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English
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From Middle English stoppen, stoppien from Old English stoppian "to stop up, close" from Proto-Germanic *stuppōjanan (“to stop up, close”). Akin to Old Saxon stuppōn "to stop up", Middle Low German stoppen "to stuff, cram" (Low Saxon stoppen "to stuff, cram"), Middle Dutch stoppen "to stuff, cram" (Dutch stoppen "to stop"), Old High German stoffōn, stoppōn "to stop up" (German stopfen "to be filling", stoppen "to stop"), Icelandic stoppa "to stop", Swedish stoppa "to stop", Danish stoppe "to stop", Old High German stophōn "to pierce" (Middle High German stupfen, stüpfen "to pierce"). More at stuff, stump.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: stŏp, IPA: /stɒp/, SAMPA: /stQp/
- (US) enPR: stŏp, IPA: /stɑp/, SAMPA: /stAp/
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Adverb
stop (not comparable)
- Prone to halting or hesitation.
- He’s stop still.
Noun
stop (plural stops)
- A (usually marked) place where line buses or trams halt to let passengers get on and off.
- They agreed to see each other at the bus stop.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- That stop was not planned.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object; as, a door stop.
- (linguistics) 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.
- Short for a stopper, used in the phrase 'pull out all the stops'.
- A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
- (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
- (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.
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- (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.
- (photography) An f-stop.
Synonyms
Verb
to stop (third-person singular simple present stops, present participle stopping, simple past and past participle stopped)
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- I stopped at the traffic lights.
- (intransitive) To come to an end.
- The riots stopped when police moved in.
- Soon the rain will stop.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- The referees stopped the fight.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- He stopped the wound with gauze.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To stay a while.
- He stopped for two weeks at the inn.
- (intransitive) To tarry.
- He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) or the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs for more information.
Synonyms
- (to cease moving): brake, desist, halt
- (to come to an end): cease, desist, discontinue, halt, terminate
- (to cause to cease moving): cancel, cease, discontinue, halt, terminate
- (to cause to come to an end): cancel, cease, discontinue, halt, terminate
Antonyms
- (to cease moving): continue, go, move, proceed
- (to come to an end): continue, proceed
- (to cause to cease moving): continue, move
- (to cause to come to an end): continue, move
Derived terms
Terms derived from the verb "stop"
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Translations
cease moving
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Anagrams
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
stop m. (plural stoppen, diminutive stopje)
Verb
stop
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French
Noun
stop m (usually uncountable)
Related terms
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Italian
Etymology
English
Interjection
stop!
Noun
stop m. inv.
- stop (roadsign; bus stop etc; block)
Anagrams
Polish
Polish Wikipedia has an article on: StopPronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
stop m. (plural stopy)
- (chemistry) an alloy; a mixture of metals.
- Mosiądz jest stopem miedzi i cynku.
- Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc.
- Mosiądz jest stopem miedzi i cynku.
Synonyms
- aliaż (m.)
Etymology 2
From English stop.
Interjection
stop!
Noun
stop m.
- a stop sign.
- Jechał dalej, bo nie zauważył stopu.
- He continued to drive because he hadn't noticed the stop sign.
- (informal) 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.
- Uderzyłam w niego, bo nie zaświecił mu się stop i nie wiedziałam, że ostro hamuje.
- (informal) hitchhiking.
- Często podróżuję na stopa.
- I often hitchhike.
- Często podróżuję na stopa.
Swedish
Noun
Declension of stop| singular | plural | |||
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| Neuter | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite |
| nominative | stop | stopet | stop | stopen |
| genitive | stops | stopets | stops | stopens |
stop n.
- Beer mug.
Synonyms
- sejdel
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Songs
- Stop (Ryan Adams song), a song by Ryan Adams
- Stop! (Against Me! song), a song by Against Me!
- Stop (Bang song), a song by Bang
- Stop! (Sam Brown song), a Sam Brown song covered by Jamelia
- Stop (Erasure song), a song by Erasure
- Stop! (Jane's Addiction song), a song by Jane's Addiction
- Stop (Omar Naber song), a song by Omar Naber
- Stop (Pink Floyd song), a song by Pink Floyd
- "Stop" (Spice Girls song)
- "Stop! In the Name of Love", a song by The Supremes
- Stop, a song by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club on the album Take Them On, On Your Own
- Stop, a song by Death Angel on the album Act III
- Stop, a song on the album Stop (Don Lanphere album)
- Stop, a song on the album Stop (Plain White T's album)
- Stop, a song on the album Life (Dope album)
- Stop, a song by Matchbox Twenty from the album Mad Season
- S.T.O.P., a song by Lady Gaga from the album Born this way
Albums
- Stop! (album), by Sam Brown
- Stop (Franco De Vita album)
- Stop (Eric Burdon Band album)
- Stop (Don Lanphere album)
- Stop (Plain White T's album)
Optics and photography
- Aperture, a structure that limits the light entering an optical system
- F-stops, a unit of measure of aperture
- Stop bath, a chemical used in film processing
- A measure of exposure value
Film
- Stop, a 1970 film by Bill Gunn
- Stop, a 1972 Quebec film by Jean Beaudin
- Stop!, a 2004 film starring Dia Mirza
Other uses
- Stop consonant, a concept in linguistics
- Stop codon, a type of RNA molecule in genetic code
- STOP error, a computer error screen
- Stop sign, a traffic signal
- Full stop, a punctuation mark
- Bus stop
- Door stop
- Double stop, the act of playing two notes simultaneously
- Organ stop, a component of a pipe organ
- Terry stop, a type of police search
- Truck stop, a type of rest stop for truck drivers
- Safe Tables Our Priority, a food safety organization
- Secure Trusted Operating Program, a computer operating system
- Society of Teachers Opposed to Physical Punishment
- Surgical Termination of Pregnancy, a type of abortion
- Stop, a font designed by Aldo Novarese
- The point on an animal's face where the snout begins
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