Stop
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English
Adverb
Stop (not comparable)
- Prone to halting or hesitation.
Noun
Stop (plural Stops)- A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object; as, a door stop.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- Short for a stopper, used in the phrase 'pull out all the stops'.
- (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
Verb
Stop (third-person singular simple present Stops, present participle stopping, simple past and past participle stopped)
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) To come to an end.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (intransitive) To stay a while.
- (intransitive) To tarry.
Adjectives for Stop
sudden; tender; multiple; occasional; traffic; express; surprising.
Adverbs for Stop
abruptly; suddenly; instantaneously; instinctively; imperiously; constantly; effectually; timorously; virtually.
Synonyms
- (to cease moving): brake, desist, halt
- (to come to an end): cease, desist, discontinue, halt, terminate
- (to cause to cease moving): cancel, cease, discontinue, halt, terminate
- (to cause to come to an end): cancel, cease, discontinue, halt, terminate
Antonyms
- (to cease moving): continue, go, move, proceed
- (to come to an end): continue, proceed
- (to cause to cease moving): continue, move
- (to cause to come to an end): continue, move
Thesaurus
abandon, abjure, abort, afterthought, alveolar, anchorage, arrest, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, awe, baffle, ban, bar, barricade, barrier, bassoon, bearing rein, beat off, belay, bell, bilabial, bind, bit, blank wall, blind alley, blind gut, block, block flute, block up, blockade, blockage, blocking, bombard, bottleneck, boundary, box, brake, break, break of, break off, break the habit, bring to, bring up, bring up short, bung, bureaucratic delay, cacuminal, caesura, call on, call upon, calm, calm down, cancel, caulk, cease, cease fire, cecum, cello, cerebral, cessation, chain, check, check valve, checkmate, checkrein, chink, chock, choke, choke off, choke up, choking, choking off, claribel, clarinet, clarion, clog, clog up, close, close off, close up, closing, closing up, cock, colon, come off, come up short, comma, concert flute, conclude, conclusion, confine, congest, congestion, consonant, constipate, constipation, continuant, cork, corner, cornet, counter, countercheck, cover, cromorna, cul-de-sac, curb, curb bit, cure, cushion, cut it out, cut off, cut out, cut short, cutoff, cymbel, dam, dam up, damp, dampen, damper, daunt, dead end, dead set, dead stand, dead stop, dead-end street, deaden, deadlock, deafen, debarment, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, dental, depot, desist, desist from, desistance, destination, detain, detention, deter, determent, determine, deterrence, diacritical mark, diapason, die down, diphthong, disaccustom, discontinuance, discontinue, discourage, discouragement, dishearten, dissimilation, disuse, doorstop, double take, drag, drag sail, dragging, draw rein, draw up, drift anchor, drift sail, drive back, drogue, drop, drop in, drop it, dulciana, dull, dwindle, dying down, ebb, ebbing, embolism, embolus, end, end stop, endgame, ending, epenthetic vowel, estoppel, explosive, extremity, faucet, faze, fence, fend, fend off, fetch up, fetter, fill, fill up, final whistle, finish, finish up, flute stop, forbiddance, foreclosure, forestalling, forswear, foul, foundation stop, fourniture, freeze, glottal, goal, gorge, grinding halt, gun, guttural, halt, hang fire, hang-up, harbor, harmonic flute, have done with, haven, hinder, hindrance, hold, hold at bay, hold back, hold off, hold up, holdback, holdup, hole, hybrid stop, impasse, impede, impediment, infarct, infarction, interim, interrupt, jam, jam up, juncture, keep at bay, keep back, keep off, kick, knock it off, koppel flute, labial, lag, lagging, larigot, laryngeal, last stop, lateral, lay off, lay over, layover, leave off, let go, lid, lingual, liquid, lock, lockout, lodge, logjam, look in, lull, make late, manner of articulation, martingale, melodia, mixture, modification, molder, monophthong, moratorium, morphophoneme, muffle, mutation stop, mute, nasal, nazard, nol-pros, not pursue with, oboe, obstacle, obstruct, obstruction, obviation, occlusive, octave, organ stop, overawe, pacify, pack, pack in, palatal, paperasserie, parasitic vowel, parry, pause, pay a visit, peak, peg, pelham, period, perorate, peter out, pharyngeal, phone, phoneme, piccolo, pin, plein jeu, plosive, plug, plug up, point, port, posaune, preclusion, prevent, prevention, principal, prohibition, prothetic vowel, pull up, punctuation, punctuation marks, push back, put back, put behind one, put paid to, put up, quiesce, quiet, quieten, quint, quintaten, quit, rank, ranket, rebuff, reed stop, reference, reference mark, refrain, refrain from, register, relinquish, remora, renounce, repel, reprieve, repulse, resign, resolve, respite, rest, restrain, retard, retardance, retardation, retroflex, roadblock, rohr flute, run in, scotch, scrap, scratch, scrub, sea anchor, sea cock, sealing off, see, segmental phoneme, semicolon, semivowel, shackle, shake, shawm, sit-down strike, slacken, slow, slow down, slow-up, slowdown, slowness, snaffle, soft-pedal, soften, sojourn, sonority, soothe, speech sound, spigot, spike, spile, spill, spitz flute, spoke, stage, stalemate, stall, stanch, stand, standoff, standstill, station, staunch, stave off, stay, stem, stench, stick, stillstand, stop by, stop cold, stop dead, stop off, stop over, stop short, stop up, stop-off, stopgap, stopover, stoppage, stopped diapason, stopped flute, stopper, stopping, stopping place, stopple, strangulation, strike, string diapason, string stop, stuff, stuff up, stymie, subdue, subside, subsidence, suppress, surd, suspension, swear off, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, take a break, take the pledge, tap, tarry, terminal, terminal point, terminate, termination, terminus, throw off, thwart, tie-up, tierce, time lag, tittle, tone down, trammel, tranquilize, tremolo, trombone, trumpet, turn aside, twelfth, valve, velar, vibrato, viola, visit, vocable, vocalic, voice, voicing, vowel, wait, waive, walkout, wall, wane, waning, ward off, wean, wind up, work stoppage
