stop


Meanings

  • the event of something ending;
    • "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
  • the act of stopping something;
    • "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"
    • "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
  • a brief stay in the course of a journey;
    • "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
  • the state of inactivity following an interruption;
    • "he spent the entire stop in his seat"
  • a spot where something halts or pauses;
    • "his next stop is Atlanta"
  • a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it;
    • "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
  • 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"
  • (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"
  • a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens;
  • a restraint that checks the motion of something;
    • "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
  • an obstruction in a pipe or tube;
  • come to a halt, stop moving;
    • "the car stopped"
    • "She stopped in front of a store window"
  • put an end to a state or an activity;
  • stop from happening or developing;
  • interrupt a trip;
    • "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"
    • "they stopped for three days in Florence"
  • cause to stop;
    • "stop a car"
    • "stop the thief"
  • prevent completion;
    • "stop the project"
  • hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of;
  • seize on its way;
  • 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"
  • render unsuitable for passage;
    • "stop the busy road"
  • stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;
  • STOP v STOPPED or STOPT, STOPPING, STOPS to discontinue the progress or motion of


Scrabble Score: 6

stop is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

stop is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

stop is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary


Words With Friends Score: 7

stop is a valid Words With Friends word