stop

I stopped at the traffic lights.

The riots stopped when police moved in.

Soon the rain will stop.

Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.

This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him.

A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails.[…]This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?

2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):

(transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.

One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.

Please stop telling me those terrible jokes.

(transitive) To cease; to no longer continue (doing something, especially something wrong or undesirable, or something causing irritation or annoyance).

The referees stopped the fight.

(transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.

When they have finished the milk they must be patted and squeezed to stop them exploding.

1988, Jeanne Willis, Tony Ross, Dr Xargle's Book of Earthlets:

(causative, transitive, chiefly UK) To end someone else's activity.

He stopped the wound with gauze.

Rotten leaves and branches have stopped the gutter.

I've had the cracks in the wall stopped with mortar by the builders.

(transitive) To close or block an opening.

To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.

(transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.

to stop with a friend

He stopped for two weeks at the inn.

He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.

by stopping at home till the money was gone

She’s not going away. She’s going to stop here forever.

1931, E. F. Benson, chapter 7, in Mapp & Lucia:

(intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.

(music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.

if his sentences were properly stopped

1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Alfieri and Salomon the Florentine Jew”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

th-stopping

(phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.

It will be noted that the specialist would have refused to stop the stock for broker X if he (the specialist) had only one order to sell at 85.

1952, Charles Amos Dice, Wilford John Eiteman, The Stock Market, page 144:

(finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.

en-verb

stop (third-person singular simple present stops, present participle stopping, simple past and past participle stopped)

stops (present singular third-person)
stopping (participle present)
stopped (participle past)
stopped (past)
stop (infinitive)

continue

antonym(s) of “to cause to cease moving”

continue

antonym(s) of “to cause to come to an end”

if you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging

→ Finnish: stop

→ French: stop

→ Greek: στοπ (stop)

→ Hungarian: stop

→ Irish: stop

→ Italian: stop

→ Latvian: stop

→ Ottoman Turkish: استوپ (istop)

→ Polish: stop

→ Portuguese: stop

→ Russian: стоп (stop)

→ Spanish: stop

→ Welsh: stopio

→ Tok Pisin: stap

megakadályoz

to cause to cease progressing, to prevent

dayanmaq

to cease; to no longer continue (doing something)

tepışten

music: to regulate the sounds by shortening the vibrating part

From Middle English stoppen, stoppien, from Old English stoppian (“to stop, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn, from Proto-Germanic *stuppōną (“to stop, close”), *stuppijaną (“to push, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, *(s)tewb- (“to push; stick”), from *(s)tew- (“to bump; impact; butt; push; beat; strike; hit”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian stopje (“to stop, block”), West Frisian stopje (“to stop”), Dutch stoppen (“to stop”), Low German stoppen (“to stop”), German stopfen (“to be filling, stuff”), German stoppen (“to stop”), Danish stoppe (“to stop”), Swedish stoppa (“to stop”), Icelandic stoppa (“to stop”), Middle High German stupfen, stüpfen (“to pierce”). More at stuff, stump.
Alternative etymology derives Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn from an assumed Vulgar Latin *stūpāre, *stuppāre (“to stop up with tow”), from stūpa, stīpa, stuppa (“tow, flax, oakum”), from Ancient Greek στύπη (stúpē), στύππη (stúppē, “tow, flax, oakum”). This derivation, however, is doubtful, as the earliest instances of the Germanic verb do not carry the meaning of "stuff, stop with tow". Rather, these senses developed later in response to influence from similar sounding words in Latin and Romance.


stop

They agreed to meet at the bus stop.

A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.

That stop was not planned.

It is […] doubtful […] whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection.

1722, Daniel Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year:

Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy.

1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:

It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them.

1693, [John Locke], “§107”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:

An action of stopping; interruption of travel.

A fatal stop trauerst their headlong course

1595, Samuel Daniel, “(please specify the folio number)”, in The First Fowre Bookes of the Ciuile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke, London: […] P[eter] Short for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:

So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.

a. 1729, John Rogers, The Advantages of conversing with good Men:

That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.

A device intended to block the path of a moving object

(engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.

(architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.

door stop

(linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.

A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.

The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.

(music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.

(music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.

(tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.

The Foxes were indebted to two crucial saves from keeper Kasper Schmeichel, who turned former Leicester defender Ben Chilwell's header on to a post then produced an even better stop to turn Mason Mount's powerful shot wide.

2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport:

(soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal

The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.

(zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.

The American Rabbit Breeders Association holds that the stops of a Dutch rabbit should be white from the toes to one third of the way along the foot.

(photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.

(photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.

The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.

(fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.

(UK, grammar, informal) Short for full stop.

ограничител

engineering: device for arresting or limiting motion

sulkija

architecture: member against which a door or window shuts

este

function that halts playback or recording

rekisteritappi

music: knob or pin to regulate the flow of air in an organ


stop

Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.


stop

(UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.

From Middle English stoppe, from Old English stoppa (“bucket, pail, a stop”), from Proto-Germanic *stuppô (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teub- (“to push, hit; stick, stump”). See stoup.
Cognates
Cognate with Norwegian stopp, stoppa (“deep well, recess”), Middle High German stubech, stübich (“barrel, vat, unit of measure”) (German Stübchen). Related also to Middle Low German stōp (“beaker, flask”), Middle High German stouf (“beaker, flask”), Norwegian staupa (“goblet”), Icelandic staupa (“shot-glass”), Old English stēap (“a stoup, beaker, drinking vessel, cup, flagon”). Cognate to Albanian shtambë (“amphora, bucket”).


stop

For neutralino masses below approximately 700 GeV, gluino masses of less than 1.78 TeV and 1.76 TeV are excluded at the 95% CL in simplified models of the pair production of gluinos decaying via sbottom and stop, respectively.

2016, ATLAS Collaboration, “Search for pair production of gluinos decaying via stop and sbottom in events with b-jets and large missing transverse momentum in pp collisions at √=13 TeV with the ATLAS detector”, in arXiv:

(physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.