stop

come to a halt, stop moving

• “the car stopped”
• “She stopped in front of a store window”

put an end to a state or an activity

• “Quit teasing your little brother”

stop from happening or developing

• “Block his election”
• “Halt the process”

interrupt a trip

• “we stopped at Aunt Mary”
• “;”

cause to stop

• “stop a car”
• “stop the thief”

prevent completion

• “stop the project”
• “break off the negociations”

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 South East Asia”
• “Contain the rebel movement”
• “Turn back the tide of communism”

seize on its way

• “The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country”

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”

render unsuitable for passage

• “block the way”
• “barricade the streets”
• “stop the busy road”

stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments

• “Hold on a moment!”

the event of something ending

• “it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill”

the act of stopping something

• “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

• “they made a stopover to visit their friends”

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”

a spot where something halts or pauses

• “his next stop is Atlanta”

a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

• “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

• “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

• “the organist pulled out all the stops”

a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens

• “the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically”

a restraint that checks the motion of something

• “he used a book as a stop to hold the door open”

an obstruction in a pipe or tube

• “we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe”