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stop English

Meaning stop meaning

What does stop mean?
Definitions in simple English

stop Verb

— If you stop, you do not move; you rest. He stopped after running 2 miles. — If you stop something or somebody, you prevent them from moving or doing something. You cause the person to cease moving or progressing. The police tried to stop the criminal, but he was too fast. — If you stop doing something, you are not doing it anymore. You have ceased doing it. I stopped playing video games and went back to working on my project. — If you stop, you come to the end of the time when one is doing something. You start doing a different thing or start doing nothing.

stop Noun

— A stop is a place where buses, cars, taxis, or other vehicles halt to let passengers board or leave (get on or off).

stop

— verb (= halt) come to a halt, stop moving the car stopped She stopped in front of a store window — verb (= quit) put an end to a state or an activity Quit teasing your little brother — verb (= halt, block) stop from happening or developing Block his election Halt the process — verb cause to stop stop a car stop the thief — verb interrupt a trip we stopped at Aunt Mary's house they stopped for three days in Florence — verb (= break, break off) prevent completion stop the project break off the negotiations — noun the event of something ending it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill — noun (= stoppage) the act of stopping something the third baseman made some remarkable stops his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood — noun (= stopover) a brief stay in the course of a journey they made a stopover to visit their friends — verb (= check, turn back, arrest, contain, hold back) 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 South East Asia Contain the rebel movement Turn back the tide of communism — verb (= intercept) seize on its way The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace — noun a spot where something halts or pauses his next stop is Atlanta — verb (= end, terminate) 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 — noun (= arrest, check, halt, stay) 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 — noun (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 — noun (= stop consonant) a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it his stop consonants are too aspirated — noun a restraint that checks the motion of something he used a book as a stop to hold the door open — noun (= diaphragm) a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically — verb (= hold on) stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments Hold on a moment! — noun (= period, full stop) 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 — verb (= barricade, block) render unsuitable for passage block the way barricade the streets stop the busy road — noun (= blockage) an obstruction in a pipe or tube we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe

Synonyms stop synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as stop?

stop English » English

halt cease end prevent check finish quit pause hinder block obstruct discontinue stay terminate impede arrest rest stand cessation detain restrain interrupt intercept stoppage give up suspend delay close break wait conclude stand still plug hold back desist station leave off complete break off abate suppress stall hold up forbid brake thwart prohibit oppose come to a stop bar

Stop English » English

objection

Topics stop topics

What do people use stop to talk about?
States Time Aspectual time Start something

Stop something
Language and thought Want Ask permission

Prevent
Work and occupation Tool

Machine
Physical actions Move Travel

Travel by land
Physical actions Move Not moving

Stop moving
States Time Continue, persevere

Interrupt
Physical actions Move Manner of movement Move quickly

Move slowly
Universe, creation Sky Weather

Rain
Person Body Internal organs

Heart
Person Body functions

Bleed, blood
Language and thought Want Decide, plan

Determined
Language and thought Communication Sign, symbol

Laugh
Social behavior Social activity Come together, form a group

Visit
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Sports
Social behavior Conflict Peace Make peace

Stop fighting
Work and occupation Occupation Working with water

Controlling water
Physical actions Move Move toward something

Move past, over, through
States Time Take time

Forever
States Time Aspectual time Once

Again

Conjugation stop conjugation

How do you conjugate stop?

stop · verb

Examples stop examples

How do I use stop in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I advise you to stop smoking.
I'll stop giving them chocolate on Valentine's Day.
No one is waiting at the bus stop. We may have missed the bus.
Stop beating on the door!
You must stop smoking.
That is the bus stop.
The bus had already left when we got to the bus stop.
He got off at the next bus stop.
You really must stop smoking.
Stop it! You're making her feel uncomfortable!
Stop embarrassing me.
Stop asking me for a drink! Go get it yourself.
Stop criticizing me!
Stop criticizing me.
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
First, you have to stop smoking.
It is necessary for you to stop smoking.
Stop grumbling.
It's so painful. Stop it!
I wish she would stop playing that stupid music.
The express train does not stop between Shibuya and Naka-Meguro.
There is a bus stop near our school.
Stop beating around the bush and give it to me straight!

Movie subtitles

Then go! I won't stop you.
I should stop playing with kids.
We have to stop, shit!
Stop the ambulance!
Please stop!
But if I stop aiming for something, my father will have died in vain.
If I have Lancelot, I should be able to stop them.
Stop it!
Stop giving me your pity!
STOP!
You have to stop saying that!
Stop, breathe, think!
Stop!
Stop.
France is willing to respect your freedom. - If you stop the war. - It's not up to me.
Stop teasing Yaouled.
Stop it! I'm a nurse!
Stop touching my things!
You had no right to stop him.
The thing is, they can never stop the peanut butter trade.
Anyone can play there if they want- - The nerds can't stop them.
Youssef, stop!
Stop it with this time!
Since we couldn't stop them from launching their balloons, we had to stop them from getting the materials they needed to make the balloons.
And the more they want to fight, the harder it is for me to make them stop fighting.
Stop it, Corvax!
Sylvia stop!
Wait. Stop. Hang on.
Just stop, just let me talk, darling, OK?
Please, Allison, stop!

News and current affairs

A well-designed fund would slow or stop deforestation, preserve biodiversity, and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide the burning of cleared forests.
The European Union should stop trying to do everything and concentrate on doing fewer things more effectively.
The Arthur Anderson, Enron, and WorldCom scandals didn't emerge out of thin air, but had their origins in the mid-1990s, when the US Treasury actually intervened to stop attempts by the supposedly independent accounting standards board to improve matters.
We wouldn't have to force (or subsidize) anyone to stop burning coal and oil.
Furthermore, Afghanistan's neighbors must do more to stop insurgents, weapons, money, and chemical precursors from flowing across their borders into the country.
The impressive gains don't stop there.
Do countries stop developing because outsiders are so intent on developing them?
The violence must stop.
The current negotiations are likely to fail, and even tightened sanctions may not stop Iran from trying to build nuclear weapons.
The Iranians also pledged to stop obstructing the Israeli-Arab peace process.
All in all, Greenspan served the United States and the world well through his stewardship of monetary policy, especially by what he did not do: trying to stop stock and housing speculation by halting the economy in its tracks.
Like the new wave of populists worldwide, Wilders promises to take his country back for his followers, to stop immigration (especially of Muslims), and to make the Netherlands Dutch again, whatever that means.
The US economy is in trouble, and the problems it spins off are unlikely to stop at the US border.
The bloodbath in Newtown is the time to stop feeding this gun frenzy.
Putting the ECB in charge should also help to stop the creeping disintegration process, which is not publicly visible, but is very real nonetheless.
Should any of this stop us from using adaptation strategies?
Moreover, once the eurozone had started refinancing Greece without any contribution from private creditors, it would be politically impossible to stop.
EU leaders should take advantage of the break in the fighting to stop reacting and start anticipating.
But Karzai's relationship with his sponsors has begun to sour, in part owing to charges that his government has failed to stop the resurgence of Afghanistan's huge opium trade.
Illegal logging continues today, with only ineffectual efforts made to stop it.
It is time to stop tiptoeing around the poorest countries' responsibility to do something essential about their own plight: emancipate their women.
No candidate on the horizon seems able to stop her.
During the last harvest, when 100-degree heat forced him, his wives, and his mother to stop picking cotton after a few hours, he returned to his compound to tend to his ducks.
If Nakasone, who now urges Koizumi to stop the Yasukuni pilgrimage, were to respond to Aso, he might simply extend the analogy: it is not in Japan's national interest to continue to inhale Koizumi's second-hand smoke.

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