stop

A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.

Noun

  1. A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
    • They agreed to meet at the bus stop.
  2. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
    • That stop was not planned.
    • It is […] doubtful […] whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection. - 1722, Daniel Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year:
    • Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy. - 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of...
  3. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
    • A fatal stop trauerst their headlong course - 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter]...
    • So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent. - a. 1729, John Rogers, The Advantages of conversing with good Men:
  4. A device intended to block the path of a moving object
    • door stop

    1. (engineering) 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.

    2. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.

  5. A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.

    Synonyms: plosive occlusive

  6. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
  7. A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
    • The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.
  8. 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.
  9. A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
  10. A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
    • 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...
  11. The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
    • The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.
  12. A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
    • 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.

Origin

From Middle English stoppen, stoppien, from Old English stoppian (“to stop, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn, from Proto-Germanic *stuppōną (“to stop, close”), *stuppijaną (“to push, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, *(s)tewb- (“to push; stick”), from *(s)tew- (“to bump; impact; butt; push; beat; strike; hit”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian stopje (“to stop, block”), West Frisian stopje (“to stop”), Dutch stoppen (“to stop”), Low German stoppen (“to stop”), German stopfen (“to be filling, stuff”), German stoppen (“to stop”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål stoppe (“to stop”), Icelandic, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish stoppa (“to stop”), Middle High German stupfen, stüpfen (“to pierce”). More at stuff, stump. Alternative etymology derives Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn from an assumed Vulgar Latin *stūpāre, *stuppāre (“to stop up with tow”), from stūpa, stīpa,...

Forms

stops

Derived

8 stop 8-stop airstop all-way stop a quick drop and a sudden stop a short drop and a sudden stop backstop back-stop band-stop beamstop bookstop boulevard stop buffer stop bus stop buy-stop order buy stop order Californian stop California stop checkstop come to a stop comfort stop country stop dead stop doorstop

Noun UK, dialectal

  1. A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.

Origin

From Middle English stoppe, from Old English stoppa (“bucket, pail, a stop”), from Proto-Germanic *stuppô (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teub- (“to push, hit; stick, stump”). See stoup. Cognates Cognate with Norwegian stopp, stoppa (“deep well, recess”), Middle High German stubech, stübich (“barrel, vat, unit of measure”) (German Stübchen). Related also to Middle Low German stōp (“beaker, flask”), Middle High German stouf (“beaker, flask”), Norwegian staupa (“goblet”), Icelandic staupa (“shot-glass”), Old English stēap (“a stoup, beaker, drinking vessel, cup, flagon”). Cognate to Albanian shtambë (“amphora, bucket”).

Forms

stops

Noun natural sciences, physical sciences

  1. The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
    • 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,...

Origin

Etymology tree English s- English top English stop From s- + top.

Forms

stops

Punctuation

  1. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.

Verb

  1. To cease moving.
    • I stopped at the traffic lights.
  2. Not to continue.
    • The riots stopped when police moved in.
    • Soon the rain will stop.
    • 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...
  3. To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
    • 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.
    • 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...
  4. To cease; to no longer continue.
    • One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.

    Antonyms: keep

  5. To cause (something) to come to an end.
    • The referees stopped the fight.
  6. To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something. [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
    • Don't let me stop you working.
    • When they have finished the milk they must be patted and squeezed to stop them exploding. - 1988, Jeanne Willis, Tony Ross, Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets:
  7. To close or block an opening.
    • He stopped the wound with gauze.
    • Rotten leaves and branches have stopped the gutter.
    • I've had the cracks in the wall stopped with mortar by the builders.
  8. To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
    • To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.
  9. To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
    • to stop with a friend
    • He stopped for two weeks at the inn.
    • He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.
  10. To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
  11. To punctuate.
    • [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. - 1826, Walter Savage Landor,...
  12. To make fast; to stopper.

Forms

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Synonyms

brake desist halt blin cease discontinue terminate arrest freeze cancel hang about hang around linger loiter pause lodge stop over anchor astand draw up grind to a halt hold immobilize leave off

Antonyms

continue go move proceed accelerate set in motion

Hypernyms

decelerate

Hyponyms

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Derived

couldn't stop a pig in a passage does this train stop at double-stop earth-stopping face that would stop a clock go-stop heart-stopping if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging instop misstop plow-stop rain stopped play short-stop showstopping stap my vital stop a bullet stop-action stop and chop stop-and-frisk stop and frisk stop-and-go stop-and-go light stop and run stop-and-search