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stop definition

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This page has 78 definitions of stop with English translations in 15 languages. Stop is a noun, verb, punctuation mark and interjection. Examples of how to use stop in a sentence are shown. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .

See also: Stop and stóp

Translingual stop definition

Etymology

From English full stop.

Pronunciation

Noun

stop

  1. (international standards) ITU & IMO phonetic alphabet code for full stop.

English stop definition

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English stoppen, stoppien, from Old English stoppian (“to stop, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn, from Proto-Germanic *stuppōną (“to stop, close”), *stuppijaną (“to push, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, *(s)tewb- (“to push; stick”), from *(s)tew- (“to bump; impact; butt; push; beat; strike; hit”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian stopje (“to stop, block”), West Frisian stopje (“to stop”), Dutch stoppen (“to stop”), Low German stoppen (“to stop”), German stopfen (“to be filling, stuff”), German stoppen (“to stop”), Danish stoppe (“to stop”), Swedish stoppa (“to stop”), Icelandic stoppa (“to stop”), Middle High German stupfen, stüpfen (“to pierce”). More at stuff, stump.

Alternate etymology derives Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn from an assumed Vulgar Latin *stūpāre, *stuppāre (“to stop up with tow”), from stūpa, stīpa, stuppa (“tow, flax, oakum”), from Ancient Greek στύπη (stúpē), στύππη (stúppē, “tow, flax, oakum”). This derivation, however, is doubtful, as the earliest instances of the Germanic verb do not carry the meaning of "stuff, stop with tow". Rather, these senses developed later in response to influence from similar sounding words in Latin and Romance.[1]

Verb

stop (third-person singular simple present stops, present participle stopping, simple past and past participle stopped)

  2. (intransitive) To cease moving.
    I stopped at the traffic lights.
  3. (intransitive) Not to continue.
    The riots stopped when police moved in.
    Soon the rain will stop.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
      Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] , down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.
  4. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
    • 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
      A “moving platform” scheme […] is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. […] This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?
    The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.
    This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him.
  5. (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
    One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.
    Please stop telling me those terrible jokes.
  6. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
    The referees stopped the fight.
  7. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
    He stopped the wound with gauze.
  8. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
    To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.
  9. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
    to stop with a friend
    He stopped for two weeks at the inn.
    He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.
  10. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
  11. (obsolete) To punctuate.
  12. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
  13. (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
    th-stopping
  14. (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
    • 1952, Charles Amos Dice, ‎Wilford John Eiteman, The Stock Market (page 144)
      It will be noted that the specialist would have refused to stop the stock for broker X if he (the specialist) had only one order to sell at 85.
Conjugation
Conjugation of stop
infinitive (to) stop
present tense past tense
1st-person singular stop stopped
2nd-person singular
3rd-person singular stops
plural stop
subjunctive stop stopped
imperative stop —
participles stopping stopped
Usage notes
Synonyms
Antonyms
Hyponyms
 
Derived terms
 
Descendants
Translations
to punctuate — see punctuate
nautical: to make fast — see stopper
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Noun

stop (plural stops)

  2. A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
    Related terms: halt, station.
    They agreed to meet at the bus stop.
  3. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
    That stop was not planned.
  4. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
    • 1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, OCLC 28470143:
      A fatal stop trauerst their headlong course
    • a. 1729, John Rogers, The Advantages of conversing with good Men
      So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.
  5. A device intended to block the path of a moving object
    door stop
    1. (engineering) 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.
    2. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
  6. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
    Synonyms: plosive, occlusive
  7. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
  8. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
    The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.
  9. (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
  10. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
  11. (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
    • 2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport‎[1]:
      The Foxes were indebted to two crucial saves from keeper Kasper Schmeichel, who turned former Leicester defender Ben Chilwell's header on to a post then produced an even better stop to turn Mason Mount's powerful shot wide.
  12. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
    The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.
  13. (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
  14. (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
  15. (photography) An f-stop.
  16. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
  17. (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
Derived terms
 
Translations
consonant sound — see plosive
photography:f-stop — see f-stop
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References
  1. ^ The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, "stop".

Punctuation mark

stop

  1. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English stoppe, from Old English stoppa (“bucket, pail, a stop”), from Proto-Germanic *stuppô (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teub- (“to push, hit; stick, stump”). See stoup.

Cognates
Cognate with Norwegian stopp, stoppa (“deep well, recess”), Middle High German stubech, stübich (“barrel, vat, unit of measure”) (German Stübchen). Related also to Middle Low German stōp (“beaker, flask”), Middle High German stouf (“beaker, flask”), Norwegian staupa (“goblet”), Icelandic staupa (“shot-glass”), Old English stēap (“a stoup, beaker, drinking vessel, cup, flagon”). Cognate to Albanian shtambë (“amphora, bucket”).

Noun

stop (plural stops)

  1. (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
Translations

Etymology 3

s- +‎ top

Noun

stop (plural stops)

  1. (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
    • 2016, ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for pair production of gluinos decaying via stop and sbottom in events with b {\displaystyle b} -jets and large missing transverse momentum in p p {\displaystyle pp} collisions at s = 13 {\displaystyle {\sqrt {s}}=13} TeV with the ATLAS detector”, in arXiv‎[2]:
      For neutralino masses below approximately 700 GeV, gluino masses of less than 1.78 TeV and 1.76 TeV are excluded at the 95% CL in simplified models of the pair production of gluinos decaying via sbottom and stop, respectively.

Anagrams

Czech stop definition

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From English stop.

Noun

stop m inan

  1. hitchhiking
    Synonym: autostop
  2. (sports) suspension
    Za hrubý faul dostal stop na čtyři zápasy. ― He received a four-match suspension for a serious foul.
Related terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

stop

  1. genitive plural of stopa

Verb

stop

  1. second-person singular imperative of stopit

Further reading

  • stop in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • stop in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish stop definition

Verb

stop

  1. imperative of stoppe

Dutch stop definition

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch stoppe. See the verb stoppen.

Noun

stop m (plural stoppen, diminutive stopje n)

  1. An action of stopping, cessation.
  2. A plug for a sink, a stopper.
  3. An electric fuse.
    Synonyms: smeltstop, zekering
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

stop

  1. first-person singular present indicative of stoppen
  2. imperative of stoppen

Anagrams

Finnish stop definition

Interjection

stop

  1. stop (halt)
  2. stop (end-of-sentence indicator in telegrams)

Synonyms

French stop definition

Etymology

1792. Borrowed from English stop.

Pronunciation

Interjection

stop!

  1. stop!

Noun

stop m (uncountable)

  1. stop sign
  2. hitchhiking

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

Anagrams

Hungarian stop definition

Etymology

Borrowed from English stop.

Pronunciation

Interjection

stop

  1. halt! stop!

Punctuation mark

stop

  1. stop (used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram)

Noun

stop (plural stopok)

  1. (colloquial) stop sign (a red sign on the side of a street instructing vehicles to stop)
    Nem állt meg a stopnál. ― He ran the stop sign.
  2. (colloquial) hitchhike (an act of hitchhiking, trying to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative stop stopok
accusative stopot stopokat
dative stopnak stopoknak
instrumental stoppal stopokkal
causal-final stopért stopokért
translative stoppá stopokká
terminative stopig stopokig
essive-formal stopként stopokként
essive-modal — —
inessive stopban stopokban
superessive stopon stopokon
adessive stopnál stopoknál
illative stopba stopokba
sublative stopra stopokra
allative stophoz stopokhoz
elative stopból stopokból
delative stopról stopokról
ablative stoptól stopoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		stopé stopoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		stopéi stopokéi
Possessive forms of stop
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. stopom stopjaim
2nd person sing. stopod stopjaid
3rd person sing. stopja stopjai
1st person plural stopunk stopjaink
2nd person plural stopotok stopjaitok
3rd person plural stopjuk stopjaik

Derived terms

Irish stop definition

Etymology

Borrowed from English stop, from Middle English stoppen, from Old English stoppian (“to stop, close”).

Pronunciation

Verb

stop (present analytic stopann, future analytic stopfaidh, verbal noun stopadh, past participle stoptha)

  1. to stop

Conjugation

First Conjugation (A)
stopaim
stopann tú;
stopair† 		stopann sé, sí stopaimid stopann sibh stopann siad;
stopaid† 		a stopann; a stopas stoptar
past stop mé; stopas stop tú; stopais stop sé, sí stopamar; stop muid stop sibh; stopabhair stop siad; stopadar a stop /
ar stop* 		stopadh
past habitual stopainn stoptá stopadh sé, sí stopaimis; stopadh muid stopadh sibh stopaidís; stopadh siad a stopadh /
a stopadh* 		stoptaí
future stopfaidh mé;
stopfad 		stopfaidh tú;
stopfair† 		stopfaidh sé, sí stopfaimid;
stopfaidh muid 		stopfaidh sibh stopfaidh siad;
stopfaid† 		a stopfaidh; a stopfas stopfar
conditional stopfainn stopfá stopfadh sé, sí stopfaimis; stopfadh muid stopfadh sibh stopfaidís; stopfadh siad a stopfadh /
a stopfadh* 		stopfaí
subjunctive present go stopa mé;
go stopad† 		go stopa tú;
go stopair† 		go stopa sé, sí go stopaimid;
go stopa muid 		go stopa sibh go stopa siad;
go stopaid† 		— go stoptar
past dá stopainn dá stoptá dá stopadh sé, sí dá stopaimis;
dá stopadh muid 		dá stopadh sibh dá stopaidís;
dá stopadh siad 		— dá stoptaí
imperative stopaim stop stopadh sé, sí stopaimis stopaigí;
stopaidh† 		stopaidís — stoptar
verbal noun stopadh
past participle stoptha

* Indirect relative
† Archaic or dialect form

Synonyms

Noun

stop m (genitive singular stop, nominative plural stopanna)

  1. a stop (place to get on and off line buses or trams; interruption of travel; device to block path)

Declension

Declension of stop

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative stop stopanna
Vocative a stop a stopanna
Genitive stop stopanna
Dative stop stopanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an stop na stopanna
Genitive an stop na stopanna
Dative leis an stop

don stop

leis na stopanna

Synonyms

Further reading

Italian stop definition

Etymology

Borrowed from English stop.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɔp/
  • Rhymes: -ɔp
  • Hyphenation: stòp

Interjection

stop

  1. stop!, halt!

Noun

stop m

  1. stop (roadsign; bus stop etc; block)

Anagrams

Latvian stop definition

Etymology

Borrowed from English stop.

Interjection

stop!

  1. stop!, halt!

Polish stop definition

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Deverbal of stopić.

Noun

stop m inan

  1. (chemistry) an alloy; a mixture of metals
    Synonym: (archaic) aliaż
    Mosiądz jest stopem miedzi i cynku. ― Brass is an alloy of copper and zinc.
Declension
Declension of stop
singular plural
nominative stop stopy
genitive stopu stopów
dative stopowi stopom
accusative stop stopy
instrumental stopem stopami
locative stopie stopach
vocative stopie stopy

Verb

stop

  1. second-person singular imperative of stopić

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English stop.

Interjection

stop

  1. stop!, halt!

Noun

stop m inan

  1. a stop sign
    Jechał dalej, bo nie zauważył stopu.
    He continued to drive because he hadn't noticed the stop sign.
  2. (colloquial) a vehicle's brake light
    Uderzyłam w niego, bo nie zaświecił mu się stop i nie wiedziałam, że ostro hamuje.
    I hit his car because his brake light didn't flash and I didn't know he was braking hard.
  3. (colloquial) hitchhiking
    Często podróżuję na stopa.
    I often hitchhike.

Related terms

adjectives
 
nouns
 

Further reading

  • stop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • stop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese stop definition

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English stop.

Pronunciation

Noun

stop m (plural stops)

  1. stop (function or button that causes a device to stop operating)
  2. (uncountable) A game in which the players write on paper one word from each category (animal, fruit, etc.), all beginning with the same letter, as quickly as possible. In Spanish: tutti frutti.
    Synonym: adedanha
  3. (stock market) stop loss order (order to close one’s position if the market drops to a specified price level)
  4. (Brazil, colloquial) stop; end (the act of putting a stop to something)
    Precisamos dar um stop na nossa preguiça.
    We need to put an end to our laziness.
  5. (Portugal) stop sign
    Ia sendo atropelado porque o condutor não parou no stop. ― I was almost run over because the driver did not stop at the stop sign.

Interjection

stop!

  1. Said by a player of the game of stop to cease the current turn, after which the players count how many words they wrote.

See also

  • CEP (acronym of "cidade, estado, país", meaning "city, state, country", a category in the game of stop)

Further reading

Romanian stop definition

Etymology

From French stop, from English stop.

Pronunciation

Noun

stop n (uncountable)

  1. stop

Declension

declension of stop (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) stop stopul
genitive/dative (unui) stop stopului
vocative stopule

Spanish stop definition

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English stop.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /esˈtop/, [esˈt̪op]

Interjection

stop

  1. stop

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

Swedish stop definition

Etymology

From Old Norse staup (“small glass for liquor”).

Noun

stop n

  1. beer mug.
  2. stoup

Declension

Declension of stop 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative stop stopet stop stopen
Genitive stops stopets stops stopens

Synonyms

Anagrams

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