Noun:
1: halt, stop the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
2: stoppage, stop the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
3: stop, stopover, layover a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
4: arrest, check, halt, stop, stay, stoppage, hitch 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"
5: stop a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta"
6: stop consonant, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, occlusive, stop, plosive a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
7: point, full stop, full point, stop, period 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"
8: 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"
9: stop, diaphragm a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"
10: stop, catch a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
11: occlusion, blockage, stoppage, closure, stop, block an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
Verb:
1: stop, halt come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
2: give up, lay off, quit, cease, stop, discontinue put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
3: block, stop, kibosh, halt stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
4: stop over, stop interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"
5: stop cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"
6: stop, break off, break, discontinue prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"
7: contain, arrest, check, turn back, stop, hold back 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"
8: stop, intercept seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"
9: cease, finish, stop, terminate, end 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"
10: barricade, bar, block up, block, stop, block off, blockade render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
11: hold on, stop stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"