Meaning of stop in English
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Pronunciation
/stɑp/US accent
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stopEtymology
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 movingExamples
- « the car stopped »
- « She stopped in front of a store window »
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- 2. put an end to a state or an activity
Examples
- « Quit teasing your little brother »
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- 3. stop from happening or developing
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- « Block his election »
- « Halt the process »
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- 4. interrupt a trip
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- « we stopped at Aunt Mary's house »
- « they stopped for three days in Florence »
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- 5. cause to stop
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- « stop a car »
- « stop the thief »
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- 6. prevent completion
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- « stop the project »
- « break off the negociations »
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- 7. hold back, as of a danger or an enemy
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- « 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 »
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- 8. seize on its way
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- « The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace »
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- 9. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense
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- « 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 »
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- 10. render unsuitable for passage
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- « block the way »
- « barricade the streets »
- « stop the busy road »
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- 11. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
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- « Hold on a moment! »
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Noun
stopDefinitions
1. the event of something endingExamples
- « it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill »
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- 2. the act of stopping something
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- « the third baseman made some remarkable stops »
- « his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood »
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- 3. a brief stay in the course of a journey
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- « they made a stopover to visit their friends »
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- 4. the state of inactivity following an interruption
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- « 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 »
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- 5. a spot where something halts or pauses
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- « his next stop is Atlanta »
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- 6. a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
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- « his stop consonants are too aspirated »
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- 7. a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
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- « in England they call a period a stop »
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- 8. (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
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- « the organist pulled out all the stops »
- 9. a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
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- « the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically »
- 10. a restraint that checks the motion of something
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- « he used a book as a stop to hold the door open »
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- 11. an obstruction in a pipe or tube
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- « we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe »
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Famous quotes
- « My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect. » James Lafferty
- « As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day. » Michael Jordan
- « I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop. » Novak Djokovic
- « It's never occurred to me to worry about my health, or that I'll get old, or that people will stop laughing at me. » Frank Carson
- « The day you stop learning and creating must be the most boring day. » Samantha Barks