stop

to cease from, leave off, or discontinue.

to stop running.

Antonyms:

start

to cause to cease; put an end to.

to stop noise in the street.

Antonyms:

start

to interrupt, arrest, or check (a course, proceeding, process, etc.).

Stop your work just a minute.

Antonyms:

start

to cut off, intercept, or withhold.

to stop supplies.

to restrain, hinder, or prevent (usually followed byfrom ).

I couldn't stop him from going.

Synonyms:

impede, obstruct, thwart

to prevent from proceeding, acting, operating, continuing, etc..

to stop a speaker; to stop a car.

to block, obstruct, or close (a passageway, channel, opening, duct, etc.) (usually followed byup ).

He stopped up the sink with a paper towel. He stopped the hole in the tire with a patch.

to fill the hole or holes in (a wall, a decayed tooth, etc.).

to close (a container, tube, etc.) with a cork, plug, bung, or the like.

to close the external orifice of (the ears, nose, mouth, etc.).

Sports.

1. to check (a stroke, blow, etc.); parry; ward off.

2. to defeat (an opposing player or team).

   The Browns stopped the Colts.

3. Boxing. to defeat by a knockout or technical knockout.

   Louis stopped Conn in the 13th round.

Banking. to notify a bank to refuse payment of (a check) upon presentation.

Bridge. to have an honor card and a sufficient number of protecting cards to keep an opponent from continuing to win in (a suit).

Music.

1. to close (a fingerhole) in order to produce a particular note from a wind instrument.

2. to press down (a string of a violin, viola, etc.) in order to alter the pitch of the tone produced from it.

3. to produce (a particular note) by so doing.

to come to a stand, as in a course or journey; halt.

to cease moving, proceeding, speaking, acting, operating, etc.; to pause; desist.

Synonyms:

quit

to cease; come to an end.

to halt for a brief visit (often followed by at, in, orby ).

He is stopping at the best hotel in town.

stop by, to make a brief visit on one's way elsewhere.

I'll stop by on my way home.

the act of stopping.

a cessation or arrest of movement, action, operation, etc.; end.

The noise came to a stop. Put a stop to that behavior!

Synonyms:

termination, halt

a stay or sojourn made at a place, as in the course of a journey.

Above all, he enjoyed his stop in Trieste.

a place where trains or other vehicles halt to take on and discharge passengers.

Is this a bus stop?

Synonyms:

terminal

a closing or filling up, as of a hole.

a blocking or obstructing, as of a passage or channel.

a plug or other stopper for an opening.

an obstacle, impediment, or hindrance.

any piece or device that serves to check or control movement or action in a mechanism.

Synonyms:

governor

Architecture. a feature terminating a molding or chamfer.

Commerce.

1. an order to refuse payment of a check.

2. stop order.

Music.

1. the act of closing a fingerhole or pressing a string of an instrument in order to produce a particular note.

2. a device or contrivance, as on an instrument, for accomplishing this.

3. (in an organ) a graduated set of pipes of the same kind and giving tones of the same quality.

4. Also called stop knob.  a knob or handle that is drawn out or pushed back to permit or prevent the sounding of such a set of pipes or to control some other part of the organ.

5. (in a reed organ) a group of reeds functioning like a pipe-organ stop.

Sports. an individual defensive play or act that prevents an opponent or opposing team from scoring, advancing, or gaining an advantage, as a catch in baseball, a tackle in football, or the deflection of a shot in hockey.

Nautical. a piece of small line used to lash or fasten something, as a furled sail.

Phonetics.

1. an articulation that interrupts the flow of air from the lungs.

2. a consonant sound characterized by stop articulation, as p, b, t, d, k, and g.

Photography. the diaphragm opening of a lens, especially as indicated by an f- number.

Building Trades.

1. stop bead.

2. doorstop.

any of various marks used as punctuation at the end of a sentence, especially a period.

the word “stop” printed in the body of a telegram or cablegram to indicate a period.

(used with a singular verb) stops, a family of card games whose object is to play all of one's cards in a predetermined sequence before one's opponents.

Zoology. a depression in the face of certain animals, especially dogs, marking the division between the forehead and the projecting part of the muzzle.

stop down (on a camera) to reduce (the diaphragm opening of a lens).