Definition of stop

"stop" in the noun sense

1. stop, halt

the event of something ending

"it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"

2. stop, stoppage

the act of stopping something

"the third baseman made some remarkable stops"

"his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"

3. stop, stopover, layover

a brief stay in the course of a journey

"they made a stopover to visit their friends"

4. arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage

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"

5. stop

a spot where something halts or pauses

"his next stop is Atlanta"

6. stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive

a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

"his stop consonants are too aspirated"

7. period, point, full stop, stop, full point

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"

8. stop

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"

9. diaphragm, stop

a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens

"the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"

10. catch, stop

a restraint that checks the motion of something

"he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"

11. blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage

an obstruction in a pipe or tube

"we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"

"stop" in the verb sense

1. stop, halt

come to a halt, stop moving

"the car stopped"

"She stopped in front of a store window"

2. discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off

put an end to a state or an activity

"Quit teasing your little brother"

3. stop, halt, block, kibosh

stop from happening or developing

"Block his election"

"Halt the process"

4. stop, stop over

interrupt a trip

"we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"

"they stopped for three days in Florence"

5. stop

cause to stop

"stop a car"

"stop the thief"

6. break, break off, discontinue, stop

prevent completion

"stop the project"

"break off the negotiations"

7. check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back

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"

8. intercept, stop

seize on its way

"The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"

9. end, stop, finish, terminate, cease

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"

10. barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar

render unsuitable for passage

"block the way"

"barricade the streets"

"stop the busy road"

11. hold on, stop

stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments

"Hold on a moment!"

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Quotations for stop

You who come my grave to view,
A moment stop and think.
That I am in eternity,
And you are on the brink. [ Epitaph ]

To stop two gaps with one bush. [ Proverb ]

Time and tide will stop for no man. [ Proverb ]

Stop a little to make an end the sooner. [ Proverb ]

Time, that takes survey of all the world,
Must have a stop. [ William Shakespeare ]

Make thick my blood,
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of Nature
Shake my fell purpose. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Evil, like a rolling stone upon a mountain-top,
A child may first impel, a giant cannot stop. [ Trench ]

When the wine is run out you would stop the leak. [ Proverb ]

One can stop when he ascends, but not when he descends. [ Napoleon I ]

My tears must stop, for every drop Hinders needle and thread. [ Hood ]

The secret of making one's self tiresome is not to know when to stop. [ Voltaire ]

If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them. [ Yogi Berra ]

Content is to the mind like moss to a tree; it bindeth it up so as to stop its growth. [ Halifax ]

Ten Things To Do.

Do good to all.
Speak evil of none.
Hear and know the facts before judging.
Think before speaking.
Hold an angry tongue.
Be kind to the distressed.
Ask pardon for all wrongs.
Be patient toward everybody.
Stop the ears to a tale-bearer.
Disbelieve most of the ill reports concerning friends, neighbors, and people in general.

It is an inherent and inseparable inconvenience in persecution that it knows not where to stop. [ Robert Hall ]

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old; they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. [ Gabriel García Márquez ]

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast [ Coleridge ]

Blessed are those whose blood and judgment are so well commingled that they are not a pipe for Fortune's finger to sound what stop she please. [ William Shakespeare ]

The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire. [ E. de Girardin ]

Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms. [ Pliny the Younger ]

That single effort by which we stop short in the down-hill path to perdition is of itself a greater exertion of virtue than a hundred acts of justice. [ Goldsmith ]

Talking is like playing the harp. There is as much in laying the hand on the strings to stop their vibrations as in twanging them to bring out the music. [ Holmes ]

Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the keyhole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney. [ William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV. Sc.1 ]

If you're ever stuck in some thick undergrowth, in your underwear, don't stop and think of what other words have 'under' in them, because that's probably the first sign of jungle madness. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Doubtless botany has its value; but the flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them; they are apt to stop preaching, though, so soon as we begin to dissect and botanize them. [ H. N. Hudson ]

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of satisfying every one of his demands will oblige you to stop short at last, after he has become a little headstrong. [ Henry Home ]

Talk to the point, and stop when you have reached it. The faculty some possess of making one idea cover a quire of paper is not good for much. Be comprehensive in all you say or write. To fill a volume upon nothing is a credit to nobody; though Lord Chesterfield wrote a very clever poem upon nothing. [ John Neal ]

There are three wicks you know to the lamp of a man's life: brain, blood, and breath. Press the brain a little, its light goes out, followed by both the others. Stop the heart a minute, and out go all three of the wicks. Choke the air out of the lungs, and presently the fluid ceases to supply the other centers of flame, and all is soon stagnation, cold, and darkness. [ O. W. Holmes ]

stop in Scrabble®

The word stop is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters stop:

STOP
(27)
POST
(27)
POTS
(27)
 

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stop in Words With Friends™

The word stop is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters stop:

POTS
(45)
POST
(45)
STOP
(45)
 

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Word Growth involving stop

Shorter words in stop

to top

Longer words containing stop

aistopod aistopods

backstop backstopped

backstop backstopping

backstop backstops

blastophore

blastopore

cholecystopathy

cholecystopexy

christophobe christophobes

christophobia

christophobic christophobics

colicystopyelitis

costophrenic

costopleural

costopneumopexy

costopulmonary

cystoproctostomies

cystoproctostomy

cystopyelitic

doorstop doorstopper doorstoppers

doorstop doorstopping

doorstop doorstops

dystopia dystopian

dystopia dystopias

estoppel

fullstop

glaucocystophyte glaucocystophytes

histopathogenesis

histopathologic histopathological histopathologically

histopathologies

histopathologist dermatohistopathologist dermatohistopathologists

histopathologist histopathologists dermatohistopathologists

histopathology cytohistopathology

histophilosis

histoplasma

histoplasmosis

mastopexies

mastopexy

neurocristopathies

nonstop nonstops

nostopath nostopaths

nostopath nostopathy

nostophobic

postop postoperative postoperatively

ripstop ripstops

shortstop shortstops

stopblock stopblocked

stopblock stopblocking

stopblock stopblocks

stopboard stopboards

stopcock stopcocks

stopgap stopgaps

stoplight stoplights

stopover stopovers

stoppable unstoppable

stoppage stoppages

stopped backstopped

stopped unstopped

stopper doorstopper doorstoppers

stopper gobstopper gobstoppers

stopper showstopper showstoppers

stopper stoppered unstoppered

stopper stoppering

stopper stoppers doorstoppers

stopper stoppers gobstoppers

stopper stoppers showstoppers

stopping backstopping

stopping doorstopping

stopping showstopping

stopping unstopping

stops backstops

stops doorstops

stops nonstops

stops ripstops

stops shortstops

stops tabstops

stops truckstops

stops unstops

stopt

stopwatch stopwatches

tabstop tabstops

testophobe testophobes

testophobia

testophobic testophobics

truckstop truckstops

unstop unstoppability

unstop unstoppable

unstop unstoppably

unstop unstopped

unstop unstoppered

unstop unstopping

unstop unstops

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