Overview of noun stopes

The noun stopes has 1 sense

• Stopes, Marie Stopes, Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes -- (birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958))

Overview of verb stop

The verb stop has 11 senses

• stop, halt -- (come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window")


• discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off -- (put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother")


• stop, halt, block, kibosh -- (stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process")


• stop, stop over -- (interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence")


• stop -- (cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief")


• break, break off, discontinue, stop -- (prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations")


• 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")


• intercept, stop -- (seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace")


• 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")


• barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar -- (render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road")


• hold on, stop -- (stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!")