stopped at Aunt Mary's house")
▸ verb: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical ("Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other")
▸ verb: put an end to a state or an activity
▸ verb: stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
▸ verb: seize on its way
▸ verb: prevent completion ("Stop the project")
▸ verb: hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
▸ verb: render unsuitable for passage ("Stop the busy road")
▸ Also see stops
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to stop
▸ Usage examples for stop
▸ Idioms related to stop (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing stop
▸ Words that often appear near stop
▸ Rhymes of stop
▸ Invented words related to stop