stop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: stŏp
ipa: /stɒp/
enpr: stäp
ipa: /stɑp/
ipa: [stɔp]
ipa: [stɔ(ː)p]
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: stops
form: stopping
form: stopped
form: stopped
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: stop
form: stop
form: stopped
form: stop
form: stoppest
form: stopped
form: stoppedst
form: stops
form: stoppeth
form: stopped
form: stop
form: stopped
form: stop
form: stopped
form: stop
form: -
form: stopping
form: stopped
form: stap
form: stahp
form: stawp
Etymology: From Middle English stoppen, stoppien, from Old English stoppian (“to stop, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn, from Proto-Germanic *stuppōną (“to stop, close”), *stuppijaną (“to push, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, *(s)tewb- (“to push; stick”), from *(s)tew- (“to bump; impact; butt; push; beat; strike; hit”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian stopje (“to stop, block”), West Frisian stopje (“to stop”), Dutch stoppen (“to stop”), Low German stoppen (“to stop”), German stopfen (“to be filling, stuff”), German stoppen (“to stop”), Danish stoppe (“to stop”), Swedish stoppa (“to stop”), Icelandic stoppa (“to stop”), Middle High German stupfen, stüpfen (“to pierce”). More at stuff, stump.
Alternative etymology derives Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn from an assumed Vulgar Latin *stūpāre, *stuppāre (“to stop up with tow”), from stūpa, stīpa, stuppa (“tow, flax, oakum”), from Ancient Greek στύπη (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.
Senses: examples: text: I stopped at the traffic lights.
glosses: To cease moving.
examples: text: The riots stopped when police moved in.
text: Soon the rain will stop.
text: 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 group stopped to say the last prayer.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Not to continue.
examples: text: The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.
text: This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him.
text: 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?
ref: 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):
glosses: To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
examples: text: One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.
antonyms: keep
glosses: To cease; to no longer continue.
examples: text: The referees stopped the fight.
glosses: To cause (something) to come to an end.
examples: text: Don't let me stop you working.
text: When they have finished the milk they must be patted and squeezed to stop them exploding.
ref: 1988, Jeanne Willis, Tony Ross, Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets:
info_templates: extra_data: words: along
with
gerund
(chiefly
UK)
along
with
from
along
with
gerund
(chiefly
US)
expansion: [with direct object, along with gerund (chiefly UK) or direct object, along with from, along with gerund (chiefly US)]
glosses: To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something.
examples: text: He stopped the wound with gauze.
text: Rotten leaves and branches have stopped the gutter.
text: I've had the cracks in the wall stopped with mortar by the builders.
glosses: To close or block an opening.
examples: text: To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
raw_tags: with "up" or "down"
examples: text: to stop with a friend
text: He stopped for two weeks at the inn.
text: He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.
text: by stopping at home till the money was gone
ref: 1887, R. D. Blackmore, Springhaven:
text: She’s not going away. She’s going to stop here forever.
ref: 1931, E. F. Benson, chapter 7, in Mapp & Lucia:
glosses: To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
examples: text: [Francesco] Guicciardini, if his sentences were properly stopt, would be found in general both full and concise, whatever may be asserted to the contrary by the fastidious and inattentive.
ref: 1826, Walter Savage Landor, “Conversation XIII. [Vittorio] Alfieri and Salomon, the Florentine Jew.”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 415:
glosses: To punctuate.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To make fast; to stopper.
examples: text: th-stopping
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
examples: text: It will be noted that the specialist would have refused to stop the stock for broker X if he (the specialist) had only one order to sell at 85.
ref: 1952, Charles Amos Dice, Wilford John Eiteman, The Stock Market, page 144:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
Synonyms: sense: to cease moving
word: brake
word: desist
word: halt
sense: not to continue
word: blin
word: cease
word: discontinue
word: terminate
sense: to cause to cease moving
word: arrest
word: freeze
sense: to cause to come to an end
word: blin
word: cancel
sense: to tarry
word: hang about
word: hang around
word: linger
word: loiter
word: pause
sense: to reside temporarily
word: lodge
word: stop over
word: anchor
word: astand
word: draw up
word: grind to a halt
word: hold
word: immobilize
word: leave off
word: rest
word: stall
word: stay
word: stint
word: stop
word: swike
Hypernyms: word: decelerate
Hyponyms: word: forstop
word: stop by
word: stop cock
word: stop down
word: stop in
word: stop off
word: stop out
word: stop over
word: stop up
word: unstop
word: heave to
word: lay by
word: lay to
word: jam
word: stick
word: freeze
word: pull over
Derived terms: couldn't stop a pig in a passage
does this train stop at
double-stop
earth-stopping
face that would stop a clock
go-stop
heart-stopping
if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging
plow-stop
rain stopped play
short-stop
showstopping
stop-action
stop and chop
stop-and-frisk
stop and frisk
stop-and-go
stop-and-go light
stop and run
stop-and-search
stop and smell the flowers
stop and smell the roses
stop at nothing
stopblock
stopboard
stop board
stopclock
stopcock
stop cold
stop dead
stop, drop and roll
stopgap
stop-go
stop-go animation
stop into
stop it
stop lead
stop light
stop list
stopover
stoppable
stopper
stop press
stop short
stop sign
stop someone in their tracks
stop someone's clock
stop-start
stop the bleeding
stop the car
stop the job
stop the lights
stop the presses
stop thief
stop thrust
stop-time
stop to smell the roses
stop traffic
stop two gaps with one bush
stopwatch
stop word
stop-work
the buck stops here