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Webster 1913 Edition

Stop

Stop

,
Verb.
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.]
1.
To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing;
as, to
stop
the ears
; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
Shak.
2.
To obstruct; to render impassable;
as, to
stop
a way, road, or passage
.
3.
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
.
4.
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
.
Shakespeare
5.
(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.
6.
To point, as a composition; to punctuate.
[R.]
If his sentences were properly
stopped
.
Landor.
7.
(Naut.)
To make fast; to stopper.
Syn. – To obstruct; hinder; impede; repress; suppress; restrain; discontinue; delay; interrupt.
To stop off
(Founding)
,
to fill (a part of a mold) with sand, where a part of the cavity left by the pattern is not wanted for the casting.
–
To stop the mouth
.
See under
Mouth
.

Stop

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.
He bites his lip, and starts;
Stops
on a sudden, looks upon the ground;
Then lays his finger on his temple: strait
Springs out into fast gait; then
stops
again.
Shakespeare
2.
To cease from any motion, or course of action.
Stop
, while ye may, suspend your mad career!
Cowper.
3.
To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry;
as, to
stop
with a friend
.
[Colloq.]
By
stopping
at home till the money was gone.
R. D. Blackmore.
To stop over
,
to stop at a station or airport beyond the time of the departure of the train or airplane on which one came, with the purpose of continuing one’s journey on a subsequent train or airplane; to break one's journey. See
stopover
,
Noun.

Stop

,
Noun.
1.
The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.
It is doubtful . . . whether it contributed anything to the
stop
of the infection.
De Foe.
Occult qualities put a
stop
to the improvement of natural philosophy.
Sir I. Newton.
It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this
stop
to them.
Locke.
2.
That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.
A fatal
stop
traversed their headlong course.
Daniel.
So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some
stop
to the rising torrent.
Rogers.
3.
(Mach.)
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.
4.
(Mus.)
(a)
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.
The organ sound a time survives the
stop
.
Daniel.
(b)
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.
5.
(Arch.)
A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.
6.
A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See
Punctuation
.
7.
(Opt.)
The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
8.
(Zool.)
The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.
9.
(Phonetics)
Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed
(a)
so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or
(b)
so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed.
H. Sweet.
Stop bead
(Arch.)
,
the molding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide.
–
Stop motion
(Mach.)
,
an automatic device for arresting the motion of a machine, as when a certain operation is completed, or when an imperfection occurs in its performance or product, or in the material which is supplied to it, etc.
–
Stop plank
,
one of a set of planks employed to form a sort of dam in some hydraulic works.
–
Stop valve
,
a valve that can be closed or opened at will, as by hand, for preventing or regulating flow, as of a liquid in a pipe; – in distinction from a valve which is operated by the action of the fluid it restrains.
–
Stop watch
,
a watch the hands of which can be stopped in order to tell exactly the time that has passed, as in timing a race. See
Independent seconds watch
, under
Independent
,
Adj.
Syn. – Cessation; check; obstruction; obstacle; hindrance; impediment; interruption.

Webster 1828 Edition

Stop

STOP

,
Verb.
T.
[G., to stop, to check, to pose, to fill, to cram, to stuff, to quilt, to darn, to mend. See Stifle. L., tow; to stuff, to crowd; to be stupefied, whence stupid, stupor, [that is, to stop, or a stop.] The primary sense is either to cease to move, or to stuff, to press, to thrust in, to cram; probably the latter.]
1.
To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop a vent; to stop the ears; to stop wells of water. 2 Kings 3.
2.
To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road or passage.
3.
To hinder; to impede; to arrest progress; as, to stop a passenger in the road; to stop the course of a stream.
4.
To restrain; to hinder; to suspend; as to stop the execution of a decree.
5.
To repress; to suppress; to restrain; as, to stop the progress of vice.
6.
To hinder; to check; as, to stop the approaches of old age or infirmity.
7.
To hinder from action or practice.
Whose disposition, all the world well knows, will not be rubbd nor stoppd.
8.
To put an end to any motion or action; to intercept; as, to stop the breath; to stop proceedings.
9.
To regulate the sounds of musical strings; as, to stop a string.
10.
In seamanship, to make fast.
11.
To point; as a written composition. [Not in use.]

STOP

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To cease to go forward.
Some strange commotion is in his brain; he bites his lip, and starts; stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground---
2.
To cease from any motion or course of action. When you are accustomed to a course of vice, it is very difficult to stop.
The best time to stop is at the beginning.

STOP

,
Noun.
1.
Cessation of progressive motion; as, to make a stop.
2.
Hindrance of progress; obstruction; act of stopping.
Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy--
3.
Repression; hindrance of operation or action.
It is a great step towards the mastery of our desires, to give this stop to them.
4.
Interruption.
These stops of thine fright me the more.
5.
Prohibition of sale; as the stop of wine and salt.
6.
That which obstructs; obstacle; impediment.
A fatal stop travesd their headlong course.
So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.
7.
The instrument by which the sounds of wind music are regulated; as the stops of a flute or an organ.
8.
Regulation of musical chords by the fingers.
In the stops of lutes, the higher they go, the less distance is between the frets.
9.
The act of applying the stops in music.
Th organ-sound a time survives the stop.
10.
A point or mark in writing, intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence or clauses, and to show the proper pauses in reading. The stops generally used, are the comma, semi-colon, colon and period. To these may be added the marks of interrogation and exclamation.

Definition 2024

Stop

Stop

See also: stop and stóp

German

Noun

Stop m ‎(genitive Stops, plural Stops)

  1. Obsolete spelling of Stopp

Declension

stop

stop

See also: Stop and stóp

English

Verb

stop ‎(third-person singular simple present stops, present participle stopping, simple past and past participle stopped)

  1. (intransitive) To cease moving.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
    I stopped at the traffic lights.‎
  2. (intransitive) To come to an end.
    The riots stopped when police moved in.‎
    Soon the rain will stop.‎
  3. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
    • 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
      A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. […] This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?
    The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.‎
    This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him.‎
  4. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
    The referees stopped the fight.‎
  5. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
    He stopped the wound with gauze.‎
  6. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
    To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.‎
  7. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
    to stop with a friend‎
    • R. D. Blackmore
      by stopping at home till the money was gone‎
    • 1931, E. F. Benson, Mapp & Lucia, chapter 7
      “She’s not going away. She’s going to stop here forever.”‎
    He stopped for two weeks at the inn.‎
  8. (intransitive) To tarry.
    He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.‎
  9. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
  10. (obsolete) To punctuate.
    • Landor
      if his sentences were properly stopped‎
  11. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
Usage notes
  • This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) to indicate the ending action, or the to infinitive to indicate the purpose of the interruption. See Appendix:English catenative verbs for more information.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

stop ‎(plural stops)

  1. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
    They agreed to see each other at the bus stop.‎
  2. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
    That stop was not planned.‎
    • De Foe
      It is doubtful […] whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection.‎
    • Sir Isaac Newton
      Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy.‎
    • John Locke
      It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them.‎
  3. A device intended to block the path of a moving object; as, a door stop.
  4. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis; a plosive.
  5. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
  6. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
    Pull out all the stops.‎
    • Daniel
      A fatal stop traversed their headlong course.‎
    • Rogers
      So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.‎
  7. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
  8. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
  9. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
    The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.‎
  10. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
  11. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
    The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.‎
  12. (photography) An f-stop.
  13. (engineering) 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.
  14. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
  15. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
References
  1. ↑ The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, "stop".

Adverb

stop ‎(not comparable)

  1. Prone to halting or hesitation.
    He’s stop still.‎

Interjection

stop

  1. halt! stop!
Translations

Punctuation

stop

  1. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.

Etymology 2

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”). Cognate with Norwegian stopp, stoppa ‎(“deep well, recess”), Middle High German stubech, stübich ‎(“barrel, vat, unit of measure”) (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”). See stoup.

Noun

stop ‎(plural stops)

  1. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.

Etymology 3

s- +‎ top

Adjective

stop ‎(not comparable)

  1. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
    • 2016, ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for pair production of gluinos decaying via stop and sbottom in events with -jets and large missing transverse momentum in collisions at TeV with the ATLAS detector”, in arXiv:
      For neutralino masses below approximately 700 GeV, gluino masses of less than 1.78 TeV and 1.76 TeV are excluded at the 95% CL in simplified models of the pair production of gluinos decaying via sbottom and stop, respectively.

Statistics

Most common English words before 1923: dress · degree · spoken · #918: stop · moral · mighty · Hart

Anagrams

Danish

Verb

stop

  1. imperative of stoppe

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔp
  • IPA(key): /stɔp/

Etymology

Borrowing from English stop.

Noun

stop m ‎(plural stoppen, diminutive stopje n)

  1. an action of stopping, cessation
  2. plug for a sink, a stopper
  3. electric fuse

Verb

stop

  1. first-person singular present indicative of stoppen
  2. imperative of stoppen

Anagrams

French

Etymology

1792. Borrowing from English stop.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɔp/

Noun

stop m ‎(uncountable)

  1. stop sign
  2. hitchhiking

Related terms

Anagrams

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowing from English stop.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈʃtopː]

Interjection

stop

  1. halt! stop!

Punctuation

stop

  1. stop (used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram)

Noun

stop ‎(plural stopok)

  1. (colloquial) stop sign (a red sign on the side of a street instructing vehicles to stop)
    Nem állt meg a stopnál.‎ ― He ran the stop sign.
  2. (colloquial) hitchhike (an act of hitchhiking, trying to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative stop stopok
accusative stopot stopokat
dative stopnak stopoknak
instrumental stoppal stopokkal
causal-final stopért stopokért
translative stoppá stopokká
terminative stopig stopokig
essive-formal stopként stopokként
essive-modal — —
inessive stopban stopokban
superessive stopon stopokon
adessive stopnál stopoknál
illative stopba stopokba
sublative stopra stopokra
allative stophoz stopokhoz
elative stopból stopokból
delative stopról stopokról
ablative stoptól stopoktól
Possessive forms of stop
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. stopom stopjaim
2nd person sing. stopod stopjaid
3rd person sing. stopja stopjai
1st person plural stopunk stopjaink
2nd person plural stopotok stopjaitok
3rd person plural stopjuk stopjaik

Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from English stop.

Interjection

stop!

  1. stop!, halt!

Noun

stop m ‎(plural stop)

  1. stop (roadsign; bus stop etc; block)

Anagrams

Latvian

Etymology

Borrowing from English stop.

Interjection

stop!

  1. stop!, halt!

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɔp/

Etymology 1

From the verb stopić.

Noun

stop m inan

  1. (chemistry) an alloy; a mixture of metals.
    Mosiądz jest stopem miedzi i cynku.‎
    Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc.
Declension
Synonyms
  • aliaż (obsolete)

Etymology 2

Borrowing from English stop.

Interjection

stop

  1. stop!, halt!

Noun

stop m inan

  1. a stop sign.
    Jechał dalej, bo nie zauważył stopu.‎
    He continued to drive because he hadn't noticed the stop sign.
  2. (colloquial) a vehicle's brake light.
    Uderzyłam w niego, bo nie zaświecił mu się stop i nie wiedziałam, że ostro hamuje.‎
    I hit his car because his brake light didn't flash and I didn't know he was braking hard.
  3. (colloquial) hitchhiking.
    Często podróżuję na stopa.‎
    I often hitchhike.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from English stop.

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈstɔp/, /ˈstɔ.pi/

Noun

stop m (plural stops)

  1. stop (function or button that causes a device to stop operating)
  2. (uncountable) A game in which the players write on paper one word from each category (animal, fruit, etc.), all beginning with the same letter, as quickly as possible. In Spanish: tutti frutti.
  3. (stock market) stop loss order (order to close one’s position if the market drops to a specified price level)
  4. (Brazil, upper-class slang) stop; end (the act of putting a stop to something)
    Precisamos dar um stop na nossa preguiça.‎
    We need to put an end to our laziness.

Interjection

stop!

  1. Said by a player of the game of stop to cease the current turn, after which the players count how many words they wrote.

See also

  • CEP (acronym of "cidade, estado, país", meaning "city, state, country", a category in the game of stop)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English stop.

Interjection

stop

  1. stop

Swedish

Noun

stop n

  1. Beer mug.
  2. stoup

Declension

Inflection of stop 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative stop stopet stop stopen
Genitive stops stopets stops stopens

Synonyms

Etymology

From Middle English stoppen, stoppien, from Old English stoppian ‎(“to stop, close”), from Proto-Germanic *stuppōną ‎(“to stop, close”), *stuppijaną ‎(“to push, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, *(s)tewb- ‎(“to push; stick”), from *(s)tew- ‎(“to bump; impact; butt; push; beat; strike; hit”). 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 & Icelandic stoppa ‎(“to stop”), Middle High German stupfen, stüpfen ‎(“to pierce”). More at stuff, stump.

Alternate etymology derives Proto-Germanic *stuppōną from an assumed Vulgar Latin *stūpāre, *stuppāre ‎(“to stop up with tow”), from stūpa, stīpa, stuppa ‎(“tow, flax, oakum”), from Ancient Greek στύπη ‎(stúpē), στύππη ‎(stúppē, “tow, flax, oakum”). 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.[1]

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