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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: stop n 1: the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill" [syn: {stop}, {halt}] 2: the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood" [syn: {stop}, {stoppage}] 3: a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends" [syn: {stop}, {stopover}, {layover}] 4: the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" [syn: {arrest}, {check}, {halt}, {hitch}, {stay}, {stop}, {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" [syn: {stop consonant}, {stop}, {occlusive}, {plosive consonant}, {plosive speech sound}, {plosive}] [ant: {continuant}, {continuant consonant}] 7: 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" [syn: {period}, {point}, {full stop}, {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 diaphragm automatically" [syn: {diaphragm}, {stop}] 10: a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open" [syn: {catch}, {stop}] 11: an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" [syn: {blockage}, {block}, {closure}, {occlusion}, {stop}, {stoppage}] v 1: come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" [syn: {stop}, {halt}] [ant: {get going}, {go}, {start}] 2: put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" [syn: {discontinue}, {stop}, {cease}, {give up}, {quit}, {lay off}] [ant: {bear on}, {carry on}, {continue}, {preserve}, {uphold}] 3: stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process" [syn: {stop}, {halt}, {block}, {kibosh}] 4: interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence" [syn: {stop}, {stop over}] 5: cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief" [ant: {start}, {start up}] 6: prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" [syn: {break}, {break off}, {discontinue}, {stop}] 7: hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism" [syn: {check}, {turn back}, {arrest}, {stop}, {contain}, {hold back}] 8: seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace" [syn: {intercept}, {stop}] 9: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" [syn: {end}, {stop}, {finish}, {terminate}, {cease}] [ant: {begin}, {start}] 10: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: {barricade}, {block}, {blockade}, {stop}, {block off}, {block up}, {bar}] 11: stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!" [syn: {hold on}, {stop}]