ALL meanings of stop
stop
S s - verb stop to staunch or stem 0
- verb stop to instruct a bank not to honour (a cheque) 0
- verb stop to deduct (money) from pay 0
- verb stop to provide with punctuation 0
- verb stop to beat (an opponent) either by a knockout or a technical knockout 0
- verb stop to receive (a blow, hit, etc) 0
- verb stop to stay or rest 0
- verb stop to defeat, beat, or kill 0
- verb stop to alter the vibrating length of (a string on a violin, guitar, etc) by pressing down on it at some point with the finger 0
- verb stop to alter the vibrating length of an air column in a wind instrument by closing (a finger hole, etc) 0
- verb stop to produce (a note) in this manner 0
- verb stop 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 manner 0
- verb stop to have a protecting card or winner in (a suit in which one's opponents are strong) 0
- noun stop an arrest of movement or progress 0
- noun stop the act of stopping or the state of being stopped 0
- noun stop a place where something halts or pauses 0
- noun stop a stay in or as if in the course of a journey 0
- noun stop the act or an instance of blocking or obstructing 0
- noun stop a plug or stopper 0
- noun stop a block, screw, or other device or object that prevents, limits, or terminates the motion of a mechanism or moving part 0
- noun stop a punctuation mark, esp a full stop 0
- noun stop a counterthrust made without a parry in the hope that one's blade will touch before one's opponent's blade 0
- noun stop the act of stopping the string, finger hole, etc, of an instrument 0
- noun stop 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 0
- noun stop a knob, lever, or handle on an organ, etc, that is operated to allow sets of pipes to sound 0
- noun stop an analogous device on a harpsichord or other instrument with variable registers, such as an electrophonic instrument 0
- noun stop a stud on a football boot 0
- noun stop the angle between the forehead and muzzle of a dog or cat, regarded as a point in breeding 0
- noun stop a short length of line or small stuff used as a tie, esp for a furled sail 0
- noun stop any of a class of consonants articulated by first 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) 0
- noun stop a setting of the aperture of a camera lens, calibrated to the corresponding f-number 0
- noun stop a block or carving used to complete the end of a moulding 0
- noun stop a protecting card or winner in a suit in which one's opponents are strong 0
- verb transitive stop to staunch (a cut, wound, etc.) 0
- verb transitive stop to block up (a passage, road, pipe, etc.) so as to make impassable; obstruct 0
- verb transitive stop to fill in, plug up, or cover (a hole, cavity, opening, mouth, etc.) 0
- verb transitive stop to close (a bottle, jug, etc.) as with a cork or cap 0
- verb transitive stop to close (a finger hole of a wind instrument) so as to produce a desired tone 0
- verb transitive stop to produce (a tone) in this way 0
- verb transitive stop to prevent the passage or further passage of (water, light, etc.); block; intercept 0
- verb transitive stop to prevent the movement or further movement of 0
- verb transitive stop to halt the progress of (a person, animal, vehicle, etc.) 0
- verb transitive stop to check (a blow, stroke, or thrust); parry; counter 0
- verb transitive stop to defeat (an opponent) 0
- verb transitive stop to intercept (a letter, etc.) in transit 0
- verb transitive stop to baffle; perplex; nonplus 0
- verb transitive stop to cease; desist from (with a gerund) 0
- verb transitive stop to cause to cease or end 0
- verb transitive stop to bring to an end; discontinue 0
- verb transitive stop to kill 0