What is the meaning of stopping?

noun

• Fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members.
  • synonyms: fillet
• The kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch.
  • usage: "the violinist's stopping was excellent"

verb

• Come to a halt, stop moving.
  • usage: "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
  • synonyms: stop, halt
• Put an end to a state or an activity.
  • usage: "Quit teasing your little brother"
  • synonyms: discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off
• Stop from happening or developing.
  • usage: "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
  • synonyms: stop, halt, block, kibosh
• Interrupt a trip.
  • usage: "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"
  • synonyms: stop, stop over
• Cause to stop.
  • usage: "stop a car"; "stop the thief"
  • synonyms: stop
• Prevent completion.
  • usage: "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"
  • synonyms: break, break off, discontinue, stop
• Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of.
  • usage: "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
  • synonyms: check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back
• Seize on its way.
  • usage: "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"
  • synonyms: intercept, stop
• Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: end, stop, finish, terminate, cease
• Render unsuitable for passage.
  • usage: "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
  • synonyms: barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar
• Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments.
  • usage: "Hold on a moment"
  • synonyms: hold on, stop