Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)stop, haltthe event of something ending“it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill” (n)stop, stoppagethe act of stopping something“the third baseman made some remarkable stops”,
“his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood” (n)stop, stopover, layovera brief stay in the course of a journey“they made a stopover to visit their friends” (n)arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppagethe 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” (n)stopa spot where something halts or pauses“his next stop is Atlanta” (n)period, point, full stop, stop, full pointa 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’” (n)stop(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” (n)diaphragm, stopa mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens“the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically” (n)catch, stopa restraint that checks the motion of something“he used a book as a stop to hold the door open” Verbs
(v)stop, haltcome to a halt, stop moving“the car stopped”,
“She stopped in front of a store window” (v)stop, halt, block, kiboshstop from happening or developing“Block his election”,
“Halt the process” (v)stop, stop overinterrupt a trip“we stopped at Aunt Mary's house”,
“they stopped for three days in Florence” (v)stopcause to end“stop a car”,
“stop the thief” (v)check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold backhold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of“Arrest the downward trend”,
“Check the growth of communism in South East Asia”,
“Contain the rebel movement”,
“Turn back the tide of communism” (v)intercept, stopseize on its way“The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace” (v)end, stop, finish, terminate, ceasehave 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 ends in a pianissimo” (v)hold on, stopstop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments“Hold on a moment!”