stop

Meanings

Verb

• To cease moving.
• To not continue.
• To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
• To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
• To cause (something) to come to an end.
• To close or block an opening.
• To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
• To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
• To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
• To punctuate.
• To make fast; to stopper.
• To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
• To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.

Noun

• A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
• An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
• That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
• A device intended to block the path of a moving object
• 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.
• A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
• One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
• A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
• A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
• The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
• A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
• A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
• An f-stop.
• The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
• A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
• A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
• The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

Related

Opposite words

• continue, go, move, proceed
• continue, proceed
• continue, move

Narrower meaning words

• forstop
• stop by
• stop cock
• stop down
• stop in
• stop off
• stop out
• stop over
• stop up
• unstop

Origin

• From Middle English stoppen, stoppien, from Old English stoppian, from Proto-West Germanic *stuppōn, from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn, *stuppijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, *(s)tewb-, from *(s)tew-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian stopje ("to stop, block"), West Frisian stopje ("to stop"), Dutch stoppen ("to stop"), Low German stoppen ("to stop"), German stopfen ("to be filling, stuff"), German stoppen ("to stop"), Danish stoppe ("to stop"), Swedish stoppa ("to stop"), Icelandic stoppa ("to stop"), Middle High German stupfen, stüpfen. More at stuff, stump.
• Alternate etymology derives Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn from an assumed Vulgar Latin *stūpāre, *stuppāre, from stūpa, stīpa, stuppa, from Ancient Greek στύπη, στύππη. This derivation, however, is doubtful, as the earliest instances of the Germanic verb do not carry the meaning of "stuff, stop with tow". Rather, these senses developed later in response to influence from similar sounding words in Latin and Romance.
• From Middle English stoppe, from Old English stoppa ("bucket, pail, a stop"), from Proto-Germanic *stuppô ("vat, vessel"), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teub- ("to push, hit; stick, stump"). See stoup.
• Cognate with Norwegian stopp, stoppa, Middle High German stubech, stübich (German Stübchen). Related also to Middle Low German stōp ("beaker, flask"), Middle High German stouf ("beaker, flask"), Norwegian staupa ("goblet"), Icelandic staupa ("shot-glass"), Old English stēap ("a stoup, beaker, drinking vessel, cup, flagon"). Cognate to Albanian shtambë ("amphora, bucket").
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