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Stops

noun
1.
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.  Synonyms: boodle, Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket.


Stop

verb
(past & past part. stopped; pres. part. stopping)
1.
Come to a halt, stop moving.  Synonym: halt.  "She stopped in front of a store window"
2.
Put an end to a state or an activity.  Synonyms: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, quit.
3.
Stop from happening or developing.  Synonyms: block, halt, kibosh.  "Halt the process"
4.
Interrupt a trip.  Synonym: stop over.  "They stopped for three days in Florence"
5.
Cause to stop.  "Stop the thief"
6.
Prevent completion.  Synonyms: break, break off, discontinue.  "Break off the negotiations"
7.
Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of.  Synonyms: arrest, check, contain, hold back, turn back.  "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia" , "Contain the rebel movement" , "Turn back the tide of communism"
8.
Seize on its way.  Synonym: intercept.
9.
Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.  Synonyms: cease, end, finish, terminate.  "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other" , "My property ends by the bushes" , "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"
10.
Render unsuitable for passage.  Synonyms: bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade.  "Barricade the streets" , "Stop the busy road"
11.
Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments.  Synonym: hold on.
noun
1.
The event of something ending.  Synonym: halt.
2.
The act of stopping something.  Synonym: stoppage.  "His stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
3.
A brief stay in the course of a journey.  Synonyms: layover, stopover.
4.
The state of inactivity following an interruption.  Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stoppage.  "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.
A spot where something halts or pauses.
6.
A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it.  Synonyms: occlusive, plosive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop consonant.
7.
A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations.  Synonyms: full point, full stop, period, point.
8.
(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes.
9.
A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens.  Synonym: diaphragm.
10.
A restraint that checks the motion of something.  Synonym: catch.
11.
An obstruction in a pipe or tube.  Synonyms: block, blockage, closure, occlusion, stoppage.



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"Stops" Quotes from Famous Books



... the cottage the rocks slope quickly to the beach, but on either side there is a stretch of sand pocketed among the rocks, and in the back a dune stops abruptly at the margin of wide salt meadows, creek-fed and unctuous, as befits the natural gardens ...
— The Garden, You, and I • Mabel Osgood Wright
... girl with a red parasol crosses the Ponte del Paradiso, making a brilliant silhouette against the blue sky. She stops to prattle with the man at the bell-shop just at the corner of the little calle. There are beautiful bells standing in rows in the window, one having a border of finely traced crabs and sea-horses at the base; another has a top like a Doge's cap, ...
— Penelope's Postscripts • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... sir," he answered. "The seaweed. Why doesn't it get all tangled like ropes, so that it stops the ship?" ...
— The Sandman: His Sea Stories • William J. Hopkins
... reformation is desired, cannot be certainly known beforehand. Reform is not a change in the substance, or in the primary modification of the object, but a direct application of a remedy to the grievance complained of. So far as that is removed, all is sure. It stops there; and if it fails, the substance which underwent the operation, at the very worst, is but where it was. All this, in effect, I think, but am not sure, I have said elsewhere. It cannot at this time be too often repeated; line upon line; precept upon precept; until it comes into the currency ...
— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke
... husbands, but they'll bring the boys into order, I hope, in time. Your brother Maurice got his commission soon after you left home, and, having seen some service in America, has lately returned home on leave. I was in hopes that he would have fallen in with you. Denis stops at home to help me mind the house and keep things in order. The rest have grown into strapping lads, and it's time to be sending them out into the world to seek their fortunes. The Fitzgeralds and the Daleys are staying at ...
— Paddy Finn • W. H. G. Kingston


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