English

Pronunciation

• stŏp, /stɒp/, /stQp/

  Rhymes: -ɒp

Verb

Intransitive

to stop (stops, stopped, stopping)

1. to cease moving

   I stopped at the traffic lights.

2. to come to an end

   The riots stopped when police moved in.

   It will stop raining soon.

Translations

Transitive

1. to cause (something) to cease moving

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

2. to cause (something) to come to an end

   The referees stopped the fight.

Translations

Synonyms

cancel, cease, discontinue , terminate

Antonyms

continue, go, move, proceed

Noun

stop (stops )

1. a (usually marked) place where line buses or trams halt to let passengers get on and off

   They agreed to see each other at the bus stop.

2. an action of stopping; interruption of travel

   That stop was not planned.

3. a device intended to block the path of a moving object; as, a door stop
4. (Linguistics) a consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis
5. a symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
6. Short for a stopper, used in the phrase 'pull out all the stops'.
7. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible

Synonyms

• (4) plosive

Translations

Abverb

1. Prone to halting or hesitation.

   He stop started his car.

   He's stop still.

   (Note that in the phrase 'stop walking' for instance both 'stop' and 'walking' are adjectives.)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA : /stop/
• SAMPA : /stop/

Noun

stop m (plural: stoppen , diminutive stopje , plural diminutive stopjes )

1. an electric fuse
2. an action of stopping

Verb

stop

1. first person singular indicative of verb stoppen

Translations

• English: stop