English Dictionary

stop

/stɒp/

noun

A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station. / An action of stopping; interruption of travel.

The bus stop is just around the corner.

意味（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.

意味（2）

An action of stopping; interruption of travel.

That stop was not planned.

意味（3）

That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.

A fatal stop trauerst their headlong course

意味（4）

(engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.

意味（5）

(architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.

意味（6）

(linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.

意味（7）

A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.

意味（8）

(music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.

The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.

意味（9）

(music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.

意味（10）

(tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.

意味（11）

(soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal

The Foxes were indebted to two crucial saves from keeper Kasper Schmeichel, who turned former Leicester defender Ben Chilwell's header on to a post then produced an even better stop to turn Mason Mount's powerful shot wide.

意味（12）

(zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.

The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.

意味（13）

(photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.

意味（14）

(photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.

意味（15）

(photography) An f-stop.

意味（16）

The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.

意味（17）

(fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.