stop

v. halt; cease, quit; close, plug; block; hinder, impede; prevent; delay; pause during a journey

n. cessation; end; visit; place at which someone or something stops; plug; obstacle, hindrance; lens aperture (Photography); device or movement that changes the sound of a note (Music)

The word stop has several possible meanings in the English language, but most commonly means to cease moving.Additionally, stop can refer to:Stops (Dynamic Range), the amount of contrast between black and white in video, film, and still photographyStop consonant in linguisticsAperture, a structure that limits the diameter of a light path in an optical systemf-stops, a unit of measure of apertureExposure (photography), a relative measure of exposureStop squark, the supersymmetric partner of the top quark, in particle physicsStop codon in genetic code.Full stop, a punctuation mark known in the U.S. as a "period" and shortened to stop in telegraph messagesThe point on an animal's head at which the muzzle meets the foreheadBlue Screen of Death, an error in Microsoft Windows or Windows-based operating systemsStop, a brand name climbing device made by PetzlIn music:Organ stop, one or more ranks of pipes used together to make a particular sound on a pipe organ; also the control used to select themDouble stop, stopping multiple strings on a stringed instrumentSongs:Stop (Spice Girls song), a 1998 release by Spice Girls, from the album SpiceworldStop (Pink Floyd song), a song by Pink Floyd, from the album The Wall"Stop", a song by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club from their 2003 album Take Them On, On Your Own"Stop, Hey, What's that sound?", the famous first line of the chorus to "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield, which is sometimes mistaken for its title
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Stop! may refer to:Stop! (album), a 1988 album by Sam Brown "Stop!" (Sam Brown song), a song from this album"DJ/Stop", this same song as later covered UK R&B singer Jamelia"Stop!", a song by Jane’s Addiction from their 1990 album Ritual de lo HabitualStop!, a 2004 Indian film starring Dia Mirza
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Noun
1. the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
(synonym) halt
(hypernym) ending, conclusion, finish
(hyponym) cessation, surcease
2. the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
(synonym) stoppage
(hypernym) act, human action, human activity
(hyponym) standdown, stand-down
(derivation) break, break off, discontinue
3. a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
(synonym) stopover, layover
(hypernym) stay
(hyponym) night-stop
(derivation) stop over
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"
(synonym) arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stoppage
(hypernym) inaction, inactivity, inactiveness
(hyponym) countercheck
(derivation) hold on
5. a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta"
(hypernym) topographic point, place, spot
(hyponym) bus stop
(derivation) stop over
6. a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
(synonym) stop consonant, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive
(hypernym) consonant
(hyponym) labial stop
(part-meronym) implosion
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"
(synonym) period, point, full stop, full point
(hypernym) punctuation, punctuation mark
(hyponym) suspension 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"
(hypernym) knob
(part-holonym) organ, pipe organ
(classification) music
9. a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"
(synonym) diaphragm
(hypernym) mechanical device
(hyponym) iris, iris diaphragm
(part-holonym) camera, photographic camera
10. a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
(synonym) catch
(hypernym) restraint, constraint
(hyponym) doorstop, doorstopper
(derivation) barricade, block, blockade, block off, block up, bar
11. an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
(synonym) blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stoppage
(hypernym) obstruction, obstructor, obstructer, impediment, impedimenta
(hyponym) breechblock, breech closer
Verb
1. come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
(synonym) halt
(antonym) start, go, get going
(hyponym) go off
(derivation) halt
2. put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
(synonym) discontinue, cease, give up, quit, lay off
(hyponym) drop, knock off
(derivation) stopover, layover
3. stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
(synonym) halt, block, kibosh
(hypernym) prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid
(hyponym) embargo
(derivation) stoppage
4. interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"
(synonym) stop over
(hypernym) interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off
(hyponym) call
5. cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"
(antonym) start, start up
(hyponym) check
(cause) halt
(derivation) halt
6. prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negociations"
(synonym) break, break off, discontinue
(hypernym) end, terminate
(hyponym) fracture
(derivation) stoppage
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"
(synonym) check, turn back, arrest, contain, hold back
(hypernym) defend
(hyponym) cut down, cut out
(derivation) catch
8. seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"
(synonym) intercept
(hypernym) catch, grab, take hold of
(hyponym) cut off, cut out
(derivation) catch
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"
(synonym) end, finish, terminate, cease
(hyponym) pass away
10. render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
(synonym) barricade, block, blockade, block off, block up, bar
(hypernym) obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up
(hyponym) shut off, block off, close off
(verb-group) obstruct, block
(derivation) catch
11. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"
(synonym) hold on
(hypernym) interrupt, break
(derivation) arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stoppage

n. (new spell.=Stopp) stop, cessation

interj. (new spell.=stopp) avast, stop! (Nautical)

n. stop