Stop vs Open - What's the difference?
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(label) To cease moving.
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, title= (label) To come to an end.
(label) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
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, title= (label) To cause (something) to come to an end.
(label) To close or block an opening.
To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
(label) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
* R. D. Blackmore
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(label) To tarry.
(label) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
(label) To punctuate.
* Landor
(label) To make fast; to stopper.
A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
* De Foe
* Sir Isaac Newton
* John Locke
A device intended to block the path of a moving object; as, a door stop.
(label) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis; a plosive.
A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
* Daniel
* Rogers
A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
(label) A button that activates the stop function.
(label) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
(label) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
(label) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
(label) An f-stop.
(label) 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.
(label) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
Prone to halting or hesitation.
(not comparable) Which is not closed; accessible; unimpeded; as, an open gate.
* 1908, (Kenneth Grahame), (The Wind in the Willows) , Chapter 2
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, title= Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded.
* Dryden
(not comparable) Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business.
(comparable) Receptive.
* Bible, Acts xix. 33
* Shakespeare
(not comparable) Public; as, an open letter, an open declaration.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(not comparable) Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character.
* Alexander Pope
* Shakespeare
* Addison
(mathematics, logic, of a formula) Having a free variable.
(mathematics, topology, of a set) Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of , that defines a topological space on .
In current use; mapped to part of memory.
(business) Not fulfilled.
Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration.
(music, stringed instruments) Without any fingers pressing the string against the fingerboard.
Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate.
(phonetics) Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels.
(phonetics) Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure.
To make something accessible or remove an obstacle to its being accessible.
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, chapter=20 To bring up (a topic).
To make accessible to customers or clients.
To start (a campaign).
To become .
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, title= To begin conducting business.
To enter upon; to begin.
(cricket) To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen.
(poker) To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker.
(transitive, intransitive, poker) To reveal one's hand.
To load into memory for viewing or editing.
To spread; to expand into an open or loose position.
(obsolete) To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
* Francis Bacon
* Bible, Jer. xx. 12
A sports event in which anybody can compete; as, the Australian Open.
(electronics) a wire that is broken midway.
(with the ) Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location.
(with the ) Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view.
As nouns the difference between stop and open
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at stuff, stump. Alternate etymology derives Proto-Germanic *stupp?n? from an assumed . This derivation, however, is doubtful, as the earliest instances of the Germanic verb do not carry the meaning of "stuff, stop with tow". Rather, these senses developed later in response to influence from similar sounding words in Latin and RomanceThe Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, "stop"..Verb
(stopp)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}
Ideas coming down the track, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
Mapp & Lucia, chapter 7
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing)'' or the ''to infinitive. See for more information.Synonyms
* (to cease moving) brake, desist, halt * (to come to an end) blin, cease, desist, discontinue, halt, terminate * (to cause to cease moving) cancel, cease, discontinue, halt, terminate * (to cause to come to an end) blin, cancel, cease, discontinue, halt, terminateAntonyms
* (to cease moving) continue, go, move, proceed * (to come to an end) continue, proceed * (to cause to cease moving) continue, move * (to cause to come to an end) continue, moveDerived terms
* stop-and-search / stop-and-frisk * stop by * stopcock * stop down * stop in * stop off * stop out * stop over * stop up * stopwatch * the buck stops hereNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (place for vehicles to load and unload passengers) halt, station * (consonant sound where air is blocked) plosive, occlusiveDerived terms
* bus stop * truck stopReferences
Adverb
(-)Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . See stoup.Statistics
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* * * * * 100 English basic words English ergative verbs English phrasebook 1000 English basic words ----open
English
(wikipedia open)Adjective
(en adjective)- The open road, the dusty highway
The attack of the MOOCs, passage=Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
- an open''' hand; an '''open''' flower; an '''open prospect
- Each, with open arms, embraced her chosen knight.
- If Demetrius have a matter against any man, the law is open and there are deputies.
- The service that I truly did his life, / Hath left me open to all injuries.
- His thefts are too open .
- That I may find him, and with secret gaze / Or open admiration him behold.
- with aspect open , shall erect his head
- The Moor is of a free and open nature.
- The French are always open , familiar, and talkative.
- an open question
- to keep an offer or opportunity open
- an open winter
- (Francis Bacon)
Synonyms
* (not closed) accessible, unimpededAntonyms
* (accessible) closed, shutDerived terms
(Terms derived from the adjective "open") * break open * clopen * drop open * half-open * keep a weather eye open * keep an eye open * lay open * open-air * open-and-shut * open-armed * open-arse * open bar * open book * open cluster * open-collar * open compound * open content * open design * open-ended * open-eyed * open-face * open-faced * open fireplace * open goal * open-handed/openhanded * open heart surgery * open-hearted * open-hearth * open house * open interest * open letter * open listing * open loop * open marriage * open matte * open mic * open mind * open-mouthed * open outcry * open outsourcing * open-plan * open problem * open proxy * open sandwich * open sea * open season * open secret * open sight * open source * open system * open water * open-work * openable * openside * Open University * wide open * with open armsVerb
(en verb)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in brimstone was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}}
citation, passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
- to open''' a discussion; to '''open''' fire upon an enemy; to '''open''' trade, or correspondence; to '''open a case in court, or a meeting
- to open a closed fist
- to open matted cotton by separating the fibres
- The king opened himself to some of his council, that he was sorry for the earl's death.
- Unto thee have I opened my cause.
Antonyms
* (to make accessible) close, shutDerived terms
* open a can of whoop ass * open fire * open one's big mouth * open sesame * open shop * open the attack * open the face * open up * reopen *Noun
(en noun)- The electrician found the open in the circuit after a few minutes of testing.
- I can't believe you left the lawnmower out in the open when you knew it was going to rain this afternoon!
- Wary of hunters, the fleeing deer kept well out of the open , dodging instead from thicket to thicket.
- We have got to bring this company's corrupt business practices into the open .