stop
Put an end to a state or an activity.
Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments.
Interrupt a trip.
“we stopped at Aunt Mary's house”
“they stopped for three days in Florence”
Seize on its way.
Come to a halt, stop moving.
“the car stopped”
“She stopped in front of a store window”
Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of.
Cause to stop.
“stop a car”
“stop the thief”
Prevent completion.
“stop the project”
Stop from happening or developing.
Render unsuitable for passage.
“stop the busy road”
Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.
“Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other”
A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens.
A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it.
“his stop consonants are too aspirated”
The event of something ending.
“it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill”
A brief stay in the course of a journey.
“they made a stopover to visit their friends”
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”
An obstruction in a pipe or tube.
A spot where something halts or pauses.
“his next stop is Atlanta”
(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”
The act of stopping something.
“the third baseman made some remarkable stops”
“his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood”
The state of inactivity following an interruption.
“he spent the entire stop in his seat”
A restraint that checks the motion of something.
“he used a book as a stop to hold the door open”