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General dictionaries General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. stop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. stop: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
  3. stop: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. STOP, Stop, stop: Wordnik [home, info]
  5. stop: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  6. Stop: Wiktionary [home, info]
  7. stop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  8. stop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  9. stop: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  10. STOP: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  11. stop (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  12. stop: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. stop: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  14. stop: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  15. STOP, Stop(song), Stop (Eurovision song), Stop (Pink Floyd song), Stop (Spice Girls' song), Stop (Spice Girls song), Stop (album), Stop (phonetics), Stop (pipe organ), Stop (song), Stop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  16. stop: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  17. Stop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  18. stop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  19. stop: Rhymezone [home, info]
  20. stop, stop (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  21. stop: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  22. stop: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  23. stop: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  24. stop: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  25. stop: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  26. Stop: The Word Detective [home, info]
  27. stop: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  28. stop: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stop: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary [home, info]
  2. stop: Linguistic Glossary [home, info]
  3. Stop: Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. stop: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
  2. Stop: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
  3. Stop: Comprehensive Financial [home, info]
  4. stop: Legal dictionary [home, info]
  5. Stop: Financial dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stop: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stop: Orthodontic Terms [home, info]
  2. stop: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  3. stop: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. stop: Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols [home, info]
  2. STOP: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  3. STOP: AbbreviationZ [home, info]
  4. stop: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stop: How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stop: The Folk File [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stop: Cat Terms [home, info]
  2. stop: Hickok Sports Glossaries [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Stop: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
  2. Stop: Efficient Windows [home, info]
  3. Stop: PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography [home, info]
  4. stop: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
  5. Stop: Sweetwater Music [home, info]
  6. STOP: Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms [home, info]

Quick definitions (stop)

noun:  a brief stay in the course of a journey ("They made a stopover to visit their friends")
noun:  the act of stopping something ("The third baseman made some remarkable stops")
noun:  (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes ("The organist pulled out all the stops")
noun:  the event of something ending ("It came to a stop at the bottom of the hill")
noun:  a spot where something halts or pauses ("His next stop is Atlanta")
noun:  a restraint that checks the motion of something ("He used a book as a stop to hold the door open")
noun:  a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
noun:  a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it ("His stop consonants are too aspirated")
noun:  a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations ("In England they call a period a stop")
noun:  an obstruction in a pipe or tube
noun:  the state of inactivity following an interruption ("He spent the entire stop in his seat")
verb:  stop from happening or developing
verb:  cause to stop ("Stop a car")
verb:  come to a halt, stop moving ("The car stopped")
verb:  interrupt a trip ("We stopped at Aunt Mary's house")
verb:  have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical ("Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other")
verb:  put an end to a state or an activity
verb:  stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
verb:  seize on its way
verb:  prevent completion ("Stop the project")
verb:  hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
verb:  render unsuitable for passage ("Stop the busy road")

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