Stops — synonyms, stops antonyms, definition

1. stops (Noun)

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stops (Noun) — A gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card.

stops (Noun) — The event of something ending. ex. "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"

stops (Noun) — The act of stopping something. ex. "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"

stops (Noun) — A brief stay in the course of a journey. ex. "they made a stop to visit their friends"

stops (Noun) — The state of inactivity following an interruption. ex. "he spent the entire stop in his seat"

stops (Noun) — A spot where something halts or pauses. ex. "his next stop is Atlanta"

stops (Noun) — A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it. ex. "his stop consonants are too aspirated"

stops (Noun) — A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations.

stops (Noun) — (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes. ex. "the organist pulled out all the stops"

stops (Noun) — A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens. ex. "the new cameras adjust the stop automatically"

stops (Noun) — A restraint that checks the motion of something. ex. "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"

stops (Noun) — An obstruction in a pipe or tube.

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2. stops (Verb)

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stops (Verb) — Come to a halt, stop moving. ex. "the car stopped" ex. "She stopped in front of a store window"

stops (Verb) — Put an end to a state or an activity. ex. "stop teasing your little brother"

stops (Verb) — Prevent from happening or developing. ex. "stop the process"

stops (Verb) — Interrupt a trip. ex. "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house" ex. "they stopped for three days in Florence" ex. "we stopped over at Aunt Mary's house"

stops (Verb) — Cause to stop. ex. "stop a car" ex. "stop the thief"

stops (Verb) — Prevent completion. ex. "stop the project"

stops (Verb) — Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of. ex. "stop the growth of communism in South East Asia"

stops (Verb) — Seize on its way. ex. "The fighter plane was ordered to stop an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"

stops (Verb) — Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical. ex. "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"

stops (Verb) — Render unsuitable for passage. ex. "stop the busy road"

stops (Verb) — Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments. ex. "stop a moment!"

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