Definition of Stops

Noun: stops  stóps

1. 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
   - Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle

Noun: stop  stóp

1. The event of something ending
   "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill";
   - halt
    
2. The act of stopping something
   "the third baseman made some remarkable stops";
   - stoppage
    
3. A brief stay in the course of a journey
   "they made a stop to visit their friends";
   - stopover, layover
    
4. The state of inactivity following an interruption
   "he spent the entire stop in his seat";
   - arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stoppage
    
5. A spot where something halts or pauses
   "his next stop is Atlanta"
    
6. A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
   "his stop consonants are too aspirated";
   - stop consonant, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive
    
7. A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
   - period, point, full stop, full point
    
8. (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"
    
9. A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
   "the new cameras adjust the stop automatically";
   - diaphragm
    
10. A restraint that checks the motion of something
    "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open";
    - catch
     
11. An obstruction in a pipe or tube
    - blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stoppage

Verb: stop (stopped,stopping)  stóp

1. Come to a halt, stop moving
   "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window";
   - halt
    
2. Put an end to a state or an activity
   "stop teasing your little brother";
   - discontinue, cease, give up, quit, lay off
    
3. Prevent from happening or developing
   "stop the process";
   - halt, block, kibosh
    
4. Interrupt a trip
   "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"; "we stopped over at Aunt Mary's house";
   - stop over
    
5. Cause to stop
   "stop a car"; "stop the thief"
    
6. Prevent completion
   "stop the project";
   - break, break off, discontinue
    
7. Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
   "stop the growth of communism in South East Asia";
   - check, turn back, arrest, contain, hold back
    
8. Seize on its way
   "The fighter plane was ordered to stop an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace";
   - intercept
    
9. 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";
   - end, finish, terminate, cease
    
10. Render unsuitable for passage
    "stop the busy road";
    - barricade, block, blockade, block off, block up, bar
     
11. Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
    "stop a moment!";
    - hold on

See also:
stoppling
stopt

Anagrams containing the word stops

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