stop 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 Romance[The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, "stop".].
Verb
( stopp)
(label) To cease moving.
* , chapter=5
, title= 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.}}
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(label) To come to an end.
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(label) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
, page=13 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=( The Economist)
, title= Ideas coming down the track
, passage=A “moving platform” scheme
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(label) To cause (something) to come to an end.
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(label) To close or block an opening.
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To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
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(label) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
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* R. D. Blackmore
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* 1931 , , Mapp & Lucia , chapter 7
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(label) To tarry.
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(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
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(label) To make fast; to stopper.
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, terminate
Antonyms
* (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, move
Derived 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 here
Noun
( en noun)
A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
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An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
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* De Foe
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* Sir Isaac Newton
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* John Locke
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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.
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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.
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(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.
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(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.
Synonyms
* (place for vehicles to load and unload passengers) halt, station
* (consonant sound where air is blocked) plosive, occlusive
Derived terms
* bus stop
* truck stop
References
Adverb
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Prone to halting or hesitation.
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Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . See stoup.
Noun
( en noun)
A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
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walk English
(walk)
Verb
( en verb)
(lb) To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare .
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging.His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn. He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
*, chapter=15
, title= The Mirror and the Lamp
, passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty.
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Of an object, to be stolen.
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To walk off the field, as if given out, after the fielding side appeals and before the umpire has ruled; done as a matter of sportsmanship when the batsman believes he is out.
(lb) To travel (a distance) by walking.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked' home all the way, foaming and raging.His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn. He ' walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
(lb) To take for a walk or accompany on a walk.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I will rather trusta thief to walk my ambling gelding.
To allow a batter to reach base by pitching four balls.
(lb) To move something by shifting between two positions, as if it were walking.
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(lb) To full; to beat cloth to give it the consistency of felt.
(lb) To traverse by walking (or analogous gradual movement).
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To leave, resign.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:He will make their cows and garrans to walk .
(lb) To push (a vehicle) alongside oneself as one walks.
*1994 , John Forester, Bicycle Transportation: A Handbook for Cycling Transportation Engineers , MIT Press, p.245 :
*:The county had a successful defense only because the judge kept telling the jury at every chance that the cyclist should have walked his bicycle like a pedestrian.
To behave; to pursue a course of life; to conduct oneself.
*(Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
*:We walk' perversely with God, and he will ' walk crookedly toward us.
To be stirring; to be abroad; to go restlessly about; said of things or persons expected to remain quiet, such as a sleeping person, or the spirit of a dead person.
*(Hugh Latimer) (c.1485-1555)
*:I heard a pen walking in the chimney behind the cloth.
(lb) To be in motion; to act; to move.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Her tongue did walk in foul reproach.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:I have heard, but not believed, the spirits of the dead / May walk again.
*(Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
*:Do you think I'd walk in any plot?
Synonyms
* (move upon two feet) - See also
* be acquitted, get off, go free
* (be stolen) be/get stolen; (British) be/get nicked, be/get pinched
* (beat cloth) full, waulk (obsolete)
Derived terms
* walkathon
* walker
* Walker
* walkies
* walk away from
* walk away with
* walk in
* walk in circles
* walk into
* walk it
* walk it off
* walk like an Egyptian
* walk off
* walk off with
* walk on
* walk on the wild side
* walk out
* walk over
* walk through
* walkie-talkie
* walkman
* Walkman
* walkover
* walk tall
* walk the beat
* walk the walk
Noun
( en noun)
A trip made by walking.
- I take a walk every morning
A distance walked.
- It’s a long walk from my house to the library
(sports) An Olympic Games track event requiring that the heel of the leading foot touch the ground before the toe of the trailing foot leaves the ground.
A manner of walking; a person's style of walking.
- The Ministry of Silly Walks is underfunded this year
A path, sidewalk/pavement or other maintained place on which to walk. Compare trail .
(baseball) An award of first base to a batter following four balls being thrown by the pitcher; known in the rules as a "base on balls".
- The pitcher now has two walks in this inning alone
Synonyms
* (trip made by walking) stroll (slow walk), hike (long walk), trek (long walk)
* (distance walked) hike (if long), trek (if long)
* (manner of walking) gait
* (path) footpath, path, (British) pavement, (US) sidewalk
Derived terms
* cakewalk
* catwalk
* farmer's walk
* intentional walk
* perp walk
* race walk
* random walk
* sidewalk
* space walk / spacewalk
* sponsored walk
* walk in the park
* walk in the snow
* walk on the wild side
* walk policy
* whistle walk
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