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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"  Antonym: start.
2.
Put an end to a state or an activity.  Synonyms: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, quit.  Antonym: continue.
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"  Antonym: start.
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"  Antonym: begin.
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.  Antonym: continuant 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



... enemy; the horse leaps violently aside; and then the hunter has need of a tenacious seat in the saddle, for if he is thrown to the ground there is no hope for him. When he sees his attack defeated the buffalo resumes his flight, but if the shot be well directed he soon stops; for a few minutes he stands still, then totters and falls heavily ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 • Charles H. Sylvester
... said Samuel Wright "Furthermore, unless he stops dangling at her apron-strings, I shall stop his allowance, ...
— The Awakening of Helena Richie • Margaret Deland
... blown his nose on a handkerchief lent to him, for he had forgotten to bring his own, began to read the address. In this he was assisted by three masters of arts, one of whom, with a silver pen, pointed out the stops; the second with a small stick rapped his knuckles when he was to raise or lower his voice; and a third pulled his hair behind when he was to look Pantagruel in the face. Pantagruel began to chafe like a lion: {211} he turned first on one side, then on the other: ...
— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan
... Moore, rather proud of his knowledge. "Carted the logs in from ol' Baldy, more'n forty miles. One is the bunk-house; the other is whar Mendez stops when the ol' cuss is yere. Creep up a bit an' I'll show yer how the trail runs. Don't be afeerd; nobody kin see yer from ...
— The Strange Case of Cavendish • Randall Parrish
... child," Elsie replied, with a lofty toss of her head. "It's just what I do know. Robbie stops at home while you and me do all the errands and everything else too, ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various


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