stop

  • (noun): A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
  • (noun): An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
  • (noun): That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
  • (noun): A device intended to block the path of a moving object
  • (noun): A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
  • (noun): A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
  • (noun): A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
  • (noun): One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
  • (noun): A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
  • (noun): The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
  • (noun): A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
  • (noun): A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
  • (noun): An f-stop.
  • (noun): The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
  • (noun): A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
  • (verb): To cease moving.
  • (verb): To not continue.
  • (verb): To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
  • (verb): To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
  • (verb): To cause (something) to come to an end.
  • (verb): To close or block an opening.
  • (verb): (often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
  • (verb): To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
  • (verb): To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
  • (verb): To punctuate.
  • (verb): To make fast; to stopper.
  • They agreed to meet at the bus stop.
  • That stop was not planned.
  • door stop
  • The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.
  • The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.