Definitions for stop

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IPA: /stɒp/

Stop is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in stop (opst).

Definitions for stop

noun

1. the act of stopping.
2. a cessation or arrest of movement, action, operation, etc.; end:
3. a stay or sojourn made at a place, as in the course of a journey:
4. a place where trains or other vehicles halt to take on and discharge passengers:
5. a closing or filling up, as of a hole.
6. a blocking or obstructing, as of a passage or channel.
7. a plug or other stopper for an opening.
8. an obstacle, impediment, or hindrance.
9. any piece or device that serves to check or control movement or action in a mechanism.
10. Architecture. a feature terminating a molding or chamfer.
11. Commerce. an order to refuse payment of a check. stop order.
12. Music. the act of closing a fingerhole or pressing a string of an instrument in order to produce a particular note. a device or contrivance, as on an instrument, for accomplishing this. (in an organ) a graduated set of pipes of the same kind and giving tones of the same quality. Also called stop knob. a knob or handle that is drawn out or pushed back to permit or prevent the sounding of such a set of pipes or to control some other part of the organ. (in a reed organ) a group of reeds functioning like a pipe-organ stop.
13. Sports. an individual defensive play or act that prevents an opponent or opposing team from scoring, advancing, or gaining an advantage, as a catch in baseball, a tackle in football, or the deflection of a shot in hockey.
14. Nautical. a piece of small line used to lash or fasten something, as a furled sail.
15. Phonetics. an articulation that interrupts the flow of air from the lungs. a consonant sound characterized by stop articulation, as p, b, t, d, k, and g. Compare continuant.
16. Photography. the diaphragm opening of a lens, especially as indicated by an f- number.
17. Building Trades. stop bead. doorstop (def 2).
18. any of various marks used as punctuation at the end of a sentence, especially a period.
19. the word “stop” printed in the body of a telegram or cablegram to indicate a period.
20. stops, (used with a singular verb) a family of card games whose object is to play all of one's cards in a predetermined sequence before one's opponents.
21. Zoology. a depression in the face of certain animals, especially dogs, marking the division between the forehead and the projecting part of the muzzle.

Idioms

1. pull out all the stops, to use every means available. to express, do, or carry out something without reservation.

Verb phrases

1. stop down, Photography. (on a camera) to reduce (the diaphragm opening of a lens).
2. stop in, to make a brief, incidental visit:
3. stop off, to halt for a brief stay at some point on the way elsewhere:
4. stop out, to mask (certain areas of an etching plate, photographic negative, etc.) with varnish, paper, or the like, to prevent their being etched, printed, etc. to withdraw temporarily from school:
5. stop over, to stop briefly in the course of a journey:

verb (used with object)

1. to cease from, leave off, or discontinue:
2. to cause to cease; put an end to:
3. to interrupt, arrest, or check (a course, proceeding, process, etc.):
4. to cut off, intercept, or withhold:
5. to restrain, hinder, or prevent (usually followed by from):
6. to prevent from proceeding, acting, operating, continuing, etc.:
7. to block, obstruct, or close (a passageway, channel, opening, duct, etc.) (usually followed by up):
8. to fill the hole or holes in (a wall, a decayed tooth, etc.).
9. to close (a container, tube, etc.) with a cork, plug, bung, or the like.
10. to close the external orifice of (the ears, nose, mouth, etc.).
11. Sports. to check (a stroke, blow, etc.); parry; ward off. to defeat (an opposing player or team): Boxing. to defeat by a knockout or technical knockout:
12. Banking. to notify a bank to refuse payment of (a check) upon presentation.
13. Bridge. to have an honor card and a sufficient number of protecting cards to keep an opponent from continuing to win in (a suit).
14. Music. to close (a fingerhole) in order to produce a particular note from a wind instrument. to press down (a string of a violin, viola, etc.) in order to alter the pitch of the tone produced from it. to produce (a particular note) by so doing.

verb (used without object)

1. to come to a stand, as in a course or journey; halt.
2. to cease moving, proceeding, speaking, acting, operating, etc.; to pause; desist.
3. to cease; come to an end.
4. to halt for a brief visit (often followed by at, in, or by):
5. stop by, to make a brief visit on one's way elsewhere:

Origin of stop

before 1000; Middle English stoppen (v.), Old English -stoppian (in forstoppian to stop up); cognate with Dutch, Low German stoppen, German stopfen; all ≪ Vulgar Latin *stuppāre to plug with

Examples for stop

stop for us at the Laurels, about eleven, or p'r'aps I'll stroll over and get you.

The men were accused of reneging on pledges to stop working for the Iraqi government.

Has L.A. figured out how to stop the epidemic it set loose on the world?

To the porter who answered his ring he handed the message to be put off at the first stop.

But did you ever stop to think what happens when you write a letter?

But I think Steve Austin has to team up with a Japanese holdout to stop a nuclear bomb from going off or something.

That ground hold was to stop you flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.

I'd worked wid my mouf full of dust, but could not stop to get a drink of water.

Thankfully there were no casualties—the driver managed to stop the train immediately.

stop her—say Miss Milbrey wishes to ask a favour of her; and Jarvis.