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stop

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Noun

  1. ITU & IMO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for full stop / period.

Verb

  1. To cease moving.
    • I stopped at the traffic lights.
  2. Not to continue.
    • The riots stopped when police moved in.
    • Soon the rain will stop.
  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.
  4. To cease; to no longer continue.
    • One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.
  5. To cause (something) to come to an end.
    • The referees stopped the fight.
  6. To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. .mw-parser-output .object-usage-tag{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output .deprecated{color:var(--wikt-palette-grey-lime-8,olivedrab)}[with direct object, along with gerund or direct object, along with from, along with gerund ]
    • Don't let me stop you working.
  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.
  8. To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
    • To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.
  9. 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.
  10. To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
  11. To punctuate.
  12. To make fast; to stopper.
  13. To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
    • th-stopping
  14. To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
  15. To take out of service for repair, servicing or examination.
  16. To quit partaking in the use of or participation in (something).
    • She stopped heroin last year.
    • He stopped football to focus on acting.

Noun

  1. A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
    • Related terms: halt, station.
    • They agreed to meet at the bus stop.
  2. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
    • That stop was not planned.
  3. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
  4. A device intended to block the path of a moving object
    • door stop
  5. 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.
  6. A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
  7. A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
  8. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
  9. A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
    • The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.
  10. 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.
  11. A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
  12. A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal.
  13. The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
    • The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.
  14. 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.
  15. A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
  16. A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
  17. An f-stop.
  18. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
  19. A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
  20. Ellipsis of full stop.
  21. ↑ The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, "stop".

Punctuation mark

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

Noun

  1. A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.

Noun

  1. The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

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