stops Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun 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
Michigan; Newmarket; boodle; Chicago.
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noun the event of something ending
stop; halt.
- it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill
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noun the act of stopping something
stoppage; stop.
- the third baseman made some remarkable stops
- his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood
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noun a brief stay in the course of a journey
stop; stopover; layover.
- they made a stopover to visit their friends
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noun the state of inactivity following an interruption
halt; stoppage; stop; hitch; arrest; stay; check.
- 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
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noun a spot where something halts or pauses
stop.
- his next stop is Atlanta
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noun a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
plosive speech sound; plosive; stop; occlusive; stop consonant; plosive consonant.
- his stop consonants are too aspirated
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noun a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
full point; full stop; stop; period; point.
- in England they call a period a stop
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noun (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
stop.
- the organist pulled out all the stops
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noun a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
diaphragm; stop.
- the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically
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noun a restraint that checks the motion of something
catch; stop.
- he used a book as a stop to hold the door open
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noun an obstruction in a pipe or tube
closure; blockage; stoppage; occlusion; stop; block.
- we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe
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verb come to a halt, stop moving
stop; halt.
- the car stopped
- She stopped in front of a store window
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verb put an end to a state or an activity
quit; discontinue; lay off; stop; give up; cease.
- Quit teasing your little brother
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verb stop from happening or developing
kibosh; stop; halt; block.
- Block his election
- Halt the process
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verb interrupt a trip
stop over; stop.
- we stopped at Aunt Mary's house
- they stopped for three days in Florence
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verb cause to stop
stop.
- stop a car
- stop the thief
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verb prevent completion
break; stop; discontinue; break off.
- stop the project
- break off the negotiations
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verb hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
turn back; stop; hold back; arrest; contain; check.
- Arrest the downward trend
- Check the growth of communism in South East Asia
- Contain the rebel movement
- Turn back the tide of communism
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verb seize on its way
intercept; stop.
- The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace
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verb have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
stop; cease; finish; end; terminate.
- 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
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verb render unsuitable for passage
bar; block up; stop; blockade; barricade; block off; block.
- block the way
- barricade the streets
- stop the busy road
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verb stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
hold on; stop.
- Hold on a moment!