stop

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a brief stay in the course of a journey

   they made a stopover to visit their friends

2. 2
   noun

   the act of stopping something

   the third baseman made some remarkable stops

3. 3
   noun

   a restraint that checks the motion of something

   They used a book as a stop to hold the door open.

4. 4
   noun

   a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes

   The organist pulled out all the stops as the fugue drew to a close.

5. 5
   noun

   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

6. 6
   noun

   a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

   My stop consonants are too aspirated.

7. 7
   noun

   the event of something ending

   it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill

8. 8
   noun

   a spot where something halts or pauses

   The next stop is Atlanta.

Etymology

From Middle English stoppen, stoppien, from Old English stoppian (“to stop, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn, from Proto-Germanic *stuppōną (“to stop, close”), *stuppijaną (“to push, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, *(s)tewb- (“to push; stick”), from *(s)tew- (“to bump; impact; butt; push; beat; strike; hit”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian stopje (“to stop, block”), West Frisian stopje (“to stop”), Dutch stoppen (“to stop”), Low German stoppen (“to stop”), German stopfen (“to be filling, stuff”), German stoppen (“to stop”), Danish stoppe (“to stop”), Swedish stop…