stop
Forms
- present (v1)
- stop
- past (v2)
- stopped
- past participle (v3)
- stopped
- present participle
- stopping
- 3rd person singular
- stops
- Plural
- stops
Definitions
1.To cease moving.
- I stopped at the traffic lights.
2.Not to continue.
- The riots stopped when police moved in.
- Soon the rain will stop.
3.To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.
- This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him.
4.To cease; to no longer continue.
- One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.
1.A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- They agreed to meet at the bus stop.
2.An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy.
- It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them.
- It is […] doubtful […] whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection.
3.A device intended to block the path of a moving object
4.That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #257
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Very common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Common
Related words
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”).