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Definition of stop

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Stop (n.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far..

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Viol :: Viol (n.) A stringed musical instrument formerly in use, of the same form as the violin, but larger, and having six strings, to be struck with a bow, and the neck furnished with frets for stopping the strings..

Stent :: Stent (v. t.) To keep within limits; to restrain; to cause to stop, or cease; to stint..

Halt :: Halt (n.) A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress..

Stopper :: Stopper (n.) A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something..

Slidometer :: Slidometer (n.) An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.

Bung :: Bung (n.) The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.

Cork :: Cork (n.) A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork..

Register :: Register (v. i.) A stop or set of pipes in an organ.

Delay :: Delay (v. i.) To move slowly; to stop for a time; to linger; to tarry.

Unstop :: Unstop (v. t.) To take the stopple or stopper from; as, to unstop a bottle or a cask..

Brake :: Brake (v. t.) A piece of mechanism for retarding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine..

Obturation :: Obturation (n.) The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening..

Foreclose :: Foreclose (v. t.) To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.

Blastopore :: Blastopore (n.) The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron..

Shut :: Shut (a.) Formed by complete closure of the mouth passage, and with the nose passage remaining closed; stopped, as are the mute consonants, p, t, k, b, d, and hard g..

Avast :: Avast (a.) Cease; stop; stay.

Piccolo :: Piccolo (n.) An organ stop, with a high, piercing tone..

Oppilation :: Oppilation (n.) The act of filling or crowding together; a stopping by redundant matter; obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines..

Caveat :: Caveat (n.) A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc..

Station :: Station (n.) A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc..