Overview of noun stops

The noun stops has 1 sense

• Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops -- (a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card)

Overview of noun stop

The noun stop has 11 senses

• stop, halt -- (the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill")


• stop, stoppage -- (the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood")


• stop, stopover, layover -- (a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends")


• 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")


• stop -- (a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta")


• 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")


• 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")


• 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")


• diaphragm, stop -- (a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically")


• catch, stop -- (a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open")


• 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")

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!")