stop

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

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