Borrowed fromEnglishfull stop.

• IPA^(key):[ˈstɔp]

stop

1. (international standards)ITU &IMOradiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) forfull stop /period.

• decimal

• (Received Pronunciation)enPR:stŏp,IPA^(key):/stɒp/

  • Audio(Received Pronunciation);“a stop”:

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• (General American)enPR:stäp,IPA^(key):/stɑp/

  • Audio(General American):

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• (Standard Southern British)IPA^(key):[stɔp]

  • Audio(Southern England):

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• (Canada)IPA^(key):[stɔ(ː)p]
• Rhymes:-ɒp

FromMiddle Englishstoppen,stoppien, fromOld Englishstoppian(“to stop, close”), fromProto-West Germanic*stoppōn, fromProto-Germanic*stuppōną(“to stop, close”),*stuppijaną(“to push, pierce, prick”), fromProto-Indo-European*(s)tewp-,*(s)tewb-(“to push; stick”), from*(s)tew-(“to bump; impact; butt; push; beat; strike; hit”).

Cognate withSaterland Frisianstopje(“to stop, block”),West Frisianstopje(“to stop”),Dutchstoppen(“to stop”),Low Germanstoppen(“to stop”),Germanstopfen(“to be filling, stuff”),Germanstoppen(“to stop”),Danishstoppe(“to stop”),Swedishstoppa(“to stop”),Icelandicstoppa(“to stop”),Middle High Germanstupfen,stüpfen(“to pierce”). More atstuff,stump.

Alternative etymology derives Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn from an assumedVulgar Latin*stūpāre,*stuppāre(“to stop up with tow”), fromstūpa,stīpa,stuppa(“tow, flax, oakum”), fromAncient Greekστύπη(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]

stop (third-person singular simple presentstops,present participlestopping,simple past and past participlestopped)

2. (intransitive) Tocease moving.

   Istopped at the traffic lights.

3. (intransitive) Not tocontinue.

   The riotsstopped when police moved in.

   Soon the rain willstop.

   • 1918,W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, inThe Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company,→OCLC:

     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 groupstopped to say the last prayer.

4. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving orprogressing.

   The sight of the armed menstopped him in his tracks.

   This guy is a fraudster. I need tostop the cheque I wrote him.

   • 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, inThe Economist, volume407, number8838, 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?

5. (transitive) Tocease; to no longer continue (doing something, especially something wrong or undesirable, or something causing irritation or annoyance).

   Antonym:keep

   One of the wrestlers suddenlystopped fighting.

   Pleasestop telling me those terrible jokes.

6. (transitive) To cause (something) tocome to an end.

   The refereesstopped the fight.

7. (causative,transitive, chieflyUK) To end someone else's activity.
   • 1988, Jeanne Willis, Tony Ross,Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets:

     When they have finished the milk they must be patted and squeezed tostop them exploding.

8. (transitive) Toclose orblock anopening.

   Hestopped the wound with gauze.

   Rotten leaves and branches havestopped the gutter.

   I've had the cracks in the wallstopped with mortar by the builders.

9. (transitive,intransitive,photography, often with "up" or "down") Toadjust theaperture of acameralens.

   To achieve maximum depth of field, hestopped down to an f-stop of 22.

10. (intransitive) Tostay; to spend a shorttime; to reside ortarry temporarily.

    tostop with a friend

    Hestopped for two weeks at the inn.

    Hestopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.

    • 1887,R. D. Blackmore,Springhaven:

      bystopping at home till the money was gone

    • 1931,E. F. Benson, chapter 7, inMapp & Lucia‎^[1]:

      She’s not going away.She’s going tostop here forever.

11. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against thefingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
12. (obsolete) Topunctuate.
    • 1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Alfieri and Salomon the Florentine Jew”, inImaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London:Henry Colburn, […],→OCLC:

      if his sentences were properlystopped

13. (nautical) To makefast; tostopper.
14. (phonetics,transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.

    th-stopping

15. (finance,transitive) Todelay the purchase or sale of (astock) while agreeing theprice for later.
    • 1952, Charles Amos Dice, Wilford John Eiteman,The Stock Market, page144:

      It will be noted that the specialist would have refused tostop the stock for broker X if he (the specialist) had only one order to sell at 85.

• This is acatenative verb that takes thegerund-ing to indicate the ending action (stop thinking), or theto infinitive to indicate the purpose of the interruption (stop to think). SeeAppendix:English catenative verbs for more information.
• When used causatively, the verb can either be followed directly by its dependent clause (for example,to stop them exploding) or take a helper word, usuallyfrom, before the clause (to stop them from exploding). The former usage is more common in Britain, and the latter usage more common in America.

• (to cease moving):brake,desist,halt; See alsoThesaurus:stop
• (not to continue):blin,cease,desist,discontinue,halt,terminate; See alsoThesaurus:desist
• (to cause to cease moving):arrest,freeze,halt; See alsoThesaurus:immobilize
• (to cause to come to an end):blin,cancel,cease,discontinue,halt,terminate; See alsoThesaurus:end
• (to tarry):hang about,hang around,linger,loiter,pause; See alsoThesaurus:tarry
• (to reside temporarily):lodge,stop over; See alsoThesaurus:sojourn

• (antonym(s) of“to cease moving”):continue,go,move,proceed
• (antonym(s) of“not to continue”):continue,proceed
• (antonym(s) of“to cause to cease moving”):continue,move
• (antonym(s) of“to cause to come to an end”):continue,move

• → Finnish:stop
• → French:stop
• → Greek:στοπ(stop)
• → Hungarian:stop
• → Irish:stop
• → Italian:stop
• → Latvian:stop
• → Ottoman Turkish:استوپ(istop)
• → Polish:stop
• → Portuguese:stop
• → Russian:стоп(stop)
• → Spanish:stop
• → Welsh:stopio
• → Tok Pisin:stap

stop (pluralstops)

2. A (usually marked)place wherebuses,trams ortrainshalt to letpassengers get on and off, usually smaller than astation.

   Related terms:halt,station.

   They agreed to meet at the busstop.

3. An action of stopping;interruption of travel.

   Thatstop was not planned.

   • 1722,Daniel Defoe,Journal of the Plague Year:

     It is[…] doubtful[…] whether it contributed anything to thestop of the infection.

   • 1704,I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, inOpticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London:[…] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to theRoyal Society, […],→OCLC:

     Occult qualities put astop to the improvement of natural philosophy.

   • 1693, [John Locke], “§107”, inSome Thoughts Concerning Education, London:[…]A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […],→OCLC:

     It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give thisstop to them.

4. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; anobstacle; animpediment.
   • 1595,Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, inThe First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London:[…]P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson,→OCLC:

     A fatalstop 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 somestop to the rising torrent.

5. Adevice intended toblock the path of a moving object

   doorstop

   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) Aconsonantsound in which thepassage ofair istemporarily blocked by thelips,tongue, orglottis.

   Synonyms:plosive,occlusive

7. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly afull stop,comma,colon orsemicolon.
8. (music) Aknob orpin used to regulate the flow of air in anorgan.

   The organ is loudest when all thestops are pulled.

9. (music) One of the vent-holes in awind instrument, or the place on the wire of astringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
10. (tennis) A veryshortshot which touches the ground close behind thenet and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
11. (soccer) Asave; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
    • 2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, inBBC Sport‎^[2]:

      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 betterstop to turn Mason Mount's powerful shot wide.

12. (zoology) Thedepression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.

    Thestop in a bulldog's face is very marked.

13. A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.

    The American Rabbit Breeders Association holds that thestops of aDutch rabbit should be white from the toes to one third of the way along the foot.

14. (photography) A part of aphotographic system that reduces the amount oflight.
15. (photography) A unit ofexposure corresponding to a doubling of thebrightness of an image.
16. (photography) Anf-stop.
17. Thediaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
18. (fencing) Acoup d'arret, orstop thrust.
19. (UK,grammar,informal)Short forfull stop.

stop

1. Used to indicate theend of asentence in atelegram.

FromMiddle Englishstoppe, fromOld Englishstoppa(“bucket, pail, a stop”), fromProto-Germanic*stuppô(“vat, vessel”), fromProto-Indo-European*(s)teub-(“to push, hit; stick, stump”). Seestoup.

stop (pluralstops)

1. (UKdialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.

Froms- +‎top.

stop (pluralstops)

1. (physics) Thesquark that is thesuperpartner of atopquark.
   • 2016, ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for pair production of gluinos decaying via stop and sbottom in events with${\displaystyle b}$ -jets and large missing transverse momentum in${\displaystyle pp}$  collisions at${\displaystyle \sqrt{s}=13}$  TeV with the ATLAS detector”, inarXiv‎^[3]:

     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 andstop, respectively.

• post-,OTPs,SPTO,spot,TSOP,OSTP,Tops,pots,post.,Post,TPOs,TOPS,post,-post,tops,Spot,POST,POTS,opts,PTOs

• IPA^(key):[ˈstop]

Borrowed fromEnglishstop.

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.

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

stop

1. genitiveplural ofstopa

stop

1. second-personsingularimperative ofstopit

• “stop”, inPříruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech),1935–1957
• “stop”, inSlovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech),1960–1971, 1989

stop

1. imperative ofstoppe

• IPA^(key):/stɔp/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation:stop
• Rhymes:-ɔp

FromMiddle Dutchstoppe. See the verbstoppen.

stop m (pluralstoppen,diminutivestopje n)

1. an action of stopping,cessation
2. aplug for asink, astopper
3. an electricfuse

   Synonyms:smeltstop,zekering

• smeltstop
• stopcontact
• stoppenkast

See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.

stop

1. inflection ofstoppen:
   1. first-personsingularpresentindicative
   2. (in case ofinversion)second-personsingularpresentindicative
   3. imperative

• post
• spot

FromEnglishstop.

• IPA^(key):/ˈstop/,[ˈs̠to̞p]
• Rhymes:-op
• Hyphenation^(key):stop

stop

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

• (halt):seis

• “stop”, inKielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki:Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland),2004–, retrieved2023-07-03

1792. Borrowed fromEnglishstop.

• IPA^(key):/stɔp/

• Audio:

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stop!

1. stop!

stop m (uncountable)

1. stop sign
2. hitchhiking

• auto-stop
• stop américain
• stop-motion
• stopper

• → Moroccan Arabic:سطوب

• “stop”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

• post,pots,spot,tops

Borrowed fromEnglishstop.

• IPA^(key):[ˈʃtopː],[ˈʃtop]
• Rhymes:-opː,-op

stop

1. halt!stop!

stop

1. stop(used to indicate theend of asentence in atelegram)

stop (pluralstopok)

1. (colloquial)stop sign(a red sign on the side of a street instructing vehicles to stop)

   Nem állt meg astopnál. ―He ran the stop sign.

2. (colloquial)hitchhike(an act ofhitchhiking, trying to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road)

• stopfürdő
• stoptábla

• setop(colloquial)

FromDutchstop,Middle Dutchstoppe, fromMiddle Dutchstoppen, fromOld Dutch*stoppon, fromProto-West Germanic*stoppōn.Doublet ofsetop.

• IPA^(key):[ˈst̪ɔp̚]
• Hyphenation:stop

stop (pluralstop-stop)

1. tostop

   Synonyms:berhenti,terhenti

• “stop” inKamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta:Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed fromEnglishstop, fromMiddle Englishstoppen, fromOld Englishstoppian(“to stop, close”).

• IPA^(key):/sˠt̪ˠɔpˠ/

stop (present analyticstopann,future analyticstopfaidh,verbal nounstopadh,past participlestoptha)

1. tostop