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Definition of stop

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Stop (v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity..

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Wait :: Wait (v. i.) To stay or rest in expectation; to stop or remain stationary till the arrival of some person or event; to rest in patience; to stay; not to depart.

Stop :: Stop (n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.

Short :: Short (adv.) In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short..

Stay :: Stay (n.) Cessation of motion or progression; stand; stop.

Menostasis :: Menostasis (n.) Stoppage of the mences.

Stop :: Stop (v. i.) To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend..

Prevent :: Prevent (v. t.) To intercept; to hinder; to frustrate; to stop; to thwart.

Lodge :: Lodge (n.) To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.

Wear :: Wear (n.) A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like..

Cheval-de-frise :: Cheval-de-frise (n.) A piece of timber or an iron barrel traversed with iron-pointed spikes or spears, five or six feet long, used to defend a passage, stop a breach, or impede the advance of cavalry, etc..

Kent Bugle :: Kent bugle () A curved bugle, having six finger keys or stops, by means of which the performer can play upon every key in the musical scale; -- called also keyed bugle, and key bugle..

Stead :: Stayship (n.) A remora, -- fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them..

Surcease :: Surcease (n.) Cessation; stop; end.

Still :: Still (a.) To stop, as noise; to silence..

Nonplus :: Nonplus (v. t.) To puzzle; to confound; to perplex; to cause to stop by embarrassment.

Tompion :: Tompion (n.) A stopper of a cannon or a musket. See Tampion.

Stopple :: Stopping-out (n.) A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts..

Plinth :: Plinth (n.) In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of a pedestal; hence, in general, the lowest member of a base; a sub-base; a block upon which the moldings of an architrave or trim are stopped at the bottom. See Illust. of Column..

Stop :: Stop (v. i.) To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop..

Estophed :: Estophed (imp. & p. p.) of Esto.