More meanings / definitions of Stop or words, sentences containing Stop?
Stop-over (a.): Permitting one to stop over; as, a stop-over check or ticket. See To stop over, under Stop, v. i.
Stop (v. t.): To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.
Stop (n.): Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed.
Stop (v. t.): To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
Balk (v. i.): To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks.
Forestall (v. t.): To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market.
Stop (v. i.): To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
Long-stop (n.): One who is set to stop balls which pass the wicket keeper.
Stop (v. t.): To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
Pause (n.): To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.
Stop (v. i.): To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.
Mixture (n.): An organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges of pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and compound stops; -- called also furniture stop. It consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone.
Stop (v. t.): To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.
Stop (n.): In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.
Halt (v. i.): To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still.
Stanch (v. t.): To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound.
Bow (v. i.): To stop.
Hoy (interj.): Ho! Halloe! Stop!
Basta (interj.): Enough; stop.
Stopping (p. pr. & vb. n.): of Stop
Stopped (imp. & p. p.): of Stop
Stint (v. t.): To put an end to; to stop.
Stayless (a.): Without stop or delay.
Stint (v. i.): To stop; to cease.
Courb (v. i.): To bend; to stop; to bow.
Still (a.): To stop, as noise; to silence.
Stoak (v. t.): To stop; to choke.
Sew (v. t.): To close or stop by ssewing; -- often with up; as, to sew up a rip.
Anchor (v. i.): To stop; to fix or rest.
Lin (v. i.): To yield; to stop; to cease.
