Pronunciations (10)
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/stɒp/
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/stɔp/
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/stɑp/
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/stɒp/
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- Canada
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/stɒp/
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[stɔ̟p]
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- New-Zealand
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/(ɪ)sʈɔp/
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- South-Asia
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/(ɪ)sʈɑp/
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stɒp
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stɑp
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- US
Verb
To cease moving.
Usage- Intransitive
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I stopped at the traffic lights.
Not to continue.
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The riots stopped when police moved in.
Soon the rain will stop.
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Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
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The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.
This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him.
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A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails.[…]This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?
To cease; to no longer continue.
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One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.
To cause (something) to come to an end.
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The referees stopped the fight.
To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something.
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Don't let me stop you working.
When they have finished the milk they must be patted and squeezed to stop them exploding.
To close or block an opening.
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He stopped the wound with gauze.
Rotten leaves and branches have stopped the gutter.
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I've had the cracks in the wall stopped with mortar by the builders.
To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
Usage- Intransitive
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- with “up” or “down”
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To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.
To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
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to stop with a friend
He stopped for two weeks at the inn.
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He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.
Springhaven had done so well last week, that this week it meant to do still better, by stopping at home till the money was gone, and making short work afterwards.
She’s not going away. She’s going to stop here forever.
To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
To punctuate.
Usage- Obsolete
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[Francesco] Guicciardini, if his sentences were properly stopt, would be found in general both full and concise, whatever may be asserted to the contrary by the fastidious and inattentive.
To make fast; to stopper.
To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
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th-stopping
To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
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It will be noted that the specialist would have refused to stop the stock for broker X if he (the specialist) had only one order to sell at 85.
To take out of service for repair, servicing or examination.
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The mechanical foreman is also present, and he gives a progress report of engines under repair and those stopped for their periodical routine examination.
To quit partaking in the use of or participation in (something).
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She stopped heroin last year.
He stopped football to focus on acting.
Noun
A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
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They agreed to meet at the bus stop.
An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
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That stop was not planned.
It is […] doubtful […] whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection.
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Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy.
It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them.
That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
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A fatal stop trauerst their headlong course
So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.
A device intended to block the path of a moving object
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door stop
A device intended to block the path of a moving object A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
A device intended to block the path of a moving object A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
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The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.
One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal.
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The Foxes were indebted to two crucial saves from keeper Kasper Schmeichel, who turned former Leicester defender Ben Chilwell's header on to a post then produced an even better stop to turn Mason Mount's powerful shot wide.
The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
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The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.
A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
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The American Rabbit Breeders Association holds that the stops of a Dutch rabbit should be white from the toes to one third of the way along the foot.
A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
An f-stop.
The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
Usage- punctuation
Noun
A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
Usage- UK usage
- dialectal
Noun
The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
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For neutralino masses below approximately 700 GeV, gluino masses of less than 1.78 TeV and 1.76 TeV are excluded at the 95% CL in simplified models of the pair production of gluinos decaying via sbottom and stop, respectively.
Noun
the event of something ending
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it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill
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
a brief stay in the course of a journey
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they made a stopover to visit their friends
the state of inactivity following an interruption
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the negotiations were in arrest
held them in check
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during the halt he got some lunch
the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow
he spent the entire stop in his seat
a spot where something halts or pauses
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his next stop is Atlanta
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
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’
(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
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
a restraint that checks the motion of something
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he used a book as a stop to hold the door open
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
Verb
come to a halt, stop moving
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the car stopped
She stopped in front of a store window
put an end to a state or an activity
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Quit teasing your little brother
stop from happening or developing
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Block his election
Halt the process
interrupt a trip
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we stopped at Aunt Mary's house
they stopped for three days in Florence
cause to end
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stop a car
stop the thief
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
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Arrest the downward trend
Check the growth of communism in South East Asia
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Contain the rebel movement
Turn back the tide of communism
seize on its way
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The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
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the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed
Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other
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My property ends by the bushes
The symphony ends in a pianissimo
render unsuitable for passage
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block the way
barricade the streets
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stop the busy road
stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
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Hold on a moment!