Definition of stop

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Stop (n.) 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..

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Hoy :: Hoy (interj.) Ho! Halloe! Stop.
Stoping :: Stop-gap (n.) That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient..
Cystoplast :: Cystoplast (n.) A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth..
Tampoon :: Tampoon (n.) The stopper of a barrel; a bung.
Burette :: Burette (n.) An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid or for measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged. It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnished with a small aperture and stopcock..
Choke :: Choke (v. i.) To have the windpipe stopped; to have a spasm of the throat, caused by stoppage or irritation of the windpipe; to be strangled..
Hollo :: Hollo (interj. & n.) Ho there; stop; attend; hence, a loud cry or a call to attract attention; a halloo..
Principal :: Principal (n.) In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason..
Blastophore :: Blastophore (n.) That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them..
Stopper :: Stopped (a.) Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.)..
Strangulated :: Strangulated (a.) Having the circulation stopped by compression; attended with arrest or obstruction of circulation, caused by constriction or compression; as, a strangulated hernia..
Standing :: Standing (n.) The act of stopping, or coming to a stand; the state of being erect upon the feet; stand..
Flute :: Flute (n.) A stop in an organ, having a flutelike sound..
Gravel :: Gravel (v. t.) To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex.
Overslaugh :: Overslaugh (v. t.) To hinder or stop, as by an overslaugh or an impediment; as, to overslaugh a bill in a legislative body; to overslaugh a military officer, that is, to hinder his promotion or employment..
Still :: Still (a.) To stop, as noise; to silence..
Stent :: Stent (v. i.) To stint; to stop; to cease.
Stopless :: Stoping (n.) The act of excavating in the form of stopes.
Archaeostomatous :: Archaeostomatous (a.) Applied to a gastrula when the blastopore does not entirely close up.
Copula :: Copula (n.) The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; -- called also coupler..
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