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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024stop /stɑp/USA pronunciation v., stopped, stop•ping, n. v. - to cease from doing;
finish (an activity):[~ + verb-ing]I couldn't stop laughing at the joke. - to (cause to) cease or come to an end: [~ + object]to stop crime.[no object]The music stopped.
- to come to a stand, as in a course or journey: [no object]He stopped at the side of the road and watched the cars go by.[~ + to + verb]They stopped to say hello.
- to interrupt or cut off:[~ + object]Stop your work for just a moment, please.
- to halt for a stay or visit:[no object]They're stopping at a nice hotel.
- to cut off, intercept, or withhold:[~ + object]to stop supplies.
- to keep back, restrain, or prevent:[~ + object (+ from)]I couldn't stop him (from going).
- to (cause to) be prevented from proceeding, acting, or operating: [~ + object]to stop a car.[no object]The car stopped when it ran out of gas.
- to (cause to) be blocked or closed off: [~ (+ up) + object]Something has stopped (up) the sink again.[~ + object + up]Something has stopped it up again.[no object* ~ + up]The sink has stopped up again.
- [~ + object] to close (a container, etc.) with a cork, plug, etc.
- (of the outer openings of the ears, nose, or mouth) to (cause to) be closed: [~ + object (+ up)]My nose is stopped (up) and I can't breathe.[no object* ~ + up]My ears stop up in airplanes.
- Business to notify a bank to refuse payment of (a check) upon presentation:[~ + object]He stopped payment on the check because the merchandise was broken.
- stop by or in, to make a brief visit: [no object]We stopped by to say hello.[~ + by + object]We stopped by their house on the way through Indiana.
- stop off, [no object] to halt for a brief stay at some point on the way elsewhere.
- stop over, [no object]
- to stop briefly, as overnight, in the course of a journey:They stopped over in Copenhagen.
- to make a brief visit.
n. [countable] - the act of stopping.
- a bringing to an end of movement, activity, or operation;
end:Put a stop to that! - a stay made at a place, as in the course of a journey:We had a brief stop in Oslo.
- Transporta place where vehicles halt to take on and let off passengers:a bus stop.
- a plug or other stopper for an opening.
- a device that serves to check or control movement or action in a mechanism.
- Businessan order to refuse payment of a check:Put a stop on that check.
- any of various marks used as punctuation at the end of a sentence, esp. a period.
Idioms- Idioms pull out all the stops, to use every means available to accomplish something:At the end of the campaign he was pulling out all the stops: visiting every town and spending enormous sums on advertising.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024stop (stop),USA pronunciation v., stopped or (Archaic) stopt; stop•ping; n. v.t. - to cease from, leave off, or discontinue:to stop running.
- to cause to cease;
put an end to:to stop noise in the street. - to interrupt, arrest, or check (a course, proceeding, process, etc.):Stop your work just a minute.
- to cut off, intercept, or withhold:to stop supplies.
- to restrain, hinder, or prevent (usually fol. by from):I couldn't stop him from going.
- to prevent from proceeding, acting, operating, continuing, etc.:to stop a speaker; to stop a car.
- to block, obstruct, or close (a passageway, channel, opening, duct, etc.) (usually fol. by up):He stopped up 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 like.
- to close the external orifice of (the ears, nose, mouth, etc.).
- Sport
- to check (a stroke, blow, etc.);
parry; ward off. - to defeat (an opposing player or team):The Browns stopped the Colts.
- [Boxing.]to defeat by a knockout or technical knockout:Louis stopped Conn in the 13th round.
- Business[Banking.]to notify a bank to refuse payment of (a check) upon presentation.
- Games[Bridge.]to have an honor card and a sufficient number of protecting cards to keep an opponent from continuing to win in (a suit).
- Music and Dance
- to close (a fingerhole) in order to produce a particular note from a wind instrument.
- to press down (a string of a violin, viola, etc.) in order to alter the pitch of the tone produced from it.
- to produce (a particular note) by so doing.
v.i. - to come to a stand, as in a course or journey;
halt. - to cease moving, proceeding, speaking, acting, operating, etc.;
to pause; desist. - to cease;
come to an end. - to halt for a brief visit (often fol. by at, in, or by):He is stopping at the best hotel in town.
- stop by, to make a brief visit on one's way elsewhere:I'll stop by on my way home.
- Photography stop down, (on a camera) to reduce (the diaphragm opening of a lens).
- stop in, to make a brief, incidental visit:If you're in town, be sure to stop in.
- stop off, to halt for a brief stay at some point on the way elsewhere:On the way to Rome we stopped off at Florence.
- stop out:
- to mask (certain areas of an etching plate, photographic negative, etc.) with varnish, paper, or the like, to prevent their being etched, printed, etc.
- to withdraw temporarily from school:Most of the students who stop out eventually return to get their degrees.
- stop over, to stop briefly in the course of a journey:Many motorists were forced to stop over in that town because of floods.
n. - the act of stopping.
- a cessation or arrest of movement, action, operation, etc.;
end:The noise came to a stop. Put a stop 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.
- Transporta place where trains or other vehicles halt to take on and discharge passengers:Is this a bus stop?
- a closing 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 obstacle, impediment, or hindrance.
- any piece or device that serves to check or control movement or action in a mechanism.
- Architecturea feature terminating a molding or chamfer.
- Business[Com.]
- an order to refuse payment of a check.
- See stop order.
- Music and Dance
- the act of closing a fingerhole or pressing a string of an instrument in order to produce a particular note.
- a device or contrivance, as on an instrument, for accomplishing this.
- (in an organ) a graduated set of pipes of the same kind and giving tones of the same quality.
- Also called stop knob. a knob or handle that is drawn out or pushed back to permit or prevent the sounding of such a set of pipes or to control some other part of the organ.
- (in a reed organ) a group of reeds functioning like a pipe-organ stop.
- Sportan individual defensive play or act that prevents an opponent or opposing team from scoring, advancing, or gaining an advantage, as a catch in baseball, a tackle in football, or the deflection of a shot in hockey.
- Nautical, Naval Termsa piece of small line used to lash or fasten something, as a furled sail.
- Phonetics
- an articulation that interrupts the flow of air from the lungs.
- a consonant sound characterized by stop articulation, as p, b, t, d, k, and g. Cf. continuant.
- Photographythe diaphragm opening of a lens, esp. as indicated by an f- number.
- Building
- See stop bead.
- doorstop (def. 2).
- any of various marks used as punctuation at the end of a sentence, esp. a period.
- the word "stop'' printed in the body of a telegram or cablegram to indicate a period.
- Games stops, (used with a sing. v.) a family of card games whose object is to play all of one's cards in a predetermined sequence before one's opponents.
- Zoologya depression in the face of certain animals, esp. dogs, marking the division between the forehead and the projecting part of the muzzle. See diag. under dog.
- pull out all the stops:
- to use every means available.
- to express, do, or carry out something without reservation.
- Greek stýppē
- bef. 1000; Middle English stoppen (verb, verbal), Old English -stoppian (in forstoppian to stop up); cognate with Dutch, Low German stoppen, German stopfen; all Vulgar Latin *stuppāre to plug with oakum, derivative of Latin stuppa coarse hemp or flax
stop′less, adj. stop′less•ness, n. - 3.See corresponding entry in Unabridged 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 complete restraint:to arrest development.Check implies bringing about an abrupt, partial, or temporary stop:to check a trotting horse.To halt means to make a temporary stop, esp. one resulting from a command:to halt a company of soldiers.
- 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged thwart, obstruct, impede.
- 16.See corresponding entry in Unabridged quit.
- 26.See corresponding entry in Unabridged halt; termination.
- 28.See corresponding entry in Unabridged terminal.
- 33.See corresponding entry in Unabridged governor.
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged –3. start.
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