Stop
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( v. t.) To make fast; to stopper.
(2): ( v. i.) To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
(3): ( n.) The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.
(4): ( v. t.) To point, as a composition; to punctuate.
(5): ( 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.
(6): ( 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.
(7): ( 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.
(8): ( 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.
(9): ( v. t.) To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
(10): ( v. t.) To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
(11): ( 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.
(12): ( 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.
(13): ( 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.
(14): ( 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.
(15): ( v. i.) To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.
(16): ( v. i.) To cease from any motion, or course of action.
(17): ( n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
(18): ( 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.
(19): ( n.) That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.
(20): ( 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.
King James Dictionary [2]
Stop, G to stop, to check, to pose, to fill, to cram, to stuff, to quilt, to darn, to mend. See Stifle. L., tow to stuff, to crowd to be stupefied, whence stupid, stupor, that is, to stop, or a stop. The primary sense is either to cease to move, or to stuff, to press, to thrust in, to cram probably the latter.
1. To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing as, to stop a vent to stop the ears to stop wells of water. 2 Kings 3 . 2. To obstruct to render impassable as, to stop a way, road or passage. 3. To hinder to impede to arrest progress as, to stop a passenger in the road to stop the course of a stream. 4. To restrain to hinder to suspend as to stop the execution of a decree. 5. To repress to suppress to restrain as, to stop the progress of vice. 6. To hinder to check as, to stop the approaches of old age or infirmity. 7. To hinder from action or practice.
Whose disposition, all the world well knows, will not be rubbd nor stoppd.
8. To put an end to any motion or action to intercept as, to stop the breath to stop proceedings. 9. To regulate the sounds of musical strings as, to stop a string. 10. In seamanship, to make fast. 11. To point as a written composition. Not in use.
STOP,
1. To cease to go forward.
Some strange commotion is in his brain he bites his lip, and starts stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground---
2. To cease from any motion or course of action. When you are accustomed to a course of vice, it is very difficult to stop.
The best time to stop is at the beginning.
STOP, n.
1. Cessation of progressive motion as, to make a stop. 2. Hindrance of progress obstruction act of stopping.
Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy--
3. Repression hindrance of operation or action.
It is a great step towards the mastery of our desires, to give this stop to them.
4. Interruption.
These stops of thine fright me the more.
5. Prohibition of sale as the stop of wine and salt. 6. That which obstructs obstacle impediment.
A fatal stop travesd their headlong course.
So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.
7. The instrument by which the sounds of wind music are regulated as the stops of a flute or an organ. 8. Regulation of musical chords by the fingers.
In the stops of lutes, the higher they go, the less distance is between the frets.
9. The act of applying the stops in music.
Th organ-sound a time survives the stop.
10. A point or mark in writing, intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence or clauses, and to show the proper pauses in reading. The stops generally used, are the comma, semi-colon, colon and period. To these may be added the marks of interrogation and exclamation.
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [3]
"to fence in" (akin to phragmos, "a fence"), "close, stop," is used (a) metaphorically, in Romans 3:19 , of "preventing" all excuse from Jew and Gentile, as sinners; in 2—Corinthians 11:10 , lit., "this boasting shall not be stopped to me;" Passive Voice in both; (b) physically, of the mouths of lions, Hebrews 11:33 (Active Voice).
"to hold together," is rendered "stopped (their ears)" in Acts 7:57 . See Hold.
"to stop the mouth," Titus 1:11 : see Mouth , B.
