stop n
1. the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill" [syn: halt]
2. the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood" [syn: stoppage]
3. a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends" [syn: stopover, layover]
4. the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "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" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stoppage]
5. a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta"
6. a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated" [syn: stop consonant, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive] [ant: continuant consonant}]
7. a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop" [syn: period, point, full stop, full point]
8. (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes; "the organist pulled out all the stops"
9. a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically" [syn: diaphragm]
10. a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open" [syn: catch] 1
11. an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" [syn: blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stoppage]

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• Stop consonant: A stop, plosive, or occlusive is a consonant sound produced by stopping the airflow in the vocal tract . Plosives are properly stops with ...
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