What is the meaning of stops?

noun

• The event of something ending.
  • usage: "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
  • synonyms: stop, halt
• The act of stopping something.
  • usage: "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
  • synonyms: stop, stoppage
• A brief stay in the course of a journey.
  • usage: "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
  • synonyms: stop, stopover, layover
• The state of inactivity following an interruption.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage
• A spot where something halts or pauses.
  • usage: "his next stop is Atlanta"
  • synonyms: stop
• A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it.
  • usage: "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
  • synonyms: stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive
• A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations.
  • usage: "in England they call a period a stop"
  • synonyms: period, point, full stop, stop, full point
• Music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes. (
  • usage: "the organist pulled out all the stops"
  • synonyms: stop
• A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens.
  • usage: "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"
  • synonyms: diaphragm, stop
• A restraint that checks the motion of something.
  • usage: "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
  • synonyms: catch, stop
• An obstruction in a pipe or tube.
  • usage: "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
  • synonyms: blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage
• A gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card.
  • synonyms: Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle

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