Definitions For Stop

noun

• A gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
• A brief stay in the course of a journey
• The act of stopping something
• An obstruction in a pipe or tube
• A restraint that checks the motion of something
• A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
• (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
• A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
• A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
• The event of something ending
• A spot where something halts or pauses
• The state of inactivity following an interruption

verb

• Prevent completion
• Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
• Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
• Seize on its way
• Render unsuitable for passage
• Cause to stop
• Come to a halt, stop moving
• Interrupt a trip
• Stop from happening or developing
• Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
• Put an end to a state or an activity
• To not move, walk, etc., after doing so before
• To cause (someone or something) to not move, walk, etc., after doing so before
• To not do something that you have been doing before : to not continue doing something