English Dictionary

stop

/stɒp/

verb

(intransitive) To cease moving. / (intransitive) Not to continue. / (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing. / (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).

The car stopped suddenly.

意味（1）

(intransitive) To cease moving.

I stopped at the traffic lights.

意味（2）

(intransitive) Not to continue.

The riots stopped when police moved in.

意味（3）

(transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.

A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails.[…]This set-up solves several problems […]. Stopping high-speed trains wastes energy and time, so why not simply slow them down enough for a moving platform to pull alongside?

意味（4）

(transitive) To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).

One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.

意味（5）

(transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.

The referees stopped the fight.

意味（6）

(causative, transitive, chiefly UK) To end someone else's activity.

When they have finished the milk they must be patted and squeezed to stop them exploding.

意味（7）

(transitive) To close or block an opening.

He stopped the wound with gauze.

意味（8）

(transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.

To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.

意味（9）

(intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.

to stop with a friend

意味（10）

(music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.

意味（11）

(obsolete) To punctuate.

if his sentences were properly stopped

意味（12）

(nautical) To make fast; to stopper.

意味（13）

(phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.

th-stopping

意味（14）

(finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.

It will be noted that the specialist would have refused to stop the stock for broker X if he (the specialist) had only one order to sell at 85.