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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stop
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bus stop (=a place where a bus stops for passengers)
▪ She got off at the next bus stop.
a clock stops (=stops working)
▪ My clock had stopped at 6 am so the alarm didn’t work.
a sound stops
▪ The sound stopped suddenly.
a watch stops
▪ Her watch had stopped after getting wet in the sea.
bleeding...stopped
▪ The bleeding had almost stopped.
bus stop
cancel/stop a cheque (=stop a cheque from being paid to someone)
▪ Don't forget to phone the bank and cancel that cheque.
full stop
▪ I don’t have a reason. I just don’t want to go, full stop.
full stop
▪ Put a full stop at the end of the sentence.
glottal stop
it stops raining
▪ Has it stopped raining?
pit stop
rest stop
stop a fight/break up a fight
▪ The police were called in to break up a fight outside a nightclub.
stop a medication (=stop taking a medication)
▪ I stopped the medication when I found out I was pregnant.
stop crying
▪ Eventually, he stopped crying and told me what happened.
stop dead (in your tracks) (=suddenly stop moving completely)
▪ She was so shocked that she stopped dead in her tracks.
Stop dithering
▪ Stop dithering, girl, and get on with it!
stop press
stop the rotBritish English (= stop a bad situation getting worse)
▪ The team has enough good players to stop the rot.
stop/halt a decline (=stop it from continuing)
▪ These measures are intended to halt the decline in fish populations.
stopping distance
stopping train
stop/quit/give up smoking
▪ I gave up smoking nearly ten years ago.
switch off/turn off/stop an engine
▪ Maggie pulled over and switched off the engine.
the rain stops
▪ They went into a cafe and waited for the rain to stop.
the stopping/braking distance (=how far you travel in a car after pressing the brakes)
▪ What’s the stopping distance at 30 miles an hour?
truck stop
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
car
▪ A little short of four Winds he stopped the car and they shared the remains of the picnic.
▪ And Darlington council plan to put tree stumps around the area to stop cars getting through.
▪ We stopped the car and got out.
▪ I stopped the car in the entrance to the farm and would the window down an inch or two.
▪ During the drive home, we stop the car on the side of the highway, climb out and stare upward.
▪ When it is finished, people will stop their cars to gawp.
▪ He stopped the car and rubbed his eyes.
heart
▪ Then we saw the church and my heart nearly stopped.
▪ A mile away, they no longer can be eagles, and the heart stops.
▪ When she saw Andrew it seemed to her as if her heart had stopped beating.
▪ They found her on the floor with a cracked pelvis and a heart that had almost stopped.
▪ I can't see, but I must feel, or my heart will stop, and my brain will burst!
▪ Illness related to his heart and immune system stopped the resurgent banker in his tracks.
track
▪ The sound began before our search was completed and it stopped me in my tracks, leaving Malc to continue alone.
▪ I stopped dead in my tracks, unsure of what to do next.
▪ A dreadful thought struck Jean, and she stopped in her tracks, right in the middle of the pavement.
▪ People stop in their tracks and stare.
▪ Several times I was stopped in my tracks by the sight of something I could not identify.
▪ Petey stopped dead in his tracks at the question.
▪ It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry.
▪ It literally stopped me in my tracks.
■ VERB
try
▪ I try and stop myself, but I just start crying.
▪ They had thrown bottles at the windscreen and tried to stop him.
▪ I tried to stop, but I couldn't do it.
▪ Both have too enthusiastically encouraged this trend, and too halfheartedly tried to stop it.
▪ He turns back and tries to stop her, but fails.
▪ He was ready to slide off the bed again and try to stop me.
▪ We have been trying to stop the deteriorating effects of ageing on our skin since the times of the pharaohs.
▪ They glance at her without interest, they do not try to stop her.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
make a pit stop
start/stop the clock
▪ The clock is stopped when a player runs out of bounds with the ball.
▪ If you are bled totally dry and white, they will simply stop the clock.
▪ Some expend tremendous energy desperately trying to stop the clock.
▪ You start the clock, paint the glue, fit the pieces, block the cramps.
stop short
▪ At the crest of the hill, she stopped short as she read a warning sign next to the trail.
▪ Both stop short of demanding censorship, though Mary Whitehouse is characteristically less tentative.
▪ Even then I stopped short of making a complaint.
▪ He believed in a kind of progressive development of forms, but like Forbes stopped short of an actual evolutionary theory.
▪ He reads a few lines and stops short.
▪ He stopped short of making recommendations about weapons programs in his 90-minute meeting at the White House.
▪ It goes without saying that all this stops short at the people, who have been abandoned to the authorities' exploitation.
▪ The door opened abruptly, and over Roman's shoulder Claudia saw Dana stop short in confusion.
▪ Wisely, perhaps, Marochnik stops short of drawing any dramatic conclusions, but two things are clear.
stop short of doing sth
▪ Paula stopped just short of calling me a thief.
▪ But they have stopped short of rejecting the idea altogether.
▪ Doctors stop short of saying the disease is always fatal, but medical literature paints a bleak picture.
▪ Even then I stopped short of making a complaint.
▪ He believed in a kind of progressive development of forms, but like Forbes stopped short of an actual evolutionary theory.
▪ His passion has only just stopped short of writing a structural critique of the civil engineering faults at Valhalla.
▪ Wisely, perhaps, Marochnik stops short of drawing any dramatic conclusions, but two things are clear.
▪ Yet we stop short of analysing what it is.
stop/halt (dead) in your tracks
▪ A dreadful thought struck Jean, and she stopped in her tracks, right in the middle of the pavement.
▪ An hour later they were halted in their tracks by a cataract not marked on the map.
▪ Blue speaks her name, in a voice that seems strange to him, and she stops dead in her tracks.
▪ I stopped dead in my tracks, unsure of what to do next.
▪ It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry.
▪ People stop in their tracks and stare.
▪ Petey stopped dead in his tracks at the question.
▪ The people had stopped in their tracks, women were making their children stand behind them.
the buck stops here
▪ It was my decision to close the hospital; the buck stops with me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A man stopped me in the street and asked if I knew where the theatre was.
▪ A yellow car stopped outside the house.
▪ All the staff are determined to stop bullying in the school.
▪ Can we stop at the next services and get something to eat?
▪ Catherine stood watching the rain, hoping it would stop soon.
▪ Could you stop just here on the left?
▪ Could you stop making that noise for a moment?
▪ Could you stop what you are doing and pay attention, please?
▪ Does this train stop at Lyon?
▪ George stopped the engine and got out of the car.
▪ He wanted to quit college, and no one could stop him.
▪ He wrote quickly, but from time to time he stopped and looked out of the window.
▪ I'm not stopping, I've just popped in to pick up some books.
▪ I've made up my mind to leave home, and you can't stop me.
▪ I stopped going to church after I left home.
▪ I stopped reading and turned out the light.
▪ I stopped to rest for a few minutes.
▪ I gave my little brother some chocolate to stop him crying.
▪ I got stopped by a policeman for having a broken headlight.
▪ I saw Maria and stopped to say hello.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I want to reclaim it - so I can stop being a casualty of this war that has no name.
▪ Our tanks and tracks kept going a little bit and stopped to return fire immediately.
▪ So eventually I stopped even going for the tests.
▪ The emperor himself could not stop it now.
▪ They wanted to stop equality for black people and to kill anyone who didn't agree with them.
▪ When I asked Jasper what had stopped him from accepting these large offers, the question startled him.
▪ When Jack put a foot on the dance floor, some, then all couples stopped and the band trailed off.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
brief
▪ In 1979 Tom Kendall joined the desk from Wharton, with a brief intervening stop in the back office.
▪ About half way back, he made a brief stop and flung the empty gasoline can far into the night.
▪ He and his cameraman spent 17 hours traveling from one hilly location to the next, with a brief stop in Scottsdale.
▪ After a brief stop at Gairlochy, I decide to make straight for Fiona's croft.
dead
▪ We were on the verge of an affair, but the moment he met you everything came to a dead stop.
▪ Caroline nodded, drew a deep breath, made her entrance ... And came to a dead stop.
overnight
▪ Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse.
▪ Foreigners generally get off at Novosibirsk for an overnight stop, but I stayed on the train.
▪ If you wish, we can arrange for your luggage to be sent on ahead to each of the overnight stops.
▪ One such overnight stop was in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to stay with and enlist the support of pilot Dorothy Leh.
▪ Souk Sebt, a Saturday marketplace, was our overnight stop.
▪ This journey also includes an overnight stop near Wurzburg.
▪ We cross to Calais and continue to Brussels for our first overnight stop.
short
▪ After a short stop, it's back into midstream towards Cochem and its splendid hilltop castle.
▪ Fern Lodge, Highgate, was one of their shorter stops, when it briefly became a centre of the literary universe.
▪ It's only a short stop to the sand and pebble beach where watersports are also available.
voiceless
▪ The symbol T indicates a following voiceless stop or sonorant + voiceless stop cluster.
▪ For example, extraneous voiceless stops are often hypothesized at utterance onset.
■ NOUN
campaign
▪ At a rural campaign stop in 1987, she announced she wanted to address some distant onlookers.
▪ Dole had one of those governors at his side during every campaign stop in the Midwest.
▪ Clinton, during a campaign stop in Michigan, said he would welcome the Perot at the debates.
■ VERB
come
▪ We came to a stop outside my bedroom door and he made a lurching movement.
▪ He glowered at a taxi as it came to a noisy stop at the light.
▪ Lacuna came to a stop behind her, and pulled her gently into an embrace that for once was nothing but tender.
▪ We reached the border gate at half past four and when we did, the bus came to an abrupt stop.
▪ And then she realised that the hoof beats of his horse had come to an abrupt stop.
▪ An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.
▪ Stirling's jeep was hit and came to a stop.
▪ He kept his eye on a tan Ford turning slowly into the station and coming to a stop near the service area.
draw
▪ He had actually succeeded in drifting forward and downward again, when the voice drew him to a stop once more.
make
▪ We made our usual rest stop and got water from the mountainside that had been piped in, so pure and tasty.
▪ As the southbound train hit the New Hampshire-Maine border, it made an unscheduled stop.
▪ About half way back, he made a brief stop and flung the empty gasoline can far into the night.
pull
▪ There were occasions when Bloomsbury House pulled out all the stops on behalf of children who were clearly gifted - usually in the arts.
▪ Do you suppose he has to accuse us of aggression and pull out all stops on cheap emotionalism?
▪ We pulled out all the stops and gave the company a response in record time.
▪ CafÄ Pinot is pulling out all the stops with its four-course aphrodisiac menu.
▪ Lott pulled out all the stops.
▪ But she had only ever pulled the stops out for people she loved and respected.
▪ Soap bosses pulled out all the stops so football fever could infect Albert Square.
put
▪ I thought I'd put a stop to this nonsense!
▪ The master put a stop to the nonsense the moment he walked in.
▪ It's coming out of our taxes, that's where, and we ought to put a stop to it.
▪ An attempt to annex nearby Epizephyrian Lokri was put a stop to by Hiero in 478.
▪ The young dancer put a stop to our writing, as I had expected.
▪ We did have a couple of suicides, but I soon put a stop to that.
▪ Yet a polite, reasoned reply seldom puts a stop to the exchange.
roll
▪ I cut the motor and roll to a slow stop.
▪ Soon after the bus hit the strip, it rolled to a stop.
▪ And, then, it lands with a thud and a screech until everything rolls to a complete stop.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
come to a halt/stop
▪ Almost at once there was a slight crunch of gravel under wheels as a vehicle came to a halt.
▪ An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.
▪ As it came to a stop, it widened the frenzied cluster of moths surrounding the yellow platform light over his head.
▪ He rose and led them both down the stone steps, coming to a halt at the entrance to the vestry door.
▪ The elevator rose smoothly, then came to a stop.
▪ The score indicates how far the ball bounces forward before it comes to a halt.
▪ The train lurches into movement, then, quickly, comes to a halt.
draw to a halt/stop
▪ She heard a large vehicle draw to a halt behind her on the main road.
▪ She stood there while it drew to a halt.
▪ She turned as the car drew to a halt.
▪ The car drew to a halt alongside the front door, and an instant later the driver's door swung open.
▪ The coach had drawn to a halt outside the Theater an der Wien.
▪ The convoy drew to a halt in front of the hotel.
▪ The taxi drew to a halt where a purple awning reached out to the edge of the pavement.
make a pit stop
put a stop/an end to sth
▪ It's time the community worked together to put an end to the violence.
▪ Her old feeling for him had returned; she was determined to put an end to his sufferings and bring him home.
▪ It was Gloucester who chose to put an end to it.
▪ Judge Frossard, it seems, wanted to put an end to the inertia.
▪ Swiftly introduce new legislation to put an end to the trauma and misery suffered by child witnesses in court proceedings.
▪ That put an end to any stunt deemed risky, Weiss says.
▪ This trite communication put an end to Emma's overtures and she began to fade from their lives.
▪ Thus the event of her puberty puts an end to her pure childhood.
▪ To put an end to such exalted talk, I asked Mendl to tell me about Spats-making machinery.
stop short
▪ At the crest of the hill, she stopped short as she read a warning sign next to the trail.
▪ Both stop short of demanding censorship, though Mary Whitehouse is characteristically less tentative.
▪ Even then I stopped short of making a complaint.
▪ He believed in a kind of progressive development of forms, but like Forbes stopped short of an actual evolutionary theory.
▪ He reads a few lines and stops short.
▪ He stopped short of making recommendations about weapons programs in his 90-minute meeting at the White House.
▪ It goes without saying that all this stops short at the people, who have been abandoned to the authorities' exploitation.
▪ The door opened abruptly, and over Roman's shoulder Claudia saw Dana stop short in confusion.
▪ Wisely, perhaps, Marochnik stops short of drawing any dramatic conclusions, but two things are clear.
stop short of doing sth
▪ Paula stopped just short of calling me a thief.
▪ But they have stopped short of rejecting the idea altogether.
▪ Doctors stop short of saying the disease is always fatal, but medical literature paints a bleak picture.
▪ Even then I stopped short of making a complaint.
▪ He believed in a kind of progressive development of forms, but like Forbes stopped short of an actual evolutionary theory.
▪ His passion has only just stopped short of writing a structural critique of the civil engineering faults at Valhalla.
▪ Wisely, perhaps, Marochnik stops short of drawing any dramatic conclusions, but two things are clear.
▪ Yet we stop short of analysing what it is.
stop/halt (dead) in your tracks
▪ A dreadful thought struck Jean, and she stopped in her tracks, right in the middle of the pavement.
▪ An hour later they were halted in their tracks by a cataract not marked on the map.
▪ Blue speaks her name, in a voice that seems strange to him, and she stops dead in her tracks.
▪ I stopped dead in my tracks, unsure of what to do next.
▪ It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry.
▪ People stop in their tracks and stare.
▪ Petey stopped dead in his tracks at the question.
▪ The people had stopped in their tracks, women were making their children stand behind them.
the buck stops here
▪ It was my decision to close the hospital; the buck stops with me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Excuse me, could you tell me what the next stop is?
▪ I'm getting off at the next stop.
▪ Our trip to Africa included a stop in the Serengeti.
▪ We need to get off at the next stop.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.
▪ At Freeport, the Jones Beach stop, was the mad dash for the bus.
▪ Having reached Aulef and taken on water, that night was a pit stop.
▪ If you're looking for ground-breaking mayhem, you got off at the wrong Greyhound stop.
▪ The crystal ensures that the interval between reset and stop is stable and accurate.
Related phrases:
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stop

Stop \Stop\, v. i.

  1. To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.

    He bites his lip, and starts; Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground; Then lays his finger on his temple: strait Springs out into fast gait; then stops again.
    --Shak.

  2. To cease from any motion, or course of action.

    Stop, while ye may, suspend your mad career!
    --Cowper.

  3. To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend. [Colloq.]

    By stopping at home till the money was gone.
    --R. D. Blackmore.

    To stop over, to stop at a station or airport beyond the time of the departure of the train or airplane on which one came, with the purpose of continuing one's journey on a subsequent train or airplane; to break one's journey. See stopover, n.

Stop

Stop \Stop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stopping.] [OE. stoppen, AS. stoppian (in comp.); akin to LG. & D. stoppen, G. stopfen, Icel. stoppa, Sw. stoppa, Dan. stoppe; all probably fr. LL. stopare, stupare, fr. L. stuppa the coarse part of flax, tow, oakum. Cf. Estop, Stuff, Stupe a fomentation.]

  1. To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
    --Shak.

  2. To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.

  3. To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.

  4. To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.

    Whose disposition all the world well knows Will not be rubbed nor stopped.
    --Shak.

  5. (Mus.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.

  6. To point, as a composition; to punctuate. [R.]

    If his sentences were properly stopped.
    --Landor.

  7. (Naut.) To make fast; to stopper.

    Syn: To obstruct; hinder; impede; repress; suppress; restrain; discontinue; delay; interrupt.

    To stop off (Founding), to fill (a part of a mold) with sand, where a part of the cavity left by the pattern is not wanted for the casting.

    To stop the mouth. See under Mouth.

Stop

Stop \Stop\, n.

  1. The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.

    It is doubtful . . . whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection.
    --De Foe.

    Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy.
    --Sir I. Newton.

    It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them.
    --Locke.

  2. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.

    A fatal stop traversed their headlong course.
    --Daniel.

    So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.
    --Rogers.

  3. (Mach.) 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.

  4. (Mus.)

    1. The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.

      The organ sound a time survives the stop.
      --Daniel.

    2. In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.

  5. (Arch.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.

  6. A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.

  7. (Opt.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.

  8. (Zo["o]l.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.

  9. (Phonetics) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed

    1. so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or

    2. so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed.
      --H. Sweet.

      Stop bead (Arch.), the molding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide.

      Stop motion (Mach.), an automatic device for arresting the motion of a machine, as when a certain operation is completed, or when an imperfection occurs in its performance or product, or in the material which is supplied to it, etc.

      Stop plank, one of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in some hydraulic works.

      Stop valve, a valve that can be closed or opened at will, as by hand, for preventing or regulating flow, as of a liquid in a pipe; -- in distinction from a valve which is operated by the action of the fluid it restrains.

      Stop watch, a watch the hands of which can be stopped in order to tell exactly the time that has passed, as in timing a race. See Independent seconds watch, under Independent, a.

      Syn: Cessation; check; obstruction; obstacle; hindrance; impediment; interruption.

Related phrases:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stop

late 14c., "a plug;" mid-15c., "a cessation," from stop (v.). Of mechanisms of musical instruments from c.1500, especially of organs, where opening them makes it produce more sound, hence figurative phrase pull out the stops (1909). From 1660s in phonetics, 1831 in photography. Meaning "a stopping place" is from 1889. To put a stop to some activity is from 1670s (earlier give a stop to, 1580s).

stop

Old English -stoppian (in forstoppian "to stop up, stifle"), a general West Germanic word, cognate with Old Saxon stuppon, West Frisian stopje, Middle Low German stoppen, Old High German stopfon, German stopfen "to plug, stop up," Old Low Frankish (be)stuppon "to stop (the ears)."\n

\nThese words are said by many sources to be a Germanic borrowing of Vulgar Latin *stuppare "to stop or stuff with tow or oakum" (source of Italian stoppare, French étouper "to stop with tow"), from Latin stuppa "coarse part of flax, tow." In support of this theory, it is said that plugs made of tow were used from ancient times in Rhine valley. Century Dictionary says this "suits phonetically," but "is on grounds of meaning somewhat doubtful." Barnhart, for one, proposes the whole Germanic group might be native, from a base *stoppon. \n

\nSense of "bring or come to a halt, discontinue" (mid-15c.) is from notion of preventing a flow by blocking a hole, and the word's development in this sense is unique to English, though it since has been widely adopted in other languages; perhaps influenced by Latin stupere "be stunned, be stupefied." Intransitive meaning "check oneself" is from 1680s. Meaning "make a halt or stay, tarry" is from 1711. Stop-light is from 1922; stop-sign is from 1918. Stop-motion is from 1851, originally of looms. Related: Stopped; stopping.

Wiktionary
stop

Etymology 1 adv. prone to halting or hesitation. interj. halt! stop! n. 1 A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station. 2 An action of stopping; interruption of travel. 3 A device intended to block the path of a moving object; as, a door stop. 4 (label en linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis; a plosive. 5 A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon. 6 That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment. 7 A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player. 8 (label en by extension) A button that activates the stop function. 9 (label en music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ. 10 (label en tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible. 11 (label en zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones. 12 (label en photography) An f-stop. 13 (label en engineering) 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. 14 (label en architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. 15 The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses. vb. (label en intransitive) To cease moving. Etymology 2

n. (label en UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.

Related phrases:
WordNet
stop

  1. n. the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill" [syn: halt]

  2. the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood" [syn: stoppage]

  3. a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends" [syn: stopover, layover]

  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" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stoppage]

  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" [syn: stop consonant, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive] [ant: continuant consonant]

  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" [syn: period, point, full stop, full point]

  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" [syn: diaphragm]

  10. a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open" [syn: catch]

  11. an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" [syn: blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stoppage]

  12. [also: stopping, stopped]

stop

  1. v. come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" [syn: halt] [ant: start]

  2. put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" [syn: discontinue, cease, give up, quit, lay off] [ant: continue]

  3. stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process" [syn: halt, block, kibosh]

  4. interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence" [syn: stop over]

  5. cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief" [ant: start]

  6. prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negociations" [syn: break, break off, discontinue]

  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" [syn: check, turn back, arrest, contain, hold back]

  8. seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace" [syn: intercept]

  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" [syn: end, finish, terminate, cease] [ant: begin]

  10. render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade, block, blockade, block off, block up, bar]

  11. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!" [syn: hold on]

  12. [also: stopping, stopped]

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Stop may refer to:

Stop (Pink Floyd song)

"Stop" is a song from the 1979 Pink Floyd album, The Wall. It was written by Roger Waters.

Stop (Plain White T's album)

Stop is an album by Plain White T's. It was first released by Plain White T's on So Happy Publishing in 2001, and re-released twice, first in 2002 by Fearless Records, and again in 2007 with three bonus tracks. It's the last album to feature its original line-up.

Stop (Franco De Vita album)

Stop is a 2004 studio album by Franco De Vita. The first hit single was " Tú De Qué Vas", which reached No. 3 on Billboard Hot Latin Tracks and No. 1 Latin Pop Airplay. " Ay Dios" and " Si La Ves", a collaboration with Sin Bandera, were also released as singles,m with the latter also hitting the Top 10 in Billboard. The album earned a Latin Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Album.

Stop (Don Lanphere album)

Stop is a studio album by Don Lanphere released by Hep Records in 1983.

Stop (Ryan Adams song)

"Stop" is a song by Ryan Adams and The Cardinals from their album Cardinology. The track closes the album (excluding bonus tracks) and is concerned with the topic of substance abuse.

"Stop" is the only slow song on Cardinology and was featured on A&E's The Cleaner on September 30, 2008.

Stop (Stockhausen)

Stop is a composition for orchestra (divided into six groups) by Karlheinz Stockhausen, work-number 18 in the composer’s catalogue of works, where two performing realisations are also found as Nr. 18½ and Nr. 18⅔.

Stop (Rogatica)

'''Stop ''' is a village in the municipality of Rogatica, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Stop (Sibel Redžep song)

Stop! is a song written by Mikaela Stenström och Dimitri Stassos, and performed by Sibel Redžep at Melodifestivalen 2010. The song participated in the semifinal inside the Malmö Arena, but didn't make it further. It as also released as a single the same year. and peaked at 27th position at the Swedish singles chart.

Stop (Stefanie Heinzmann song)

"Stop" is a song by Swiss recording artist Stefanie Heinzmann. It was witten by Kim Sanders, Michel Zitron, Marek Pompetzki, and Paul NZA for her second studio album, Roots to Grow (2009). while production was helmed by Pompetzki and NZA. The song was released as the album's second single along with " Unbreakable".

Stop (Spice Girls song)

"Stop" is a song by the British pop group Spice Girls. It was written by the group members with Paul Wilson and Andy Watkins—the songwriters and production duo known as Absolute—at the same time as the group was filming scenes for their movie Spice World. "Stop" was produced by Wilson and Watkins for the group's second album Spiceworld, which was released in November 1997.

"Stop" is an dance-pop song with influences of Motown's blue-eyed soul, and features instrumentation from a guitar and a brass. The music video, directed by James Brown and filmed in Ireland, features the group in a traditional 1950s working class street and showed them playing with young girls in various children's games. The song received mostly positive reviews from music critics, with many of them complimenting the Motown influences and production. "Stop" was performed by the group in a number of live appearances in Europe and North America including their three tours.

Released as the album's third single in March 1998, it peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart behind " It's Like That" by Run-D.M.C. vs Jason Nevins, ending the Spice Girls' streak of consecutive number-one singles in the on the chart at six. It was moderately successful internationally, peaking inside the top twenty on the majority of the charts that it entered. In the United States, "Stop" peaked at number sixteen on the Billboard Hot 100 becoming the group's sixth consecutive top twenty on the chart. It was the group's last single that was released before Geri Halliwell's departure in May 1998 though it was not the last single to include her vocals.

Stop (Bang song)

Stop ( Greek script: Στοπ) was the Greek entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987, performed in Greek by Bang.

The song was performed eleventh on the night, following Turkey's Seyyal Taner & Grup Lokomotif with " Şarkım Sevgi Üstüne" and preceding the Netherlands' Marcha with " Rechtop in de wind". At the close of voting, it had received 64 points, placing 10th in a field of 22.

The song is directed to a woman who leads a glamorous life. The singer suggests that she should slow down and enjoy life, because otherwise she will miss out on the point of it all.

It was succeeded as Greek representative at the 1988 Contest by Afroditi Frida with " Clown".

Stop (Omar Naber song)

"Stop" was the Slovene entry to the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, sung by Omar Naber and performed in Slovenian, despite its English title and the fact that there are two different English lyrics.

There are two different orchestrations of the song, which were recorded, the version used at the Eurovision was the later version. Both orchestrations were used for both Slovenian and English versions, however the English lyrics were changed for the newer orchestration. Hence why there are two sets of English but only one Slovenian set.

A year later, the song was rerecorded, some sources say it was in Croatian, others say it is Serbian. Due to the similarities in both languages, it is difficult for non-speakers of the languages to be certain. Only the later Eurovision orchestration was used for this version.

On the night of the semi-final, the song performed twenty-third, following Ireland's Donna and Joseph McCaul with " Love?" and preceding Denmark's Jakob Sveistrup and " Talking to You". At the close of voting, it had received 69 points, placing twelfth in a field of twenty five, failing to reach the final, and relegating Slovenia to the semi-final in the next contest for another year.

It was succeeded as Slovene representative at the 2006 contest by Anžej Dežan with " Mr Nobody".

Stop (Eric Burdon Band album)

Stop is a hard rock / R&B album by the first incarnation of the Eric Burdon Band, whose line up consisted of Burdon, John Sterling, Kim Kesterson and Terry Ryan.

The band was formed in 1971, after Burdon left his previous band War to cut an album with Jimmy Witherspoon. They recorded the 1971 album Guilty and then, without Witherspoon, this album.

Not released until July 1975, it featured no hit single, but did enjoy some American chart success, reaching both US and Canadian album charts.

The distinctive red and white gatefold sleeve, together with the plain white inner-sleeve, are die-cut octagonally in the shape of a traffic stop sign. Inside the gatefold one surface bears a large black and white portrait of Burdon, based on a photograph.

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Usage examples of "stop".

But he was gone, and even being without him would not stop her from accomplishing what was necessary.

And do you also know that had your egocentric, blind lead wizard not been so protective of his silly secret of the training of young females in the craft, you could have easily stopped me from accomplishing all that I have?

I got that slug in my hip--and the keg hit my laigs and stopped, so I picked it up and heaved it back acrost the street.

When he got no response from his verbal attempts, actually poking her foot with his toe so that she looked up at him in shock and affrontery before she could stop herself.

Then suddenly they were gone, all stopped together, and the water resumed its flat oily calm, only the smell of sulphur hanging on the air to remind us that we were aground on a submarine volcano that was fissured with gas-vents like a colander.

The sobs which interrupted the short and simple allocution which the pastor made to his flock overcame him so much that he stopped and said no more, except to invite all present to fervent prayer.

He never stopped alluding to their fate, determined to undermine any prospect of relief.

In the white he lifted the child off her feet, knowing that she would stop short in amazement, lest he run over her.

The inspector had stopped suddenly, and was staring with a look of absolute amazement at a paper upon the table.

The amplitude of a given vibration can thus be predetermined by the adjustment of the sliding stop.

Grumbler stopped again, momentarily confused, angrily tempted to lob a magnapult canister across the broken terrain toward the impact, but the emissary ear reported no physical movement from the area.

The Antelope people were glad to stop and rest and talk with the others.

We need to stop telling ourselves the same old anthropocentric bedtime stories.

If this is a virus infection, we might only need to find an antibody for inoculation to stop it in its tracks.

When he stopped looking at her legs and breasts in anticipation he saw there was a daunting expression on her face.