6 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Stop \Stop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stopped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Stopping}.] [OE. stoppen, AS. stoppian (in comp.); akin to LG. & D. stoppen, G. stopfen, Icel. stoppa, Sw. stoppa, Dan. stoppe; all probably fr. LL. stopare, stupare, fr. L. stuppa the coarse part of flax, tow, oakum. Cf. {Estop}, {Stuff}, {Stupe} a fomentation.] 1. To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage. [1913 Webster] 3. 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. [1913 Webster] 4. 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. [1913 Webster] Whose disposition all the world well knows Will not be rubbed nor stopped. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 5. (Mus.) 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. [1913 Webster] 6. To point, as a composition; to punctuate. [R.] [1913 Webster] If his sentences were properly stopped. --Landor. [1913 Webster] 7. (Naut.) To make fast; to stopper. [1913 Webster] Syn: To obstruct; hinder; impede; repress; suppress; restrain; discontinue; delay; interrupt. [1913 Webster] {To stop off} (Founding), to fill (a part of a mold) with sand, where a part of the cavity left by the pattern is not wanted for the casting. {To stop the mouth}. See under {Mouth}. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Stopped \Stopped\, a. (Phonetics) Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.). --H. Sweet. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: stop n 1: the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill" [syn: {halt}] 2: the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood" [syn: {stoppage}] 3: a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends" [syn: {stopover}, {layover}] 4: 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" [syn: {arrest}, {check}, {halt}, {hitch}, {stay}, {stoppage}] 5: a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta" 6: a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated" [syn: {stop consonant}, {occlusive}, {plosive consonant}, {plosive speech sound}, {plosive}] [ant: {continuant consonant}] 7: 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" [syn: {period}, {point}, {full stop}, {full point}] 8: (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" 9: a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically" [syn: {diaphragm}] 10: a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open" [syn: {catch}] 11: an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" [syn: {blockage}, {block}, {closure}, {occlusion}, {stoppage}] v 1: come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" [syn: {halt}] [ant: {start}] 2: put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" [syn: {discontinue}, {cease}, {give up}, {quit}, {lay off}] [ant: {continue}] 3: stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process" [syn: {halt}, {block}, {kibosh}] 4: interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence" [syn: {stop over}] 5: cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief" [ant: {start}] 6: prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negociations" [syn: {break}, {break off}, {discontinue}] 7: 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" [syn: {check}, {turn back}, {arrest}, {contain}, {hold back}] 8: seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace" [syn: {intercept}] 9: 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 ends in a pianissimo" [syn: {end}, {finish}, {terminate}, {cease}] [ant: {begin}] 10: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: {barricade}, {block}, {blockade}, {block off}, {block up}, {bar}] 11: stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!" [syn: {hold on}] [also: {stopping}, {stopped}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: stopped adj 1: used of string or hole or pipe of instruments [ant: {unstopped}] 2: (of a nose) blocked; "a stopped (or stopped-up) nose" [syn: {stopped-up(a)}, {stopped up(p)}] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: stopped See {stop} From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 131 Moby Thesaurus words for "stopped": accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arrested, articulated, assimilated, back, backward, barytone, behindhand, belated, bilabial, blocked, bound, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, choked, choked up, clogged, clogged up, close, congested, consonant, consonantal, constipated, continuant, costive, delayed, delayed-action, dental, detained, dissimilated, dorsal, flat, foul, fouled, front, full, glide, glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, held up, high, hung up, in a bind, in abeyance, infarcted, intonated, jammed, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, late, lateral, latish, lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, moratory, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, never on time, obstipated, obstructed, occlusive, open, overdue, oxytone, packed, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plugged, plugged up, posttonic, retarded, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, slow, soft, sonant, stopped up, stressed, strong, stuffed, stuffed up, surd, syllabic, tardy, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unpunctual, unready, unrounded, unstressed, untimely, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide
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