stooping
stooping

stop


Definition: Meaning of, stop in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / stɒp /

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stop stopped stopped
Present Participle Third Person Singular
stopping stops
  1. not move [intransitive and transitive] to not walk, move, or travel any more, or to make someone or something do this
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  2. not continue [intransitive and transitive] to not continue, or to make someone or something not continue
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  3. not continue [intransitive and transitive] if you stop doing something, you do not continue to do it
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  4. pause [intransitive] to pause in an activity, journey etc in order to do something before you continue
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  5. prevent [transitive] to prevent someone from doing something or something from happening
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  6. stay [intransitive] British English informal to stay somewhere for a short time, especially at someone's house
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  7. will/would stop at nothing (to do something) to be ready to do anything to achieve something that you want to achieve
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  8. stop short of (doing) something to decide that you are not willing to do something wrong or dangerous, though you will do something similar that is less dangerous
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  9. money [transitive] if you stop an amount of money, you prevent it from being paid to someone
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  10. block also stop up [transitive] to block a hole or pipe so that water, smoke etc cannot go through it
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stop stops
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  1. come/roll/jerk/skid etc to a stop if a vehicle comes to a stop, it stops moving
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  2. come to a stop if an activity comes to a stop, it stops happening
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  3. bring something to a stop to stop something moving or happening
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  4. during journey a time or place when you stop during a journey for a short time
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  5. bus/train a place where a bus or train regularly stops for people to get on and off
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  6. put a stop to something to prevent something from continuing or happening
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  7. pull out all the stops to do everything you possibly can to make something happen and succeed
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  8. money the action or fact of telling your bank not to pay an amount of money to someone
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  9. music a handle that you push in or out in an ORGAN to control the amount of sound it produces
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  10. consonant a consonant sound, like /p/ or /k/, that you make by stopping the flow of air completely and then suddenly letting it out of your mouth
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stop used in phrases

  • bus stop (noun)
    1. a place at the side of a road, marked with a sign, where buses stop for passengers
  • diapason stop (noun)
    1. either of the two main stops on a pipe organ
  • flag stop (noun)
    1. a small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal
  • flue stop (noun)
    1. an organ stop with the tone of a flue pipe
  • full stop (noun)
    1. [countable] British English a point (.) that marks the end of a sentence or the short form of a word [=  period American English]
    full stop
    1. used at the end of a sentence to emphasize that you do not want to say any more about a subject [=  period American English]
  • glottal stop (noun)
    1. technical a speech sound made by completely closing and then opening your glottis, which in some forms of spoken English may take the place of a /t/ between vowel sounds or may be used before a vowel sound
  • labial stop (noun)
    1. a stop consonant that is produced with the lips
  • night-stop (noun)
    1. a break in a journey for the night
  • one-stop (adjective)
    1. one-stop shop/store etc a shop where you can buy many different things
  • organ stop (noun)
    1. a graduated set of organ pipes of like tone quality
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stop used in phrasal verbs

  • stop away (phrasal verb)
    1. to avoid going to a place
  • stop by (phrasal verb)
  • stop in (phrasal verb)
    1. to stay at home
  • stop off (phrasal verb)
    1. to visit somewhere before continuing to another place
  • stop on (phrasal verb)
    1. to remain at a place longer than you had intended to
  • stop out (phrasal verb)
    1. to not come home at night
  • stop over (phrasal verb)
    1. British English informal to spend the night at someone’s house
  • stop up (phrasal verb)
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