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Noun stop has 11 senses
- stop, halt - the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
--1 is a kind of ending, conclusion, finish
--1 has particulars: cessation, surcease; stand, standstill, tie-up
- stop, stoppage - the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
--2 is a kind of act, human action, human activity
--2 has particulars:
- stop, stopover, layover - a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
--3 is a kind of stay
--3 has particulars: night-stop; pit stop; pit stop; stand
- arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage - the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat"
--4 is a kind of inaction, inactivity, inactiveness
--4 has particulars: countercheck; logjam
- stop - a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta"
--5 is a kind of topographic point, place, spot
--5 has particulars:
- stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive - a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
--6 is a kind of consonant
--6 has parts: implosion; plosion, explosion
--6 has particulars:
- period, point, full stop, stop, full point - a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop"
--7 is a kind of punctuation, punctuation mark
--7 has particulars: suspension point
- stop - (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes; "the organist pulled out all the stops"
--8 is a kind of knob
--8 is a part of organ, pipe organ
- diaphragm, stop - a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"
--9 is a kind of mechanical device
--9 is a part of camera, photographic camera
--9 has particulars: iris, iris diaphragm
- catch, stop - a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
--10 is a kind of restraint, constraint
--10 has particulars:
- blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage - an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
--11 is a kind of obstruction, obstructor, obstructer, impediment, impedimenta
--11 has particulars:
Verb stop has 11 senses
- stop, halt - come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
Antonyms: start, go, get going
Sample sentences:
These cars won't stop
They stop the animals
- discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off - put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
Sample sentence:
They stop moving
- stop, halt, block, kibosh - stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
--3 is one way to prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid
Sample sentence:
They stop him from writing the letter
- stop, stop over - interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"
--4 is one way to interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
- stop - cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"
Antonyms: start, start up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- break, break off, discontinue, stop - prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negociations"
--6 is one way to end, terminate
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back - hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
--7 is one way to defend
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- intercept, stop - seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"
--8 is one way to catch, grab, take hold of
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- end, stop, finish, terminate, cease - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
- barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar - render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
--10 is one way to obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- hold on, stop - stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"
--11 is one way to interrupt, break
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
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