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stop

noun
  1. a brief stay in the course of a journey
    “they made a stopover to visit their friends”
    stopoverlayover
  2. the act of stopping something
    “the third baseman made some remarkable stops”
    stoppage
  3. an obstruction in a pipe or tube
    closure
  4. a restraint that checks the motion of something
    “They used a book as a stop to hold the door open.”
    catch
  5. a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
    diaphragm
  6. a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
    “The organist pulled out all the stops as the fugue drew to a close.”
  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”
    pointperiodfull stopfull point
  8. a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
    “My stop consonants are too aspirated.”
    occlusive
  9. the event of something ending
    “it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill”
    halt
  10. a spot where something halts or pauses
    “The next stop is Atlanta.”
  11. the state of inactivity following an interruption
    check
verb
  1. prevent completion
    “stop the project”
    break offdiscontinue
  2. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
    hold on
  3. hold back, as of a danger or an enemy
    arrest
  4. seize on its way
    intercept
  5. render unsuitable for passage
    blockade
  6. cause to stop
    “stop a car”
    arrest
  7. come to a halt, stop moving
    “the car stopped”
    halt
  8. interrupt a trip
    “we stopped at Aunt Mary's house”
    stop over
  9. stop from happening or developing
    block
  10. have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense
    finish
  11. put an end to a state or an activity
    ceasediscontinuegive upquitlay off