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verb (used with object)
1.
to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
2.
to cause to cease; put an end to: to stop noise in the street.
3.
to interrupt, arrest, or check (a course, proceeding, process, etc.): Stop your work just a minute.
4.
to cut off, intercept, or withhold: to stop supplies.
5.
EXPANDto restrain, hinder, or prevent (usually followed by from): I couldn't stop him from going.
6.
to prevent from proceeding, acting, operating, continuing, etc.: to stop a speaker; to stop a car.
7.
to block, obstruct, or close (a passageway, channel, opening, duct, etc.) (usually followed by up): He stopped up the sink with a paper towel. He stopped the hole in the tire with a patch.
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.
a.
to check (a stroke, blow, etc.); parry; ward off.
b.
to defeat (an opposing player or team): The Browns stopped the Colts.
c.
Boxing. to defeat by a knockout or technical knockout: Louis stopped Conn in the 13th round.
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.
COLLAPSEMusic.
a.
to close (a fingerhole) in order to produce a particular note from a wind instrument.
b.
to press down (a string of a violin, viola, etc.) in order to alter the pitch of the tone produced from it.
c.
to produce (a particular note) by so doing.
verb (used without object)
15.
to come to a stand, as in a course or journey; halt.
16.
to cease moving, proceeding, speaking, acting, operating, etc.; to pause; desist.
17.
to cease; come to an end.
18.
to halt for a brief visit (often followed by at, in, or by): He is stopping at the best hotel in town.
19.
stop by, to make a brief visit on one's way elsewhere: I'll stop by on my way home.
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Stopped
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So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
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noun
Verb phrases20.
the act of stopping.
21.
a cessation or arrest of movement, action, operation, etc.; end: The noise came to a stop. Put a stop to that behavior!
22.
a stay or sojourn made at a place, as in the course of a journey: Above all, he enjoyed his stop in Trieste.
23.
a place where trains or other vehicles halt to take on and discharge passengers: Is this a bus stop?
24.
EXPANDa closing or filling up, as of a hole.
25.
a blocking or obstructing, as of a passage or channel.
26.
a plug or other stopper for an opening.
27.
an obstacle, impediment, or hindrance.
28.
any piece or device that serves to check or control movement or action in a mechanism.
29.
Architecture. a feature terminating a molding or chamfer.
30.
31.
Music.
a.
the act of closing a fingerhole or pressing a string of an instrument in order to produce a particular note.
b.
a device or contrivance, as on an instrument, for accomplishing this.
c.
(in an organ) a graduated set of pipes of the same kind and giving tones of the same quality.
d.
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.
e.
(in a reed organ) a group of reeds functioning like a pipe-organ stop.
32.
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.
33.
Nautical. a piece of small line used to lash or fasten something, as a furled sail.
34.
Phonetics.
a.
an articulation that interrupts the flow of air from the lungs.
b.
35.
Photography. the diaphragm opening of a lens, especially as indicated by an f- number.
36.
37.
any of various marks used as punctuation at the end of a sentence, especially a period.
38.
the word “stop” printed in the body of a telegram or cablegram to indicate a period.
39.
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.
40.
COLLAPSEZoology. a depression in the face of certain animals, especially dogs, marking the division between the forehead and the projecting part of the muzzle.
41.
stop down, Photography. (on a camera) to reduce (the diaphragm opening of a lens).
42.
stop in, to make a brief, incidental visit: If you're in town, be sure to stop in.
43.
stop off, to halt for a brief stay at some point on the way elsewhere: On the way to Rome we stopped off at Florence.
44.
stop out,
a.
to mask (certain areas of an etching plate, photographic negative, etc.) with varnish, paper, or the like, to prevent their being etched, printed, etc.
b.
to withdraw temporarily from school: Most of the students who stop out eventually return to get their degrees.
45.
Idiomstop over, to stop briefly in the course of a journey: Many motorists were forced to stop over in that town because of floods.
46.
pull out all the stops,
a.
to use every means available.
b.
to express, do, or carry out something without reservation.
Origin:
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 oakum, derivative of Latin stuppa coarse hemp or flax < Greek stýppē
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 oakum, derivative of Latin stuppa coarse hemp or flax < Greek stýppē
Related forms
stop·less, adjective
stop·less·ness, noun
mul·ti·stop, adjective
Synonyms
3. Stop, arrest, check, halt imply causing a cessation of movement or progress (literal or figurative). Stop is the general term for the idea: to stop a clock. Arrest usually refers to stopping by imposing a sudden and complete restraint: to arrest development. Check implies bringing about an abrupt, partial, or temporary stop: to check a trotting horse. To halt means to make a temporary stop, especially one resulting from a command: to halt a company of soldiers. 5. thwart, obstruct, impede. 16. quit. 21. halt; termination. 23. terminal. 28. governor.
3. Stop, arrest, check, halt imply causing a cessation of movement or progress (literal or figurative). Stop is the general term for the idea: to stop a clock. Arrest usually refers to stopping by imposing a sudden and complete restraint: to arrest development. Check implies bringing about an abrupt, partial, or temporary stop: to check a trotting horse. To halt means to make a temporary stop, especially one resulting from a command: to halt a company of soldiers. 5. thwart, obstruct, impede. 16. quit. 21. halt; termination. 23. terminal. 28. governor.
Antonyms
1–3. start.
1–3. start.
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Word Origin & History
stop
O.E. -stoppian (in forstoppian "to stop up, stifle"), along with M.L.G. stoppen, O.H.G. stopfon (Ger. stopfen) a W.Gmc. borrowing from V.L. *stuppare "to stop or stuff with tow or oakum" (cf. It. stoppare, Fr. étouper "to stop with tow"), from L. stuppa "coarse part of flax, tow." Plugs made of
EXPANDtow were used from ancient times in Rhine valley. Sense of "bring or come to a halt" (mid-15c.) is from notion of preventing a flow by blocking a hole, and the word's development in this sense is unique to English, though it since has been widely adopted in other languages; perhaps influenced by L. stupere "be stunned, be stupefied." The noun is first recorded late 15c. Stop-and-go (adj.) is from 1926.
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