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Definition: Stop |
StopNoun1. 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"; "stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood". 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"; "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". 5. A spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta". 6. A consonant produced by stopping 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". Verb1. Come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window". 2. Put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother". 3. Stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process". 4. Interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence". 5. Cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief". 6. Prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break the silence". 7. 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 SE Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back athe tide of communism". 8. Seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace". 9. Have end in a certain location; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other". 10. : stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"; "We broke at noon". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "stop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A designated point at which a public transport vehicle will stop for passenger boarding and alighting. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | Knob, which controls a slider affecting a rank or set of organ pipes. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A rank or set of pipes affected by a knob which controls a slider in organs(O. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Food & Agriculture | Any point on a stem where a material change of diameter or direction occurs. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Mechanical limiter to permissible travel of flying control or other mechanism. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Any projecting piece designed to strike against some other piece having motion relative to the first piece. The stop may either arrest the movement directly, or else actuate a switch or an auxiliary mechanism. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Piece used to secure or hold firmly and quickly another device. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. Any cleat or beam to check the descent of a cage, car, pump, pump rods, etc.b. In mining, a variation of stope. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Stop, Stay. To stop is to cease moving. "At what hotel do you stop" should be "At what hotel do you stay." "When you come to the city stay with me," not stop with me. Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Detail of a camera showing f stop scale.In photography the f-number expresses the diameter of the diaphragm aperture in terms of the effective focal length of the lens. For example, f/16 represents a diaphragm aperture diameter that is one-sixteenth of the focal length.
The higher the f-number, the less light is admitted through the lens.
f stops are a way of representing a convenient sequence of f-numbers in a geometric progression. Each 'stop' is marked with its corresponding f-number, and represents a halving of the light intensity from the one before, corresponding to a decrease of the diaphragm aperture diameter by a factor of √2, and hence an halving of the area of the aperture.
Modern lenses use a standard f stops scale that corresponds to the sequence of the powers of √2 : f/1, f/1.4, f/2, f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, f/8, f/11, f/16, f/22, f/32, f/45 and f/64. (Note that the values of the ratios are rounded off, to make them easy to write down).
Shutter speeds are arranged in a similar scale, so that one step in the shutter speed scale corresponds to one step in the f stop scale.
Photographers sometimes express exposure ratios in terms of 'stops'. If we ignore the f-number markings, the f-stops make a logarithmic scale of exposure intensity. Given this interpretation, you can then think of taking a half-step along this scale, to make an exposure difference of "half a stop".
Since all lenses absorb some portion of the light passing through them (particularly zoom lenses containing many elements), for exposure purposes a T-stop is sometimes used instead of f-stop. The T-numbers are adjusted so that the amount of light transmitted through the lens at a given T-stop is equal to that going through an ideal non-absorbing lens set at that f-stop.
In practice the maximal aperture of a lens often differs from a power of √2, and is not one of the standard f-stops. For example, the sequence of F-stops on the lens depicted in the picture above has f-numbers of f/3.5, f/5.6, f/8, f/11, f/16 and f/22.
Depth of field increases with f-stop; for an example of this relationship, visit the depth of field article.
Picture sharpness also varies with f-stop. The optimal f-stop vary with the lens characteristics. For example, on modern standard lenses having 6 or 7 elements the sharpest image is obtained around f/5.6-f/8, while for older standard lenses having only 4 elements (Tessar formula) stopping to f/11 will give the sharpest image. The reason the sharpness is best at medium f-numbers is that the sharpness at high f-number is constrained by diffraction, whereas at low f-numbers lens faults known as aberrationss will dominate.
As an example of the use of f-numbers, an approximately correct exposure will be obtained on a sunny day using ISO 125 film, an aperture of f/16 and a shutter speed of 1/125th of a second. This is called the "sunny f/16 rule".
See also:
- circle of confusion
- printer points
- film speed
- shutter speed
- exposure value
External links
- http://members.tripod.com/~Prophotoman/fstop.html
- http://tangentsoft.net/fcalc/help/FNumber.htm
- http://www.minoxlab.com/Don_Krehbiel/mpl/dkasa.htm
- http://www.largeformatphotography.info/fstop.html
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "F-number."
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The word stop, when used alone, has several possible meanings in the English language.The term "stop", when used by itself, can refer to:
"Stop" is also a part of the name of:
- A stop is an incorrect name for the punctuation mark correctly known as a full stop or a period: "."
- A stop consonant in phonology or linguistics
- door stop: a wedge to stop a door from closing when you want it open
- bus stop: a place where the bus stops for people to get on and off
- truck stop: an eating establishment on a major trucking route with a large carpark for truck drivers to stop and refresh themselves, and often with other amenities available.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stop."
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A stop is a consonant sound produced by obstructing airflow in the vocal tract by the lips or tongue.In the case of oral stops, the airflow is blocked completely, causing pressure to build up. The obstruction in the mouth is then suddenly opened; the released airflow produces a sudden impulse in pressure causing an audible sound.
The oral cavity can also be completely obstructed while allowing air to escape through the nose; this may be called a nasal stop. Usually the term "stop" is used to refer to oral stops only, with nasal stops called simply nasalss. Since nasals are always continuous, not abrupt, it seems strange to call them stops, though strictly the definition of stops given above allows it.
Here are some of the oral stops. (The figures in square brackets are from the IPA.)
English has the following stops:
- [p] voiceless bilabial stop
- [b] voiced
- [t] voiceless alveolar stop
- [d] voiced
- [ʈ] voiceless retroflex stop
- [ɖ] voiced
- [c] voiceless palatal stop
- [ɟ] voiced
- [k] voiceless velar stop
- [g] voiced
- [q] voiceless uvular stop
- [ɢ] voiced
- [ʔ] glottal stop
[p], [t], [k] (voiceless)
[b], [d], [g] (voiced)
[m], [n], [ŋ] (nasal)
[ʔ] (glottal stop, though not as a phoneme in most dialects)
All languages in the world have stops. Some Polynesian languages have only three. Most languages have at least [p], [t], and [k], and usually more.
Stops may be made with more than one airstream mechanism. The normal mechanism is pulmonic, that is with air flowing outward from the lungs. A pulmonic stop is called a plosive. All languages have plosives. Some languages have stops made with other mechanisms too: these are called ejective, implosive, or click dependent on the mechanism.
See phonetics, fricative, affricate, nasal consonant, approximant, click, phonation, airstream mechanism
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Stop consonant."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
STOP | English | Stop Trafficking of Persons | Social Sciences |
| STP | English | Stop Character | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: StopSynonyms: block (n), blockage (n), catch (n), check (n), closure (n), diaphragm (n), full point (n), full stop (n), halt (n), hitch (n), layover (n), occlusion (n), occlusive (n), period (n), plosive (n), plosive consonant (n), plosive speech sound (n), point (n), stay (n), stop consonant (n), stopover (n), stoppage (n), arrest (v), break (v), break off (v), cease (v), contain (v), discontinue (v), give up (v), hold back (v), hold on (v), intercept (v), kibosh (v), lay off (v), quit (v), stop over (v), terminate (v), turn back (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: off-and-on (mechanical engineering, engineering & technology), put-off (mechanical engineering, engineering & technology), taking-off (mechanical engineering, engineering & technology). |
| Antonyms: continuant consonant (n), continue (v), start (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cessation | Verb: cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down. |
Intromit, interrupt, suspend, interpel; intermit, remit; put an end to, put a stop to, put a period to; derail; turn off, switch off, power down, deactivate, disconnect; bring to a stand, bring to a standstill; stop, cut short, arrest, stem the tide, stem the torrent; pull the check-string, pull the plug on. | |
Intermission, remission; suspense, suspension; interruption; stop; stopping; Verb: closure, stoppage, halt; arrival. pause, rest, lull, respite, truce, drop; interregnum, abeyance; cloture. | |
Closure | (hinder); bar, bolt, stop, seal, plumb; choke, throttle; ram down, dam, cram; trap, clinch; put to the door, shut the door. |
End | Verb: end, close, finish, terminate, conclude, be all over; expire; die; come-, draw- to a -close; Noun: have run its course; run out, pass away. bring to an -end; Noun: put an end to, make an end of; determine; get through; achieve; (complete); stop; (make to cease); shut up shop; hang up one's fiddle. |
Hindrance | Obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay; dam up; (close); put on the brake; Noun: scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude. |
Encumbrance, incumbrance; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain, drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, prophylactic; load, burden, fardel, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack; nightmare, Ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea; remora. | |
Inaction | Verb: not do, not act, not attempt; be inactive; abstain from doing, do nothing, hold, spare; not stir, not move, not lift a finger, not lift a foot, not lift a peg; fold one's arms, fold one's hands; leave alone, let alone; let be, let pass, let things take their course, let it have its way, let well alone, let well enough alone; quieta non movere; stare super antiquas vias; rest and be thankful, live and let live; lie rest upon one's oars; laisser aller, faire; stand aloof; refrain; (avoid) keep oneself from doing; remit one's efforts, relax one's efforts; desist; (relinquish); stop; (cease); pause; (be quiet). |
Quiescence | Remain, stay; stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry, mark time; bring to, heave to, lay to; pull up, draw up; hold, halt; stop, stop short; rest, pause, anchor; cast to an anchor, come to an anchor; rest on one's oars; repose on one's laurels, take breath; stop; (discontinue). |
Relinquishment | Break off, leave off; desist; stop; (cease); hold one's hand, stay one's hand; quit one's hold; give over, shut up shop. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Stop |
| English words defined with "stop": bus stop ♦ Echo stop ♦ flue stop, full stop ♦ glottal stop ♦ labial stop ♦ pit stop ♦ reed stop, rest stop ♦ stop bath, stop consonant, stop dead, suction stop ♦ To stop over ♦ Voice stop. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "stop": compulsory stop, corporation stop ♦ dead stop, definite stop ♦ length stop, longitudinal stop ♦ positive stop, programmed stop ♦ safety stop, scheduled stop, sheltered stop, stationary stop, stop bit, STOP HOLE ABBEY, stop loss order ♦ trip-over stop. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "stop": Sub-bass. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Stop" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (halt, stop), Albanian (stop), Czech (hitch, stop), Dutch (electric plug, patch, plug, stop, stopper), Esperanto (stop), French (foothold, halt, stop, stop sign), German (halt, stop), Irish (stop), Italian (stop), Romanian (light, stop), Scottish (stop), Swedish (box, container, jug, pitcher, quart, vessel). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Stop trying to hit me and hit me (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.) Stop her, Louis (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Once you remove Mr. Bonds heart, there should just be enough time for him to watch it stop beating (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) Stop looking at me like that (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) That would have worked if you didn't stop me. (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.) | |
Lyrics | Might even stop the drivin' rain (Can't Stop This Thing We Started; performing artist: Bryan Adams) I just gotta stop (I JUST WANNA STOP; performing artist: Gino Vannelli) Then time would stop (Clockwork Creep; performing artist: 10CC) That's cool, don't stop (I Do (Wanna Get Close To You); performing artist: 3LW) Cuz no one here can ever stop us (Fly Away From Here; performing artist: Aerosmith) | |
Clever | If the people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em. (references; author: Yogi Berra) To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times. (references; author: Mark Twain) Ever stop to think and forget to start again? (references; author: unknown) Herblock's Law: If it is good, they will stop making it. (references; author: unknown) Why is it that to stop Windows 95, you have to click on "Start"? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | UFO ...annientare S.H.A.D.O. stop. Uccidete Straker... (1974) Truck Stop Women (1974) The Man Who Can't Stop (1973) Marihouana stop! (1971) | |
Song Titles | I Just Wanna Stop (performing artist: Gino Vannelli) Bus Stop (performing artist: The Hollies) One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (performing artist: Honey Cone) Stop (performing artist: Jon Secada) Don't Stop Believing (performing artist: Journey) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Rest stop while climbing to station at Ragged Point. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Wiredrag - N. H. Heck watching the brake to stop reel Reel stopped to attach floats and buoys to mark wire location Deck of contract sloop NENA A. ROWLAND Wiredrag party of N. H. Heck Only known photograph of Nicholas Heck in the field. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A breakwater constructed to stop erosion. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | On the way back home - a short stop in the Yakutat area. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Bow shot of National Science Foundation, Research Ice Breaker NATHANIEL B. PALMER during a stop in the sea ice for sea ice sampling. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Power block operator monitors the net as it comes aboard. If need be, he will stop the net in case of a problem. Credit: Fisheries. |
 | Underway on a headboat - poles lined up and ready for the next fishing stop. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Eastern milksnake - Lampropeltis triangulum triangulum. This snake is a constrictor and kills its prey by exerting sufficient pressure to stop its breathing. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Police massed to stop potential demonstrations near the Presidential Palace in downtown Lima, Peru. Credit: Small World. |  | Secretary of Defense William Cohen accompanied by his wife, Janet Langart Cohen, is greeted by the U.S. Air Forces in Europe Elite Guard during their arrival to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Dec. 17. Cohen's Holiday Tour 2000 stop at Ramstein included perfo. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Atlas Please Stop the Rain" by Lewis Long Commentary: "Shot of the Atlas Statue in Manhattan on a rainy Novermber day." | "NYC Bus Stop" by J. Rodriguez Commentary: "This is a New York City bus Stop shot I took before I went to my vacation." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing. |
Chuang Tzu | Banish wisdom, discard knowledge, and gangsters will stop! |
Elbert Hubbard | To stop sinning suddenly. |
Ernest Renan | Our opinions become fixed at the point where we stop thinking. |
John F. Kerry | The war the soldiers tried to stop. |
Martial | Stop abusing my verses, or publish some of your own. |
Napoleon Bonaparte | We may stop ourselves when going up, never when going down. |
Publilius Syrus | While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. |
Tryon Edwards | Have something to say; say it, and stop when you're done. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | That as much as may be, all the members of the society are to be preserved: for since many accidents may happen, wherein a strict and rigid observation of the laws may do harm; (as not to pull down an innocent man's house to stop the fire, when the next to it is burning) and a man may come sometimes within the reach of the law, which makes no distinction of persons, by an action that may deserve reward and pardon; 'tis fit the ruler should have a power, in many cases, to mitigate the severity of the law, and pardon some offenders: for the end of government being the preservation of all, as much as may be, even the guilty are to be spared, where it can prove no prejudice to the innocent. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | It may either stop here, or establish certain limits not to be transcended by those departments. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She was obliged to stop and think |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | I caught at his arm, but too late to stop him. |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Stop till I shut the door of the shop |
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | Stop it." |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Certainly I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It was nice to hear it roar and stop and then roar out of the tunnel again and then stop |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win. |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | What black magician conjures up this fiend To stop devoted charitable deeds |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Joad looked up and did not stop gnawing the meat |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | We cannot touch a string or move a stop but the charming moral transfixes us. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Women may stop having menstrual periods. (references) | |
This also helps stop shortness of breath. (references) | ||
No one knows why the nerve cells stop growing. (references) | ||
Business | Once satellite can be used effectively and inexpensively, the companies can stop putting wires on the ground. (references) | |
Growing numbers of East Germans emigrated to the F.R.G. via Hungary after the Hungarians decided not to use force to stop them. (references) | ||
User shall use its best efforts to stop any unauthorized copying or distribution immediately after such unauthorized use becomes known. (references) | ||
Children | Haiti | The Ministry of Social Affairs believes that it can do little to stop this practice, regarding it as economically motivated; the Ministry assigned five monitors to oversee the welfare of restavek children. (references) |
Hungary | Roma are far more likely than non-Roma to stop attending school before age 16. The percentage of the country's Roma graduating from high school in 1993 was 1.6 percent compared with 23.8 percent for non-Roma. (references) | |
Brazil | In January 2000, Justica Global and the Macros Passerini Defense Fund filed a complaint with the IACHR accusing the state government and the federal authorities of failing to investigate the crimes; in November the IACHR gave the Government 2 months to investigate and stop the killings. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Moldova | The separatist authorities often stop and search incoming and outgoing vehicles. (references) |
China | Two persons who tried to stop a demolition were arrested and sentenced to 2 years of reform-through-education. (references) | |
Algeria | They routinely stop vehicles to inspect identification papers and to search for evidence of terrorist activity. (references) | |
Economic History | Kazakhstan | The SFPA's mission is to expose and stop economic and financial crime. (references) |
Eritrea | The Business Licensing Office is designed to provide "one stop shopping" for investors. (references) | |
China | Recently the government has stepped up considerably its efforts to stop diminish this trade. (references) | |
Human Rights | Sri Lanka | Security forces have done little to stop this practice. (references) |
Tunisia | Police may stop anyone at anytime and ask for their identity card. (references) | |
Mexico | The three men allege that they signed confessions to stop the mistreatment. (references) | |
Minorities | Georgia | Father Mkashvilli warned them that they were building a Satanist house and that they better stop their work. (references) |
Tanzania | The farmers were attacked by Maasai herdsmen with clubs after the farmers attacked cattle to stop the animals from eating planted sorghum. (references) | |
Ethiopia | Church leaders asked that the construction stop, and when the Muslims refused, church leaders called upon neighborhood Christians to pray in front of the site. (references) | |
Political Economy | PAKISTAN | Resources to stop child labor remain insufficient, particularly in the provision of educational opportunities. (references) |
Ecuador | MPD leaders lead anti-government protests seeking to raise wages, guarantee employment, and stop needed reforms. (references) | |
CHINA | China has agreed to stop all export subsidies on agricultural and industrial goods as soon as it becomes a WTO member. (references) | |
Political Rights | Uganda | The Anglican Church directed its clergy to stop campaigning in churches and not to display candidates' posters. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | However, during the afternoon of October 23, 2000, soldiers and gendarmes entered the National Elections Commission (CNE) to stop the count. (references) | |
Trade | Kenya | Kenya Bureau of Standards has legal authority to stop sale of uncertified products, and to prosecute the offending parties. (references) |
Travel | Egypt | Buses take 3 1/2 hours, with a rest stop. (references) |
Maldives | Air taxis stop flying one hour before sunset. (references) | |
Russia | Traffic police sometimes stop motorists to levy cash "fines," and bandits occasionally prey on travelers, especially in isolated areas. (references) | |
Women | Kenya | Since 1994 FIDA has collaborated with the police to stop domestic violence. (references) |
Nigeria | On April 4, President Obasanjo initiated a national policy to stop all discrimination against women. (references) | |
Philippines | Hotel and travel industry leaders continued to refuse to honor their pledges to cooperate with a code endorsed by international tourism groups to stop sex tourism. (references) | |
Worker Rights | China | Thus far, actions to stop this lucrative business largely have been ineffective. (references) |
Sweden | Safety ombudsmen have the authority to stop unsafe activity immediately and to call in an inspector. (references) | |
Niger | In November 2000, the judge ordered the teachers to stop their "illegal and savage" strike and return to work. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Angela Ricci | I didn't really get the whole story. You know, I got just, you know, the main part. And it was that the cop said, stop or I'll shoot. The cop shot. |
Dennis Miller | Hey Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, stop talking peace but refusing to meet with the Israelis. |
Don Imus | I'm not going to reveal the questions now, stop badgering me. You are turning into Mike Wallace here. |
James Lipton | Not just project, but on stage, you have to begin at the beginning and end at the end, and you're out there, you can't stop for anything. In film, you stop constantly. |
Marla Hanson | Maybe I might have. You know, but then you have the guilt that you didn't stop them from hurting somebody else. So I don't know, I was proud of myself for doing that, and standing up for myself and going through that process, but it came at a big price. |
Michael J. Fox | Just get away from it and not look at it and not deal with it. That's when I realized it was something I wanted to stop doing. |
Richard Armey | Well, we do concede that, and that is why President Bush is saying we need to make border security a number-one priority. We can't afford to continue to have one senator, Senator Byrd, stop us from securing our borders. |
Robert Atkins | OK, then which I stop one of our first callers, you should really check your temperature to see if perhaps you don't have a sluggish thyroid because that may be the answer. |
Rush Limbaugh | We need to reward risk and stop punishing achievement. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | At the time of the bombing halt just a year ago, there was some confusion as to whether there was an understanding on the part of the enemy that if we stopped the bombing of North Vietnam they would stop the shelling of cities in South Vietnam. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | The Government must stop spending so much and stop borrowing so much of our money. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | We are hard at work with Great Britain and the Soviet Union on an agreement which will stop testing and will protect our national security and provide for adequate verification of compliance. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | So tonight, I ask you to just stop taking the lobbyists' perks. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Together with friends and allies from Europe to Asia, and Africa to Latin America, we will demonstrate that the forces of terror cannot stop the momentum of freedom. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Stop" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 68.95% of the time. "Stop" is used about 14,096 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 68.95% | 9,719 | 976 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 19.69% | 2,776 | 3,325 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.28% | 1,590 | 5,205 |
| Noun (common) | 0.04% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.02% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.02% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14,096 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "stop": air stop ♦ be at a stop ♦ be unable to stop oneself ♦ bring to a stop ♦ buffer stop ♦ bus stop ♦ coarse pitch stop ♦ coast to a stop ♦ come to a dead stop ♦ come to a full stop ♦ come to a stop ♦ compulsory stop ♦ corporation stop ♦ dead stop ♦ definite stop ♦ diapason stop ♦ droop stop ♦ Echo stop ♦ end stop ♦ fine pitch stop ♦ flag stop ♦ flue stop ♦ forked stop ♦ full stop ♦ furniture stop ♦ geneva stop ♦ glottal stop ♦ intermediate stop ♦ labial stop ♦ last stop ♦ length stop ♦ locating stop ♦ longitudinal stop ♦ make a stop ♦ make stop ♦ make stop over ♦ margin stop ♦ mutation stop ♦ night stop ♦ organ stop ♦ overnight stop ♦ pit stop ♦ please stop that noise! ♦ positive stop ♦ program stop ♦ programmed stop ♦ pull out all the pathetic stop ♦ put a stop ♦ put a stop to ♦ reed stop ♦ refuelling stop ♦ request stop ♦ rest stop ♦ revenue stop ♦ scheduled stop ♦ sheltered stop ♦ station stop time ♦ stationary stop ♦ stop a blow ♦ stop a bullet ♦ stop a cheque ♦ stop a gap ♦ stop a leak ♦ stop a minute ♦ stop a tooth ♦ stop altitude squawk ♦ stop an earth ♦ stop and go ♦ stop and start ♦ stop and take breath ♦ stop and think ♦ stop at ♦ stop at home ♦ stop at nothing ♦ stop at the surface of things ♦ stop away ♦ stop away from ♦ stop band ♦ stop bar ♦ stop bath ♦ stop bead ♦ stop behind ♦ stop bit ♦ stop boiling ♦ stop by ♦ stop caring for ♦ stop chatting ♦ stop codon ♦ stop coming ♦ stop consonant ♦ stop dead ♦ stop down ♦ stop drinking ♦ stop drinking wine ♦ stop driving ♦ stop element ♦ stop flowing ♦ stop for a while ♦ stop go ♦ stop gripping ♦ stop halfway. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "stop": stop-all-wars, stop-and-go, stop-and-search, stop-and-start, stop-at-home, stop-breaker, stop-cock, stop-cocks, stop-deleted, stop-ended, Stop-gap, stop-gaps, stop-go, stop-her, stop-lamp, stop-light, stop-lights, stop-list, stop-loss, stop-loss order, Stop-microsoft, stop-motion, stop-off, stop-offs, stop-order, stop-out, Stop-over, stop-overs, stop-press, stop-press news, stop-presses, stop-probably, stop-punch, stop-punched, stop-punching, stop-rate, stop-rot, stop-signal, stop-signs, stop-smoking, stop-spot, stop-start, stop-stop, stop-the, stop-the-war, stop-time, Stop-ux, stop-watch, stop-watches, stop-you. | |
Ending with "stop": bus-stop, full-stop, Hydro-stop, non-stop, no-stop, one-stop, pit-stop, start-stop, whistle-stop. | |
Containing "stop": one-stop-shop. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
stop pop ups | 1,904 | snore stop | 183 |
stop smoking | 1,558 | stop shop supermarket | 176 |
stop to shop | 1,219 | you cant stop me | 163 |
popup stop | 846 | messenger stop | 156 |
pop up stop | 652 | stop dog barking | 147 |
stop sign | 609 | one stop | 132 |
stop spam | 552 | stop n shop | 132 |
stop | 517 | stop smoking aids | 119 |
stop pop | 454 | stop popup free | 119 |
epil stop | 447 | stop wing | 117 |
free stop pop ups | 403 | stop premature ejaculation | 115 |
stop pop up ads | 381 | stop stop | 105 |
can t stop | 379 | stop a divorce | 103 |
bus stop | 356 | can chili hot lyrics pepper red stop t | 103 |
game stop | 335 | stop telemarketing | 102 |
stop foreclosure | 324 | one stop career center | 100 |
stop snoring | 323 | book stop | 100 |
stop watch | 271 | free stop pop up | 98 |
stop telemarketers | 241 | truck stop | 97 |
ring stop | 227 | stop junk mail | 92 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "stop"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | stop (halt), stilhou (cease, come to a halt, halt), ophou (cease, come to an end, end, end up, expire), keer (halt, occasion, time), gaan staan (cease, come to a halt, halt), afskakel (cut, cut a connection, shut, shut off, switch, switch off, turn off), afsit (amputate, depose, deposit, deprive, dismiss, halt, put off, shut, shut off, switch, switch off, take, take off, turn off). (various references) | |
Albanian | stop, stacion (stage, stand, station, works), shenjë pikësimi (pause, punctuation), pikë ndalimi, frenoj (apply the brakes, be an obstacle to, bit, brake, check, choke up, clog, contain, control, Cork, damp, delay, detain, deter, fetter, guard, hamper, hang up, hedge in, hold, hold back, hold in, inhibit, interrupt, keep in, put back, rein, retard, set back, stay put, stem), i jap fund (abate, break up, close, cut, discontinue, disestablish, dissolve, end, finish, kill, overthrow, quench), mbyll (bung, calk, caulk, close, close up, commit, confine, crib, dry up, encase, enclose, encompass, end, entomb, fasten, furl, glue up, hush up, impound, inclose, key, lap, obturate, occlude, pen, screw on, seal, shut, |
