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Meaning of stop in English
Pronunciation
/stɑp/
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Verb
stop
Etymology
Old English (for)stoppian ‘block up (an aperture)’, of West Germanic origin; related to German stopfen, from late Latin stuppare‘to stuff’
Definitions
1.
come to a halt, stop moving
Examples
« the car stopped »
« She stopped in front of a store window »
Antonyms
start
go
get going
2.
put an end to a state or an activity
Examples
« Quit teasing your little brother »
Antonyms
continue
uphold
carry on
bear on
preserve
3.
stop from happening or developing
Examples
« Block his election »
« Halt the process »
4.
interrupt a trip
Examples
« we stopped at Aunt Mary's house »
« they stopped for three days in Florence »
5.
cause to stop
Examples
« stop a car »
« stop the thief »
Antonyms
start
start up
6.
prevent completion
Examples
« stop the project »
« break off the negociations »
7.
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy
Examples
« 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
Examples
« 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
Examples
« 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 end »
Antonyms
begin
start
10.
render unsuitable for passage
Examples
« block the way »
« barricade the streets »
« stop the busy road »
11.
stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
Examples
« Hold on a moment! »
Noun
stop
Definitions
1.
the event of something ending
Examples
« it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill »
2.
the act of stopping something
Examples
« 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
Examples
« they made a stopover to visit their friends »
4.
the state of inactivity following an interruption
Examples
« 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
Examples
« his next stop is Atlanta »
6.
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
Examples
« his stop consonants are too aspirated »
Antonyms
continuant consonant
continuant
7.
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
Examples
« 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
Examples
« the organist pulled out all the stops »
9.
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
Examples
« the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically »
10.
a restraint that checks the motion of something
Examples
« he used a book as a stop to hold the door open »
11.
an obstruction in a pipe or tube
Examples
« we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe »