1. (

• stop ,
• halt

) the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill" ;

2. (

• stop ,
• stoppage

) the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood" ;

3. (

• stop ,
• stopover ,
• layover

) a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends" ;

4. (

• arrest ,
• check ,
• halt ,
• hitch ,
• stay ,
• stop ,
• stoppage

) 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" ;

5. (

• stop

) a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta" ;

6. (

• stop_consonant ,
• stop ,
• occlusive ,
• plosive_consonant ,
• plosive_speech_sound ,
• plosive

) a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated" ;

7. (

• period ,
• point ,
• full_stop ,
• stop ,
• full_point

) 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" ;

8. (

• 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" ;

9. (

• diaphragm ,
• stop ,

) a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically" ;

10. (

• catch ,
• stop

) a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open" ;

11. (

• blockage ,
• block ,
• closure ,
• occlusion ,
• stop ,
• stoppage

) an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" ;

1. (

• stop ,
• halt ,

) come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" ;

2. (

• discontinue ,
• stop ,
• cease ,
• give_up ,
• quit ,
• lay_off

) put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" ;

3. (

• stop ,
• halt ,
• block ,
• kibosh

) stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process" ;

4. (

• stop ,
• stop_over

) interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence" ;

5. (

• stop ,

) cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief" ;

6. (

• break ,
• break_off ,
• discontinue ,
• stop ,

) prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" ;

7. (

• check ,
• turn_back ,
• arrest ,
• stop ,
• contain ,
• hold_back

) 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" ;

8. (

• intercept ,
• stop

) seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace" ;

9. (

• end ,
• stop ,
• finish ,
• terminate ,
• cease ,

) 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" ;

10. (

• barricade ,
• block ,
• blockade ,
• stop ,
• block_off ,
• block_up ,
• bar

) render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" ;

11. (

• hold_on ,
• stop ,

) stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!" ;