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What does stop mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word stop? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) To cease moving.
  2. (intransitive) To not continue.
  3. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
  4. (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
  5. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
  6. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
  7. (photography) To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
  8. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
  9. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
  10. (obsolete) To punctuate.
  11. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
Noun
  1. (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.
  2. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
  3. A device intended to block the path of a moving object
  4. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis; a plosive.
  5. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
  6. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
  7. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
  8. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
  9. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
  10. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
  11. (photography) An f-stop.
  12. (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.
  13. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
  14. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
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