eng: stop

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Meaning
means	(noun) the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill" stop, halt
means	(noun) the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood" stop, stoppage
means	(noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends" stop, layover, stopover
means	(noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" stop, hitch, stoppage, check, arrest, halt, stay
means	(noun) a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta" stop
means	(noun) a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated" stop, plosive consonant, stop consonant, plosive, occlusive, plosive speech sound
means	(noun) 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" stop, point, full stop, full point, period
means	(noun) (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" stop
means	(noun) a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically" diaphragm, stop
means	(noun) a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open" catch, stop
means	(noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" blockage, occlusion, stoppage, block, stop, closure
means	(verb) come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" halt, stop
means	(verb) put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" discontinue, give up, stop, quit, cease, lay off
means	(verb) stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process" kibosh, halt, block, stop
means	(verb) interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence" stop over, stop
means	(verb) cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief" stop
means	(verb) prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" break, stop, break off, discontinue
means	(verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism" stop, arrest, turn back, hold back, check, contain
means	(verb) seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace" intercept, stop
means	(verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" terminate, finish, cease, end, stop
means	(verb) render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" stop, block up, block, blockade, block off, bar, barricade
means	(verb) stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!" stop, hold on

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