S: (n) stop, stopover, layover (a brief stay in the course of a journey) "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
S: (n) arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage (the state of inactivity following an interruption) "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat"
S: (n) stop (a spot where something halts or pauses) "his next stop is Atlanta"
S: (n) period, point, full stop, stop, full point (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"
S: (n) stop ((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"
S: (n) diaphragm, stop (a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens) "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"
S: (n) catch, stop (a restraint that checks the motion of something) "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
S: (v) go off (stop running, functioning, or operating) "Our power went off during the hurricane"
S: (v) pull up short (stop abruptly) "The police car pulled up short and then turned around fast"
S: (v) check (stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution) "She checked for an instant and missed a step"
S: (v) check (stop in a chase especially when scent is lost) "The dog checked"
S: (v) check (abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey)
S: (v) rein, rein in (stop or slow up one's horse or oneself by or as if by pulling the reins) "They reined in in front of the post office"
S: (v) stall, conk (come to a stop) "The car stalled in the driveway"
S: (v) stall (experience a stall in flight, of airplanes)
S: (v) draw up, pull up, haul up (come to a halt after driving somewhere) "The Rolls pulled up on pour front lawn"; "The chauffeur hauled up in front of us"
S: (v) brake (stop travelling by applying a brake) "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road"
S: (v) check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back (hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of) "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
S: (v) intercept, stop (seize on its way) "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"
S: (v) end, stop, finish, terminate, cease (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical) "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"