stop
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
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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 and Norwegian Bokmål stoppe (“to stop”), Icelandic, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish 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.
Inflected forms:
form: stops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stopped
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: stop
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: stop
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: stopped
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: stop
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: stoppest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: stopped
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: stoppedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: stops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stoppeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: stopped
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: stop
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: stopped
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: stop
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: stopped
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: stop
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: stopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stap
pos: verb
tags: alternative
dialectal
obsolete
form: stahp
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: stawp
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: To cease moving.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I stopped at the traffic lights.
gloss: Not to continue.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The riots stopped when police moved in.
Soon the rain will stop.
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.
gloss: To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.
This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him.
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?
gloss: To cease; to no longer continue.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.
gloss: To cause (something) to come to an end.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The referees stopped the fight.
gloss: To interrupt, prevent or end the activity of someone or something.
pos: verb
tags: causative
transitive
examples: Don't let me stop you working.
When they have finished the milk they must be patted and squeezed to stop them exploding.
gloss: To close or block an opening.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He stopped the wound with gauze.
Rotten leaves and branches have stopped the gutter.
I've had the cracks in the wall stopped with mortar by the builders.
gloss: To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
often
transitive
examples: To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.
gloss: To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to stop with a friend
He stopped for two weeks at the inn.
He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.
Springhaven had done so well last week, that this week it meant to do still better, by stopping at home till the money was gone, and making short work afterwards.
She’s not going away. She’s going to stop here forever.
gloss: To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
pos: verb
gloss: To punctuate.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: [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.
gloss: To make fast; to stopper.
pos: verb
gloss: To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: th-stopping
gloss: To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To take out of service for repair, servicing or examination.
pos: verb
examples: The mechanical foreman is also present, and he gives a progress report of engines under repair and those stopped for their periodical routine examination.
gloss: To quit partaking in the use of or participation in (something).
pos: verb
examples: She stopped heroin last year.
He stopped football to focus on acting.
Synonyms: desist
halt
cease
discontinue
terminate
freeze
cancel
hang around
linger
loiter
pause
stop over
anchor
astand
draw up
grind to a halt
hold
immobilize
leave off
rest
stall
stay
stint
stop
swike
arrest
Antonyms: continue
go
move
proceed
continue
proceed
continue
move
continue
move
accelerate
set in motion
Derived words: 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
instop
misstop
plow-stop
rain stopped play
short-stop
showstopping
stap my vital
stop a bullet
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
stoperato
stopgap
stop-go
stop-go animation
stop into
stop it
stop lead
stop light
stop list
stopout
stopover
stoppable
stoppage
stopper
stoppie
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
unstoppability
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: stop
lang: Arabic
word: أَوْقَفَ
roman: ʔawqafa
lang: Arabic
word: وَقَفَ
roman: waqafa
lang: Arabic
word: وَقَّف
roman: wəggəf
lang: Arabic
word: وَگَّف
roman: wəggəf
lang: Azerbaijani
word: dayandırmaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: durdurmaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: saxlamaq
lang: Azerbaijani
word: əyləmək
lang: Belarusian
word: спыня́ць
roman: spynjácʹ
lang: Belarusian
word: спыні́ць
roman: spynícʹ
lang: Bengali
word: থামানো
roman: thamanō
lang: Bengali
word: আটকানো
roman: aṭkanō
lang: Bulgarian
word: спи́рам
roman: spíram
lang: Burmese
word: ရပ်
roman: rap
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 停下
roman: tíngxià
lang: Czech
word: zastavit
lang: Dutch
word: aanhouden
lang: Dutch
word: stoppen
lang: Esperanto
word: haltigi
lang: Estonian
word: peatama
lang: Finnish
word: pysäyttää
lang: French
word: arrêter
lang: Galician
word: parar
lang: Georgian
word: აჩერებს
roman: ačerebs
lang: Georgian
word: გააჩერებს
roman: gaačerebs
lang: German
word: anhalten
lang: German
word: stoppen
lang: German
word: aufhalten
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἵστημι
roman: hístēmi
lang: Hebrew
word: עָצַר
roman: 'atsár
lang: Hindi
word: रोकना
roman: roknā
lang: Hungarian
word: megállít
lang: Hungarian
word: leállít
lang: Hungarian
word: megakadályoz
lang: Ingrian
word: piättää
lang: Ingrian
word: asettaa
lang: Irish
word: stad
lang: Irish
word: coisc
lang: Italian
word: fermare
lang: Japanese
word: 止める
roman: tomeru
lang: Kapampangan
word: pigilan
lang: Kashmiri
word: رُکاوُن
roman: rukāvun
lang: Kashmiri
word: ٹھٔہراوُن
roman: ṭhạhrāvun
lang: Korean
word: 멈추다
roman: meomchuda
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: rawestandin
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: sekinandin
lang: Latin
word: sistere
lang: Latin
word: cohibeo
lang: Latin
word: inhibeo
lang: Latin
word: cesso
lang: Latin
word: detineo
lang: Latin
word: quiesco
lang: Malay
word: memberhentikan
lang: Malayalam
word: നിർത്തുക
roman: niṟttuka
lang: Marathi
word: थांबवणे
roman: thāmbavṇe
lang: Neapolitan
word: fermà
lang: Norman
word: arrêter
lang: Persian
word: نگه داشتن
roman: negah dâštan
lang: Persian
word: بازداشتن
roman: bâzdâštan
lang: Polish
word: zatrzymać
lang: Portuguese
word: parar
lang: Quechua
word: alqay
lang: Russian
word: остана́вливать
roman: ostanávlivatʹ
lang: Russian
word: останови́ть
roman: ostanovítʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zaustavljati
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: zaustaviti
lang: Slovak
word: zastaviť
lang: Slovene
word: zaustavljati
lang: Slovene
word: zaustaviti
lang: Somali
word: joogin
lang: Somali
word: joojin
lang: Spanish
word: parar
lang: Spanish
word: detener
lang: Spanish
word: entullecer
lang: Swedish
word: stanna
lang: Swedish
word: stoppa
lang: Tamil
word: தடு
roman: taṭu
lang: Tamil
word: நிறுத்து
roman: niṟuttu
lang: Telugu
word: ఆపు
roman: āpu
lang: Thai
word: หยุด
roman: yùt
lang: Tocharian B
word: tänk-
lang: Tok Pisin
word: holim
lang: Turkish
word: durdurmak
lang: Ukrainian
word: зупиня́ти
roman: zupynjáty
lang: Ukrainian
word: зупини́ти
roman: zupynýty
lang: Urdu
word: روکنا
roman: roknā
lang: Welsh
word: stopio
lang: Záparo
word: achichanu
lang: Zazaki
word: vındarnen