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say it: stahp
stop is a noun and verb meaning "the event of something ending". It carries 22 recorded senses.
the act of stopping something
“the third baseman made some remarkable stops”
“his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood”
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”
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
“his stop consonants are too aspirated”
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”
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
“the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically”
an obstruction in a pipe or tube
“we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe”
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stop come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.