(v. t.) To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
(v. t.) To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
(v. t.) To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.
(v. t.) To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.
(v. t.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.
(v. t.) To point, as a composition; to punctuate.
(v. t.) To make fast; to stopper.
(v. i.) To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.
(v. i.) To cease from any motion, or course of action.
(v. i.) To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
(n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.
(n.) That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.
(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.
(n.) The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.
(n.) In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.
(n.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.
(n.) A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.
(n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
(n.) The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.
(n.) Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed.
Example Sentences:
(1) Decreased MU stops additions of bone by modeling and increases removal of bone next to marrow by remodeling.
(2) The stopped-flow technique was used to measure the rate constants for the reactions between the oxidized forms of peroxidase with luminol and the following substrates: p-iodophenol, p-bromophenol, p-clorophenol, o-iodophenol, m-iodophenol, luciferin, and 2-iodo-6-hydroxybenzothiazole.
(3) The region containing the injection stop signal (iss) has been cloned and sequenced and found to contain numerous large repeats and inverted repeats which may be part of the iss.
(4) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
(5) … or a theatre and concert hall There are a total of 16 ghost stations on the Paris metro; stops that were closed or never opened.
(6) All of this in the same tones of weary nonchalance you might use to stop the dog nosing around in the bin.
(7) There are no oceans wide enough to stop us from dreaming.
(8) At the ceremony, the Taliban welcomed dialogue with Washington but said their fighters would not stop fighting.
(9) In a separate exclusive interview , Alexis Tsipras, the increasingly powerful 37-year-old Greek politician now regarded by many as holding the future of the euro in his hands, told the Guardian that he was determined "to stop the experiment" with austerity policies imposed by Germany.
(10) She stopped working only when the pain made it hard for her to get to work.
(11) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
(12) Crown prince Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz said yesterday that the state had "spared no effort" to avoid such disasters but added that "it cannot stop what God has preordained.
(13) Control measures were introduced rapidly, effectively stopping the epidemic.
(14) Both strong-stop DNAs are made early during in vitro reactions and decline in concentration later, consistent with postulated roles as initiators of long minus- and plus-strand DNA.
(15) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
(16) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(17) Bacteria can stop or lessen antibodies synthesis process.
(18) Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life’s hard classes.
(19) The scatter measurement was made using a standard imaging geometry with both beam stops and an additional x-ray detector placed behind the standard imaging detector.
(20) Thirteen of the dogs treated with various drug regimens lived for 90 days, after which time treatment was stopped; 10 of the dogs eventually rejected the grafts, but three had continued graft function for 6 months or longer and may be permanently tolerant.
Stow
Definition:
(v. t.) To place or arrange in a compact mass; to put in its proper place, or in a suitable place; to pack; as, to stowbags, bales, or casks in a ship's hold; to stow hay in a mow; to stow sheaves.
(v. t.) To put away in some place; to hide; to lodge.
(v. t.) To arrange anything compactly in; to fill, by packing closely; as, to stow a box, car, or the hold of a ship.
Example Sentences:
(1) Emily Stow London • Until I retired a year ago I was a consultant anaesthetist with a special interest in obstetric anaesthesia and analgesia.
(2) "Stowe was one of the most important political gardens of the 18th century, open to the public then, and still open today," she says.
(3) And on a sudden impulse, I stowed this little stolen memento of the time I saw the hawks in my inside jacket pocket and went home.
(4) His successor must also respond to a world in which more and more screens are stowed in the pocket and viewed on the move.
(5) The CO2 electrode concept had occurred to Gesell in 1925, but for measurement of gas only, and to Gertz and Loeschcke, who were unaware of the Stow-Severinghaus electrode, in 1958.
(6) With the normal seats stowed away, the Jocks – as the men are known – arranged themselves on the floors of the helicopters, legs tucked around the man in front of them and the bulky rifles, rocket launchers, radios and other kit.
(7) They believed they wanted to take control and believed Britain would be better off … These kind of awful things are done by a minority who come from the sewers who want to exploit division and have their own racist agenda.” Map Halfon, who backed remain, added: “All of us need to stand up for tolerance and kindness and against any kind of division.” Police in Harlow have been given the power to order anyone involved in crime or harassment to leave The Stow.
(8) He decided he would start stowing away rare indigenous grape varieties with the goal of preserving as much diversity as he could.
(9) The classrooms have hooks on the back wall to stow jackets and bags, to stop them getting in the way.
(10) Southwark Cathedral, once the parish church of St Mary Overie, doesn’t seem particularly far away, it has to be said but this could, nonetheless, be what Stow was talking about.
(11) It's manual labor, basically doing inventory counts or stowing inventory," he explains.
(12) Trump’s plane does without the emergency medical facilities secreted on Air Force One, which has an operating table discreetly stowed in a wall like a fold-up bed.
(13) A Metropolitan police spokesman said today that he was arrested for stowing away in an aircraft contrary to the Air Navigation Order 2009.
(14) Didn’t they have anything other than Sambo-blaaaak babies?” The word “sambo”, and the caricature attached to it, has a multinational history – from its use in Latin American Spanish to refer to a person of Native American and African heritage, to the overseer in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, to the children’s book The Story of Little Black Sambo in which a South Indian boy tricks a gang of hungry tigers.
(15) According to the Civil Aviation Authority, 2.4m tonnes of air cargo has been carried in and out of the UK in the year to date, two-thirds of it stowed in the holds of passenger planes.
(16) The man who crashed to earth in a south-west London suburb on Sunday made his doomed attempt to stow away to Heathrow on a British Airways plane flying from Luanda, the Angolan capital, flight data records and a handful of money suggest.
(17) New reports documenting the dangers of the camp are published every week; on Monday Unicef research suggested that the Calais refugee children were risking their lives 2,000 times a week to reach Britain, trying to stow away in lorries or jump on trains.
(18) Speaking just days after it emerged British police stepped in to rescue a seven-year-old Afghan boy who had stowed in a lorry from the French port, after he sent a text he was suffocating, Alf Dubs has called on the prime minister to take urgent action to provide a safe passage for child refugees.
(19) One Sudanese man said: “I would never try in Belgium because there the port is international, you wouldn’t know where you’re going if you stowed away.” Several were afraid of going to the Netherlands for fear that, if they were caught by police, they would be forced to declare asylum on the spot.
(20) Lord Cobham built the New Inn in 1717 to feed and water visitors to the extraordinary front garden at his palatial home at Stowe: 250 acres studded with temples, columns, arches, obelisks, cascades, grottoes, and lakes.