stops

Meanings

• a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
• the event of something ending
• the act of stopping something
  • "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"
• a brief stay in the course of a journey
• the state of inactivity following an interruption
• a spot where something halts or pauses
• a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
• a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
• (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
• an obstruction in a pipe or tube
• come to a halt, stop moving
• put an end to a state or an activity
• stop from happening or developing
• interrupt a trip
• cause to stop
• prevent completion
• 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
• render unsuitable for passage
• stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments

Synonyms

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