Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Noun
S: (n) stop, halt (the event of something ending) "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
S: (n) stop, stoppage (the act of stopping something) "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
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: (n) Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops (a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card)
Verb
S: (v) stop, halt (come to a halt, stop moving) "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
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"