Definition of "Stop" :

noun: a brief stay in the course of a journey

"They made a stopover to visit their friends."

noun: the act of stopping something

"The third baseman made some remarkable stops."

noun: an obstruction in a pipe or tube

noun: a restraint that checks the motion of something

"He used a book as a stop to hold the door open."

noun: a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens

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: 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."

noun: a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

"His stop consonants are too aspirated."

noun: the event of something ending

"It came to a stop at the bottom of the hill."

noun: a spot where something halts or pauses

"His next stop is Atlanta."

noun: the state of inactivity following an interruption

"He spent the entire stop in his seat."

verb: prevent completion

"Stop the project."

verb: stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments

verb: hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

verb: seize on its way

verb: render unsuitable for passage

"Stop the busy road."

verb: cause to stop

"Stop a car."

verb: come to a halt, stop moving

"The car stopped."

verb: interrupt a trip

"We stopped at Aunt Mary's house."

verb: stop from happening or developing

verb: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

"Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other."

verb: put an end to a state or an activity