stop

1. 1

   To cease moving.intransitive

   • I stopped at the traffic lights.
2. 2

   Not to continue.intransitive

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

   To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.transitive

   • 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. 4

   To cease; to no longer continue.transitive

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

   To cause (something) to come to an end.transitive

   • The referees stopped the fight.
6. 6

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

   • Don't let me stop you working.
7. 7

   To close or block an opening.transitive

   • He stopped the wound with gauze.
   • Rotten leaves and branches have stopped the gutter.
8. 8

   To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.intransitiveoftentransitive

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

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

   • to stop with a friend
   • He stopped for two weeks at the inn.
10. 10

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

syn. desist · halt · cease · discontinue · terminate · freeze · cancel · hang around · linger · loiter · pause · stop over

ant. continue · go · move · proceed · accelerate · set in motion

1. 1

   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.
2. 2

   An action of stopping; interruption of travel.

   • That stop was not planned.
3. 3

   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.
4. 4

   A device intended to block the path of a moving object

   • door stop
5. 5

   A device intended to block the path of a moving object; 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. 6

   A device intended to block the path of a moving object; A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.

7. 7

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

8. 8

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

9. 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. 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.

1. 1

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

1. 1

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

1. 1

   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.