stops

Definitions of stops in various dictionaries:

noun - 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)

noun - the event of something ending

noun - the act of stopping something

noun - a brief stay in the course of a journey

noun - the state of inactivity following an interruption

noun - a spot where something halts or pauses

noun - a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

noun - a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations

noun - (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes

noun - a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens

noun - a restraint that checks the motion of something

noun - an obstruction in a pipe or tube

verb - come to a halt, stop moving

verb - put an end to a state or an activity

verb - stop from happening or developing

verb - interrupt a trip

verb - cause to stop

verb - prevent completion

verb - hold back, as of a danger or an enemy

verb - seize on its way

verb - have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense

verb - render unsuitable for passage

verb - stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments

verb - to discontinue the progress or motion of