stop

Meanings

• the event of something ending
  • "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
• the act of stopping something
  • "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"
  • "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
• a brief stay in the course of a journey
  • "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
• the state of inactivity following an interruption
  • "he spent the entire stop in his seat"
• a spot where something halts or pauses
  • "his next stop is Atlanta"
• a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
  • "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
• 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"
• (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"
• a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
• a restraint that checks the motion of something
  • "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
• an obstruction in a pipe or tube
• come to a halt, stop moving
  • "the car stopped"
  • "She stopped in front of a store window"
• put an end to a state or an activity
• stop from happening or developing
• interrupt a trip
  • "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"
  • "they stopped for three days in Florence"
• cause to stop
  • "stop a car"
  • "stop the thief"
• prevent completion
  • "stop the project"
• hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
• seize on its way
• have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
  • "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"
• render unsuitable for passage
  • "stop the busy road"
• stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments

Synonyms

arrest, bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade, blockage, break, break off, catch, cease, check, closure, contain, diaphragm, discontinue, end, finish, full point, full stop, give up, halt, hitch, hold back, hold on, intercept, kibosh, lay off, layover, occlusion, occlusive, period, plosive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, point, quit, stay, stop consonant, stop over, stopover, stoppage, terminate, turn back