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verb (used with object), stopped or (Primitive) stopt; stop·ping.

to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to end running.

to cause to cease; put an stop to: to stop noise in the street.

to interrupt, arrest, or cheque (a form, proceeding, process, etc.): Stop your work just a infinitesimal.

to cut off, intercept, or withhold: to stop supplies.

to restrain, hinder, or forbid (ordinarily followed by from): I couldn't stop him from going.

to forestall from proceeding, acting, operating, continuing, etc.: to stop a speaker; to stop a machine.

to cake, obstruct, or close (a passageway, channel, opening, duct, etc.) (usually followed by upwardly): He stopped upwardly the sink with a paper towel. He stopped the hole in the tire with a patch.

to fill the hole or holes in (a wall, a decayed tooth, etc.).

to close (a container, tube, etc.) with a cork, plug, bung, or the similar.

to shut the external orifice of (the ears, olfactory organ, mouth, etc.).

Sports.

1. to bank check (a stroke, blow, etc.); parry; ward off.
2. to defeat (an opposing actor or team): The Browns stopped the Colts.
3. Boxing. to defeat past a knockout or technical knockout: Louis stopped Conn in the 13th circular.

Banking. to notify a banking company to refuse payment of (a bank check) upon presentation.

Bridge. to have an honor carte and a sufficient number of protecting cards to go along an opponent from standing to win in (a suit).

Music.

1. to close (a fingerhole) in order to produce a particular note from a wind instrument.
2. to press down (a string of a violin, viola, etc.) in lodge to modify the pitch of the tone produced from information technology.
3. to produce (a particular note) by then doing.

verb (used without object), stopped or (Primitive) stopt; stop·ping.

to come up to a stand, as in a course or journey; halt.

to cease moving, proceeding, speaking, acting, operating, etc.; to break; desist.

to cease; come to an end.

to halt for a brief visit (frequently followed past at, in, or past): He is stopping at the all-time hotel in boondocks.

stop by, to brand a brief visit on one'due south manner elsewhere: I'll stop by on my way home.

substantive

the act of stopping.

a cessation or arrest of movement, action, performance, etc.; finish: The noise came to a stop. Put a end to that behavior!

a stay or sojourn made at a place, as in the course of a journey: Above all, he enjoyed his stop in Trieste.

a identify where trains or other vehicles halt to take on and belch passengers: Is this a motorbus stop?

a endmost or filling up, as of a hole.

a blocking or obstructing, as of a passage or channel.

a plug or other stopper for an opening.

an obstruction, impediment, or hindrance.

whatsoever piece or device that serves to check or control movement or activity in a mechanism.

Architecture. a feature terminating a molding or chamfer.

Commerce.

1. an club to decline payment of a check.
2. end lodge.

Music.

1. the act of closing a fingerhole or pressing a cord of an instrument in order to produce a particular annotation.
2. a device or contrivance, equally on an musical instrument, for accomplishing this.
3. (in an organ) a graduated set of pipes of the same kind and giving tones of the same quality.
4. Also called stop knob. a knob or handle that is fatigued out or pushed back to allow or foreclose the sounding of such a set of pipes or to command some other office of the organ.
5. (in a reed organ) a group of reeds functioning like a pipe-organ stop.

Sports. an individual defensive play or act that prevents an opponent or opposing squad from scoring, advancing, or gaining an advantage, as a catch in baseball, a tackle in football game, or the deflection of a shot in hockey.

Nautical. a piece of small line used to lash or fasten something, equally a furled sheet.

Phonetics.

1. an articulation that interrupts the period of air from the lungs.
2. a consonant sound characterized past end joint, as p, b, t, d, k, and g. Compare continuant.

Photography. the diaphragm opening of a lens, specially as indicated by an f- number.

any of various marks used every bit punctuation at the end of a sentence, especially a period.

the word "finish" printed in the trunk of a telegram or cablegram to signal a period.

stops, (used with a singular verb) a family unit of card games whose object is to play all of one's cards in a predetermined sequence before i'due south opponents.

Zoology. a low in the face of certain animals, especially dogs, marker the sectionalization betwixt the forehead and the projecting part of the muzzle.

Verb Phrases

stop downwards, Photography. (on a camera) to reduce (the diaphragm opening of a lens).

stop in, to make a brief, incidental visit: If you're in boondocks, be certain to stop in.

terminate off, to halt for a cursory stay at some point on the style elsewhere: On the mode to Rome nosotros stopped off at Florence.

stop out,

1. to mask (certain areas of an etching plate, photographic negative, etc.) with varnish, paper, or the like, to forestall their being etched, printed, etc.
2. to withdraw temporarily from schoolhouse: Most of the students who stop out eventually return to get their degrees.

terminate over, to stop briefly in the course of a journey: Many motorists were forced to terminate over in that town because of floods.

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Idioms about stop

pull out all the stops,

1. to utilize every means available.
2. to express, do, or carry out something without reservation.

Origin of cease

before g; Center English stoppen (5.), Old English language -stoppian (in forstoppian to stop upward); cognate with Dutch, Depression German stoppen,German stopfen; all ≪ Vulgar Latin *stuppāre to plug with oakum, derivative of Latin stuppa fibroid hemp or flax <Greek stýppē

synonym report for stop

three. Stop, arrest, check, halt imply causing a cessation of movement or progress (literal or figurative). Stop is the general term for the idea: to stop a clock. Arrest usually refers to stopping by imposing a sudden and consummate restraint: to arrest development. Check implies bringing about an sharp, partial, or temporary stop: to check a trotting equus caballus. To halt means to make a temporary stop, especially one resulting from a command: to halt a company of soldiers.

OTHER WORDS FROM stop

stopless, describing word stop·less·ness, noun mul·ti·stop, adjective

Words nearby stop

stoop ball, stoop labor, stoop to, stoor, stoozing, end, stop and frisk, cease-and-go, stop at nothing, stopbank, stop bath

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Words related to cease

bar, block, break, conclusion, pause, destination, halt, stage, station, stopover, finish, close, drop, end, hold, kill, put an terminate to, quit, stall, stand up

How to use stop in a sentence

• At present I take a plausible explanation for how I feel, putting a finish to some of the second-guessing going on in my head.

• It seems like he'due south going to continue to practise this until someone puts a stop to it.

• That hope was enough to quell a few lawsuits filed past California groups confronting the federal regime for declining to put a stop to the sewage-filled stormwater rolling from Mexico's hills.

• The agency issued a stop sale, use or removal order, which is supposed to forbid the company from selling its product.

• The chair of the Uptown Community Parking District board proposed using the funds for cleaning bus stops, but the city said no.

• Just I recollect Steve Austin has to squad up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.

• That ground concur was to finish yous flying through atmospheric condition that could kill yous and everyone else aboard.

• Thankfully there were no casualties—the commuter managed to finish the train immediately.

• The men were accused of reneging on pledges to end working for the Iraqi government.

• Has L.A. figured out how to stop the epidemic it fix loose on the globe?

• "But I can't stop to contend near it now;" and, saying this, he turned into a side path, and disappeared in the wood.

• At twelve, or xv, or 16, or xx it was decided that they should cease learning.

• He had seen the act committed, he felt sure but had fabricated no endeavor whatever to finish the thief.

• The Kangaroo can hop and hop and hop; Somehow he never seems to desire to stop.

• Notwithstanding when I end gazing the next impulse is to move on; for if I accept time to residue anywhere, why not at domicile?

British Dictionary definitions for end

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verb stops, stopping or stopped

to cease from doing or existence (something); discontinue cease talking

to cause (something moving) to halt or (of something moving) to come up to a halt to stop a car; the machine stopped

(tr) to prevent the continuance or completion of to end a evidence

(tr often foll past from) to prevent or restrain to stop George from fighting

(tr) to keep back to cease supplies to the navy

(tr) to intercept or hinder in transit to terminate a letter

(tr often foll past up) to cake or plug, esp so as to close to stop upwardly a pipe

(tr often foll by up) to fill up a hole or opening in to stop upwards a wall

(tr) to staunch or stalk to stop a wound

(tr) to instruct a bank not to honor (a bank check)

(tr) to deduct (money) from pay

(tr) British to provide with punctuation

(tr) boxing to beat (an opponent) either by a knockout or a technical knockout

(tr) informal to receive (a blow, hit, etc)

(intr) to stay or residue we stopped at the Robinsons' for three nights

(tr) rare to defeat, beat, or impale

(tr) music

1. to alter the vibrating length of (a cord on a violin, guitar, etc) by pressing down on it at some betoken with the finger
2. to alter the vibrating length of an air column in a current of air musical instrument by closing (a finger hole, etc)
3. to produce (a note) in this mode

(tr) to place a hand inside (the bell of a French horn) to alter the tone colour and pitch or play (a note) on a French horn in such a mode

bridge to have a protecting card or winner in (a conform in which one's opponents are potent)

stop at nothing to exist prepared to exercise anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless

noun

an arrest of movement or progress

the human activity of stopping or the country of being stopped

a identify where something halts or pauses a bus end

a stay in or equally if in the course of a journey

the act or an instance of blocking or obstructing

a plug or stopper

a block, screw, or other device or object that prevents, limits, or terminates the motion of a machinery or moving function

British a punctuation marker, esp a full stop

Likewise called: end thrust fencing a counterthrust fabricated without a parry in the hope that one's bract will bear on before one's opponent's bract

music

1. the act of stopping the string, finger pigsty, etc, of an instrument
2. a set of organ pipes or harpsichord strings that may be allowed to sound as a group by muffling or silencing all other such sets
3. a knob, lever, or handle on an organ, etc, that is operated to allow sets of pipes to sound
4. an analogous device on a harpsichord or other instrument with variable registers, such as an electrophonic instrument

pull out all the stops

1. to play at full book
2. to spare no effort

Australian a stud on a football game boot

the bending between the brow and muzzle of a dog or true cat, regarded every bit a bespeak in breeding

nautical a short length of line or small stuff used equally a necktie, esp for a furled sail

Likewise called: terminate consonant phonetics whatsoever of a class of consonants articulated past get-go making a complete closure at some point of the vocal tract and then releasing it abruptly with audible plosion. Stops include the labials (p, b), the alveolars or dentals (t, d), the velars (k, g) Compare continuant

Besides chosen: f-finish photog

1. a setting of the aperture of a camera lens, calibrated to the corresponding f-number
2. another name for diaphragm (def. 4)

a cake or carving used to complete the finish of a moulding

Likewise chosen: stopper bridge a protecting card or winner in a adjust in which i's opponents are strong

Derived forms of stop

stoppable, describing word

Word Origin for finish

C14: from Old English stoppian (unattested), equally in forstoppian to plug the ear, ultimately from Late Latin stuppāre to stop with a tow, from Latin stuppa tow, from Greek stuppē

Collins English Lexicon - Complete & Entire 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Other Idioms and Phrases with stop

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In improver to the idioms kickoff with stop

• stop at nothing
• stop by
• cease common cold
• terminate in
• stop off
• stop payment
• finish short
• stop someone's clock
• terminate the clock
• finish up

besides see:

• buck stops here
• pull out all the stops
• put an end (a stop) to

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