STOP
(noun, verb, adj.)Definitions
How to pronounce stop:
Stop - as a noun
The event of something ending
Example: "It came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
The act of stopping something
Example: "The third baseman made some remarkable stops"
A brief stay in the course of a journey
Example: "They made a stopover to visit their friends"
The state of inactivity following an interruption
Example: "The negotiations were in arrest"
A spot where something halts or pauses
Example: "His next stop is atlanta"
A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
Example: "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
Example: "In england they call a period a stop"
(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
Example: "The organist pulled out all the stops"
A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
Example: "The new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"
A restraint that checks the motion of something
Example: "He used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
An obstruction in a pipe or tube
Example: "We had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
Stop - as a verb
Come to a halt, stop moving
Example: "The car stopped"
Put an end to a state or an activity
Example: "Quit teasing your little brother"
Stop from happening or developing
Example: "Block his election"
Interrupt a trip
Example: "We stopped at aunt mary's house"
Cause to end
Example: "Stop a car"
Prevent completion
Example: "Stop the project"
Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
Example: "Arrest the downward trend"
Seize on its way
Example: "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"
Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
Example: "The bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"
Render unsuitable for passage
Example: "Block the way"
Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
Example: "Hold on a moment!"
Stop - as an adjective
Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
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Word Game Points
STOP has a SCRABBLE points total of 6.
STOP has a WORDS WITH FRIENDS points total of 7.
STOP has a WORDFEUD points total of 7.