Noun

• S: (n) fillet, stopping (fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members)
• S: (n) stopping (the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch) "the violinist's stopping was excellent"

Verb

• S: (v) stop, halt (come to a halt, stop moving) "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
• S: (v) discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off (put an end to a state or an activity) "Quit teasing your little brother"
• S: (v) stop, halt, block, kibosh (stop from happening or developing) "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
• S: (v) stop, stop over (interrupt a trip) "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"
• S: (v) stop (cause to stop) "stop a car"; "stop the thief"
• S: (v) break, break off, discontinue, stop (prevent completion) "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"
• 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"
• S: (v) barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar (render unsuitable for passage) "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
• S: (v) hold on, stop (stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments) "Hold on a moment!"