Stop (Noun)
Meaning 1
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".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 2
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".
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 3
A brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 4
(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".
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Meaning 5
The event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill".
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Nouns denoting natural events.
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Meaning 6
A spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta".
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Nouns denoting spatial position.
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Meaning 7
An obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe".
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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Meaning 8
The act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 9
A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated".
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Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
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Meaning 10
A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically".
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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Meaning 11
A restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open".
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.