stop

Definitions

General English

  • noun the end of

    something

    ,

    especially

    of

    movement

  • noun a place where you break a

    journey

  • noun a place where a bus or train lets passengers

    get on

    or off
  • verb not to move any

    more

    , e.g. in order to let

    people

    get on

    or off

General Science

  • noun a

    component

    which

    limits

    the movement of a part

Agriculture

  • verb to remove the growing tip of a shoot, to encourage

    lateral

    growths

Aviation

  • noun a

    component

    which limits the

    distance

    that a moving part can move

Banking

  • noun a situation in which someone is not supplying or not paying something

Cars & Driving

  • noun a

    component

    which limits the motion, travel or stroke of a moving part

Commerce

  • noun the end of an action
  • verb to make something not move or

    happen

    any more

Construction

  • On doors, the

    molding

    on the inside of the doorjamb that causes the

    door

    to stop in its closed position, preventing it from swinging through. On windows, the molding that covers the inside face of the

    jamb

    .
  • A type of

    molding

    nailed to the face of a

    door frame

    to prevent the

    door

    from swinging through. A stop is also used to hold the bottom sash of a double-

    hung window

    in place.
  • A valve used to shut off water supply to a

    fixture

    .

Cricket

  • noun
    Same as long stop
    Citation ‘In laying out your field, you should be careful in selecting good men for your principal places, such as wicket-keeper, point, stop, short-slip’ (Clarke 1851 in HM)
  • verb to field as long stop
    Citation ‘No

    substitute

    in the field shall be allowed to bowl, keep wicket, stand at the point or

    middle wicket

    , or stop behind to a fast

    bowler

    , unless by consent of the opposite party’     (Laws 1830)
  • verb to block the ball defensively
    Citation ‘I would strongly recommend the young batsman to turn his whole attention to stopping: for, by acting this part well, he becomes a serious antagonist to the bowler’ (Nyren 1833 in HM)

Media Studies

Military

  • verb to finish doing something
  • verb to stop moving and stand still
  • verb to

    prevent

    someone or something from moving
  • verb to

    prevent

    the

    enemy

    from advancing or successfully completing an attack

Publishing

  • noun the point where a line ends, or where it meets another line at right angles

Origin & History of “stop”

‘Close an opening, plug’ is the original meaning of stop. It comes via Old

English

*stoppian (recorded

only

in compounds)

from

a prehistoric Germanic *stoppōn ‘plug up’ (source

also

of English stuff). The sense ‘halt’ emerged in middle English from the notion of ‘preventing a flow by blocking a hole’.
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