stop
stop is a 4-letter English word with 42 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
- transitive verb. To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
- transitive verb. To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.
- transitive verb. To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.
- transitive verb. To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.
- transitive verb. To point, as a composition; to punctuate.
- transitive verb. To make fast; to stopper.
- intransitive verb. To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.
- intransitive verb. To cease from any motion, or course of action.
- intransitive verb. To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
- noun. The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.
- noun. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.
- noun. A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
- noun. The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.
- noun. In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.
- noun. A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.
- noun. A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.
- noun. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- noun. The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.
- noun. Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed.
- noun. a brief stay in the course of a journey
"they made a stopover to visit their friends"
- noun. the act of stopping something
"the third baseman made some remarkable stops"
"his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
- noun. an obstruction in a pipe or tube
"we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
- noun. a restraint that checks the motion of something
"he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
- noun. a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
"the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"
- noun. (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"
- noun. 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"
- noun. a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
"his stop consonants are too aspirated"
- noun. the event of something ending
"it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
- noun. a spot where something halts or pauses
"his next stop is Atlanta"
- noun. the state of inactivity following an interruption
"the negotiations were in arrest"
"held them in check"
- verb. prevent completion
"stop the project"
"break off the negotiations"
- verb. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
"Hold on a moment!"
- verb. 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"
- verb. seize on its way
"The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"
- verb. render unsuitable for passage
"block the way"
"barricade the streets"
- verb. cause to stop
"stop a car"
"stop the thief"
- verb. come to a halt, stop moving
"the car stopped"
"She stopped in front of a store window"
- verb. interrupt a trip
"we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"
"they stopped for three days in Florence"
- verb. stop from happening or developing
"Block his election"
"Halt the process"
- verb. 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"
- verb. put an end to a state or an activity
"Quit teasing your little brother"
Synonyms
layover, stopover, stoppage, block, blockage, closure, occlusion, catch, diaphragm, period, point, occlusive, plosive, halt, arrest, check, hitch, stay, break, discontinue, contain, intercept, bar, barricade
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stop:
Common word forms
stops, stoped, stopen, stoper, stopes, stoping, stopped, stopper, stopless, stopping
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