Noun
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"Verb
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 negociations"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 Sout 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!"