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verbput an end to a state or an activity
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nounan obstruction in a pipe or tubetype of:
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"the third baseman made some remarkable stops" "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"nounthe act of stopping something
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"stop the project"verbprevent completion
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"he spent the entire stop in his seat"nounthe state of inactivity following an interruptiontype of:
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verbstop from happening or developing
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"stop the busy road"verbrender unsuitable for passage
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"he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"nouna restraint that checks the motion of something
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"Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"verbhave an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
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verbstop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
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"we stopped at Aunt Mary's house" "they stopped for three days in Florence"verbinterrupt a trip
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nouna mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
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"his stop consonants are too aspirated"nouna consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing ittype of:
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"the car stopped" "She stopped in front of a store window"verbcome to a halt, stop moving
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"it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"nounthe event of something ending
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"they made a stopover to visit their friends"nouna brief stay in the course of a journeytype of:
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"in England they call a period a stop"nouna punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
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verbhold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence oftype of:
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"his next stop is Atlanta"nouna spot where something halts or pausestype of:
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"stop a car" "stop the thief"verbcause to stopOpposite:
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"the organist pulled out all the stops"noun(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipestype of:part of:
Examples of stop
- "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"
- "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
- "stop the project"
- "he spent the entire stop in his seat"
- "stop the busy road"
- "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
- "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"
- "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"
- "they stopped for three days in Florence"
- "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
- "the car stopped"
- "She stopped in front of a store window"
- "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
- "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
- "in England they call a period a stop"
- "his next stop is Atlanta"
- "stop a car"
- "stop the thief"
- "the organist pulled out all the stops"