stop
- Adverb. Prone to halting or hesitation.
- Noun. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off.
- Noun. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- Noun. A device intended to block the path of a moving object; as, a door stop.
- Noun. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- Noun. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- Noun. Short for a stopper, used in the phrase 'pull out all the stops'.
- Noun. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
- Noun. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
- Noun. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- Noun. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- Noun. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- Noun. (photography) An f-stop.
- Verb. (intransitive) To cease moving.
- Verb. (intransitive) To come to an end.
- Verb. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- Verb. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- Verb. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- Verb. (transitive, intransitive) To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- Verb. (intransitive) To stay a while.
- Verb. (intransitive) To tarry.
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