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stop 
noun
- the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
Synonyms: halt - the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
Synonyms: stoppage - a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
Synonyms: layover, stopover - 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"
Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stoppage - a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta"
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
Synonyms: occlusive, plosive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop consonant Antonyms: continuant consonant, continuant - 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"
Synonyms: full point, full stop, period, point - (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"
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"
Synonyms: diaphragm - a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
Synonyms: catch - an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
Synonyms: block, blockage, closure, occlusion, stoppage
verb
- come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
Synonyms: halt Antonyms: start, go, get going - put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
Synonyms: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, quit Antonyms: continue, uphold, carry on, bear on, preserve - stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
Synonyms: block, halt, kibosh - interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary''s house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"
Synonyms: stop over - cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief"
Antonyms: start, start up - prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negociations"
Synonyms: break, break off, discontinue - hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
Synonyms: arrest, check, contain, hold back, turn back - seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country''s airspace"
Synonyms: intercept - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony end
Synonyms: cease, end, finish, terminate Antonyms: begin, start - render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
Synonyms: bar, barricade, block, blockade, block off, block up - stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"
Synonyms: hold on
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