stop /stɒp/
1. the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
2. the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
3. a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
synset: stop, stopover, layover
4. 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"
synset: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage
5. a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta"
synset: stop
6. a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
synset: stop_consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive_consonant, plosive_speech_sound, plosive
antonym: continuant_consonant, continuant
7. 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"
synset: period, point, full_stop, stop, full_point
8. (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"
synset: stop
9. a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"
10. a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
11. an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
synset: blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage
1. come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
2. put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
synset: discontinue, stop, cease, give_up, quit, lay_off
antonym: continue, uphold, carry_on, bear_on, preserve
3. stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
synset: stop, halt, block, kibosh
4. interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"
5. cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"
synset: stop
6. prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"
synset: break, break_off, discontinue, stop
7. 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 South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
synset: check, turn_back, arrest, stop, contain, hold_back
8. seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"
9. 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"
synset: end, stop, finish, terminate, cease
10. render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
synset: barricade, block, blockade, stop, block_off, block_up, bar
11. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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