Etymology : Middle English stoppen, from Old English -stoppian, from Vulgar Latin stuppare to stop with tow, from Latin stuppa tow, from Greek styppE
Pronunciation : stäp
Function : verb
Date : 13th century
1. cessation; end; visit; place at which someone or something stops; plug; obstacle, hindrance; lens aperture (Photography); device or movement that changes the sound of a note (Music). halt; cease, quit; close, plug; block; hinder, impede; prevent; delay; pause during a journey. stop\stop\ , v. t. [imp. & p. p. stopped ; p. pr. & vb. n. stopping.] [oe. stoppen, as. stoppian (in comp.); akin to lg. & d. stoppen, g. stopfen, icel. stoppa, sw. stoppa, dan. stoppe; all probably fr. ll. stopare, stupare, fr. l. stuppa the coarse part of flax, tow, oakum. cf. estop, stuff, stupe a fomentation.].
2. to close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
3. to obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
4. to arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.
5. to hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity. whose disposition all the world well knows will not be rubbed nor stopped.
6. (mus.) to regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.
7. to point, as a composition; to punctuate. [r.] if his sentences were properly stopped.
8. (naut.) to make fast; to stopper.
9. stop.
10. To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
11. To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
12. To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.
13. To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.
14. To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.
15. To point, as a composition; to punctuate.
16. To make fast; to stopper.
17. To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.
18. To cease from any motion, or course of action.
19. To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
20. The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.
21. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.
22. A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
23. The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.
24. In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.
25. A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
26. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate.
27. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.
28. A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation.
29. See Punctuation.
30. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
31. The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones.
32. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.
33. Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose , or so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed. a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends" the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood" a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes; "the organist pulled out all the stops" the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill" a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta" cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief" come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence" stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process".
34. Stop!. Stop! stop etmek to stop, come to a stop.
35. stop.
36. 1. If you have been doing something and then you stop doing it, you no longer do it. He can't stop thinking about it I've been told to lose weight and stop smoking I stopped working last year to have a baby Does either of the parties want to stop the fighting? She stopped in mid-sentence.
37. If you stop something happening, you prevent it from happening or prevent it from continuing. He proposed a new diplomatic initiative to try to stop the war If the fire isn't stopped, it could spread to 25,000 acres I think she really would have liked to stop us seeing each other Motherhood won't stop me from pursuing my acting career.
38. If an activity or process stops, it is no longer happening. The rain had stopped and a star or two was visible over the mountains The system overheated and filming had to stop.
39. If something such as machine stops or is stopped, it is no longer moving or working. The clock had stopped at 2.12 a.m Arnold stopped the engine and got out of the car.
40. When a moving person or vehicle stops or is stopped, they no longer move and they remain in the same place. The car failed to stop at an army checkpoint He stopped and let her catch up with him The event literally stopped the traffic = halt.
41. If something that is moving comes to a stop or is brought to a stop, it slows down and no longer moves. People often wrongly open doors before the train has come to a stop He slowed the car almost to a stop. = halt.
42. If someone does not stop to think or to explain, they continue with what they are doing without taking any time to think about or explain it. She doesn't stop to think about what she's saying There is something rather strange about all this if one stops to consider it People who lead busy lives have no time to stop and reflect. = pause.
43. If you say that a quality or state stops somewhere, you mean that it exists or is true up to that point, but no further. The cafe owner has put up the required `no smoking' signs, but thinks his responsibility stops there = end.
44. A stop is a place where buses or trains regularly stop so that people can get on and off. They waited at a bus stop.
45. If you stop somewhere on a journey, you stay there for a short while. He insisted we stop at a small restaurant just outside of Atlanta.
46. A stop is a time or place at which you stop during a journey. The last stop in Mr Cook's lengthy tour was Paris.
47. In music, organ stops are the knobs at the side of the organ, which you pull or push in order to control the type of sound that comes out of the pipes.
48. emphasis If you say that someone will stop at nothing to get something, you are emphasizing that they are willing to do things that are extreme, wrong, or dangerous in order to get it. Their motive is money, and they will stop at nothing to get it.
49. If you pull out all the stops, you do everything you can to make something happen or succeed. New Zealand police vowed yesterday to pull out all the stops to find the killer.
50. If you put a stop to something that you do not like or approve of, you prevent it from happening or continuing. His daughter should have stood up and put a stop to all these rumours.
51. If you say that someone does not know when to stop, you mean that they do not control their own behaviour very well and so they often annoy or upset other people. Like many politicians before him, Mr Bentley did not know when to stop.
52. to stop dead: see:
dead to stop short of: see short to stop someone in their tracks: see track.
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