Usually means: Cease movement or an activity.
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We found 55 dictionaries that define the word stop:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. stop: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. stop, stop: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stop: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. stop: Collins English Dictionary
  5. stop: Vocabulary.com
  6. Stop, stop: Wordnik
  7. stop: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. stop: Wiktionary
  9. stop: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. stop: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. stop: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. STOP: Dictionary.com
  13. stop (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. stop: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. STOP, Stop (Bang song), Stop (Erasure song), Stop (Eric Burdon Band album), Stop (Franco De Vita album), Stop (Pink Floyd song), Stop (Spice Girls song), Stop (Stockhausen), Stop (disambiguation), Stop (film), Stop (linguistics), Stop (song), Stop: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Stop: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. stop: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. stop: Rhymezone
  19. stop, stop (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. stop: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. stop: Free Dictionary
  22. stop: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Stop: The Word Detective
  24. stop: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. stop: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  4. stop: Legal dictionary
  5. Stop: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stop: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Orthodontic Terms (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. stop: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. STOP: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. stop: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. stop, stop, stop, stop: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. stop: The Folk File
  3. S.T.O.P, S.T.O.P, stop: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Efficient Windows (No longer online)
  3. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  6. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See stoping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To cease moving.
verb:  (intransitive) Not to continue.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
verb:  (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue (doing something, especially something wrong or undesirable, or something causing irritation or annoyance).
verb:  (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
verb:  (causative, transitive, chiefly UK) To end someone else's activity.
verb:  (transitive) To close or block an opening.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
verb:  (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
verb:  (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
verb:  (obsolete) To punctuate.
verb:  (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
verb:  (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
verb:  (finance, transitive) To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
noun:  A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
noun:  An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
noun:  That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
noun:  A device intended to block the path of a moving object
noun:  (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.
noun:  (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
noun:  (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
noun:  A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
noun:  (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
noun:  (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
noun:  (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
noun:  A marking on a rabbit's hind foot.
noun:  (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
noun:  (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
noun:  (photography) An f-stop.
noun:  The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
noun:  (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
noun:  (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
noun:  (physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
noun:  (UK, grammar, informal) Short for full stop. [(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The punctuation mark "." (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).]

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