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Stop
English
- 🔊 a brief stay in the course of a journey“they made a stopover to visit their friends”
- 🔊 the act of stopping something“the third baseman made some remarkable stops”
- 🔊 (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 event of something ending“it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill”
- 🔊 a spot where something halts or pauses“his next stop is Atlanta”
- 🔊 a restraint that checks the motion of something“he used a book as a stop to hold the door open”
- 🔊 a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens“the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically”
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 an obstruction in a pipe or tube“we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe”
- 🔊 the state of inactivity following an interruption“the negotiations were in arrest”
- 🔊 cause to stop“stop a car”
- 🔊 come to a halt, stop moving“the car stopped”
- 🔊 interrupt a trip“we stopped at Aunt Mary's house”
- 🔊 stop from happening or developing“Block his election”
- 🔊 stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments“Hold on a moment!”
- 🔊 seize on its way“The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace”
- 🔊 have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense“the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed”
- 🔊 put an end to a state or an activity“Quit teasing your little brother”
- 🔊 prevent completion“stop the project”
- 🔊 hold back, as of a danger or an enemy“Arrest the downward trend”
- 🔊 render unsuitable for passage“block the way”
Spanish
- 🔊 oclusiva stop
- 🔊 stop stop
- 🔊 chantar to stop
- 🔊 alto stop, halt
- 🔊 parar to stop, halt
- 🔊 detener to stop, halt, to pause
- 🔊 pare stop, an act of stopping
- 🔊 escampar to stop, to cease (doing)
- 🔊 tope stop, catch, snag (also figuratively)
- 🔊 jo stop, whoa (especially when commanding a horse or imitative thereof)
- 🔊 retén stop, gasket, seal (part to prevent the escape of a fluid or lubrication)