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(n) the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
(n) the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
(n) a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
(n) 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"
(n) a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta"
(n) a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
(n) 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"
(n) (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"
(n) a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"
(n) a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
(n) an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
(v) come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
(v) put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
(v) stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
(v) interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary''s house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"
(v) cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"
(v) prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negociations"
(v) 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 Sout East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
(v) seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country''s airspace"
(v) 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 end
(v) render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
(v) stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"

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