Meaning & Definition of Stop in English

1. The event of something ending

• "It came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"

2. The act of stopping something

• "The third baseman made some remarkable stops"

• "His stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"

3. A brief stay in the course of a journey

• "They made a stopover to visit their friends"

4. The state of inactivity following an interruption

• "The negotiations were in arrest"

• "Held them in check"

• "During the halt he got some lunch"

• "The momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"

• "He spent the entire stop in his seat"

5. A spot where something halts or pauses

• "His next stop is atlanta"

6. A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

• "His stop consonants are too aspirated"

7. 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"

8. (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"

9. A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens

• "The new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"

10. A restraint that checks the motion of something

• "He used a book as a stop to hold the door open"

11. An obstruction in a pipe or tube

• "We had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"

1. Come to a halt, stop moving

• "The car stopped"

• "She stopped in front of a store window"

2. Put an end to a state or an activity

• "Quit teasing your little brother"

3. Stop from happening or developing

• "Block his election"

• "Halt the process"

4. Interrupt a trip

• "We stopped at aunt mary's house"

• "They stopped for three days in florence"

5. Cause to stop

• "Stop a car"

• "Stop the thief"

6. Prevent completion

• "Stop the project"

• "Break off the negotiations"

7. Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy

• Check the expansion or influence of

• "Arrest the downward trend"

• "Check the growth of communism in south east asia"

• "Contain the rebel movement"

• "Turn back the tide of communism"

8. Seize on its way

• "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"

9. Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense

• Either spatial or metaphorical

• "The bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"

• "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"

• "My property ends by the bushes"

• "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"

10. Render unsuitable for passage

• "Block the way"

• "Barricade the streets"

• "Stop the busy road"

11. Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments

• "Hold on a moment!"