stop
stop
- n the event of something ending
it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill - n the act of stopping something
the third baseman made some remarkable stops
his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood - n a brief stay in the course of a journey
they made a stopover to visit their friends - n the state of inactivity following an interruption
he spent the entire stop in his seat - n a spot where something halts or pauses
his next stop is Atlanta - n a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
his stop consonants are too aspirated - n 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 - n (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 - n a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- n a restraint that checks the motion of something
he used a book as a stop to hold the door open - n an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- v come to a halt, stop moving
the car stopped
She stopped in front of a store window - v put an end to a state or an activity
- v stop from happening or developing
- v interrupt a trip
we stopped at Aunt Mary's house
they stopped for three days in Florence - v cause to stop
stop a car
stop the thief - v prevent completion
stop the project - v hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- v seize on its way
- v have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other - v render unsuitable for passage
stop the busy road - v stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- The "Stop Hitler" movement initiated by Great Britain after the seizure of Czecho-Slovakia petered out ignominiously last week.
- Then, presumably, those cops who disproportionately stop blacks or Latinos (or whites, for that matter) could be identified.
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