1.the event of something ending;
it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill
2.the act of stopping something;
the third baseman made some remarkable stops
3.a brief stay in the course of a journey;
they made a stopover to visit their friends
4.the state of inactivity following an interruption;
the negotiations were in arrest
5.a spot where something halts or pauses;
his next stop is Atlanta
6.a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it;
his stop consonants are too aspirated
7.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
8.(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
9.a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens;
the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically
10. a restraint that checks the motion of something;
he used a book as a stop to hold the door open
11. an obstruction in a pipe or tube;
we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe
1.come to a halt, stop moving;
the car stopped
2.put an end to a state or an activity;
Quit teasing your little brother
3.stop from happening or developing;
Block his election
4.interrupt a trip;
we stopped at Aunt Mary's house
5.cause to stop;
stop a car
6.prevent completion;
stop the project
7.hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of;
Arrest the downward trend
8.seize on its way;
The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace
9.have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed
10. render unsuitable for passage;
block the way
11. stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;
Hold on a moment!
stop一詞的含義是指停止、停下來的意思。歌曲《STOP》由大陸歌手李宇春演唱,收錄在專輯《我的》里,2007年11月2日由太合麥田唱片發行。是一首國語流行歌曲,曾引起一時的轟動。