STOP


Meaning of STOP in English

I. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a bus stop (= a place where a bus stops for passengers )

She got off at the next bus stop.

a clock stops (= stops working )

My clock had stopped at 6 am so the alarm didn’t work.

a sound stops

The sound stopped suddenly.

a watch stops

Her watch had stopped after getting wet in the sea.

bleeding...stopped

The bleeding had almost stopped .

bus stop

cancel/stop a cheque (= stop a cheque from being paid to someone )

Don't forget to phone the bank and cancel that cheque.

full stop

I don’t have a reason. I just don’t want to go, full stop.

full stop

Put a full stop at the end of the sentence.

glottal stop

it stops raining

Has it stopped raining?

pit stop

rest stop

stop a fight/break up a fight

The police were called in to break up a fight outside a nightclub.

stop a medication (= stop taking a medication )

I stopped the medication when I found out I was pregnant.

stop crying

Eventually, he stopped crying and told me what happened.

stop dead (in your tracks) (= suddenly stop moving completely )

She was so shocked that she stopped dead in her tracks.

Stop dithering

Stop dithering , girl, and get on with it!

stop press

stop the rot British English (= stop a bad situation getting worse )

The team has enough good players to stop the rot.

stop/halt a decline (= stop it from continuing )

These measures are intended to halt the decline in fish populations.

stopping distance

stopping train

stop/quit/give up smoking

I gave up smoking nearly ten years ago.

switch off/turn off/stop an engine

Maggie pulled over and switched off the engine.

the rain stops

They went into a cafe and waited for the rain to stop.

the stopping/braking distance (= how far you travel in a car after pressing the brakes )

What’s the stopping distance at 30 miles an hour?

truck stop

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

car

A little short of four Winds he stopped the car and they shared the remains of the picnic.

And Darlington council plan to put tree stumps around the area to stop cars getting through.

We stopped the car and got out.

I stopped the car in the entrance to the farm and would the window down an inch or two.

During the drive home, we stop the car on the side of the highway, climb out and stare upward.

When it is finished, people will stop their cars to gawp.

He stopped the car and rubbed his eyes.

heart

Then we saw the church and my heart nearly stopped .

A mile away, they no longer can be eagles, and the heart stops .

When she saw Andrew it seemed to her as if her heart had stopped beating.

They found her on the floor with a cracked pelvis and a heart that had almost stopped .

I can't see, but I must feel, or my heart will stop , and my brain will burst!

Illness related to his heart and immune system stopped the resurgent banker in his tracks.

track

The sound began before our search was completed and it stopped me in my tracks , leaving Malc to continue alone.

I stopped dead in my tracks , unsure of what to do next.

A dreadful thought struck Jean, and she stopped in her tracks , right in the middle of the pavement.

People stop in their tracks and stare.

Several times I was stopped in my tracks by the sight of something I could not identify.

Petey stopped dead in his tracks at the question.

It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry.

It literally stopped me in my tracks .

■ VERB

try

I try and stop myself, but I just start crying.

They had thrown bottles at the windscreen and tried to stop him.

I tried to stop , but I couldn't do it.

Both have too enthusiastically encouraged this trend, and too halfheartedly tried to stop it.

He turns back and tries to stop her, but fails.

He was ready to slide off the bed again and try to stop me.

We have been trying to stop the deteriorating effects of ageing on our skin since the times of the pharaohs.

They glance at her without interest, they do not try to stop her.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

make a pit stop

start/stop the clock

The clock is stopped when a player runs out of bounds with the ball.

If you are bled totally dry and white, they will simply stop the clock .

Some expend tremendous energy desperately trying to stop the clock .

You start the clock , paint the glue, fit the pieces, block the cramps.

stop short

At the crest of the hill, she stopped short as she read a warning sign next to the trail.

Both stop short of demanding censorship, though Mary Whitehouse is characteristically less tentative.

Even then I stopped short of making a complaint.

He believed in a kind of progressive development of forms, but like Forbes stopped short of an actual evolutionary theory.

He reads a few lines and stops short .

He stopped short of making recommendations about weapons programs in his 90-minute meeting at the White House.

It goes without saying that all this stops short at the people, who have been abandoned to the authorities' exploitation.

The door opened abruptly, and over Roman's shoulder Claudia saw Dana stop short in confusion.

Wisely, perhaps, Marochnik stops short of drawing any dramatic conclusions, but two things are clear.

stop short of doing sth

Paula stopped just short of calling me a thief.

But they have stopped short of rejecting the idea altogether.

Doctors stop short of saying the disease is always fatal, but medical literature paints a bleak picture.

Even then I stopped short of making a complaint.

He believed in a kind of progressive development of forms, but like Forbes stopped short of an actual evolutionary theory.

His passion has only just stopped short of writing a structural critique of the civil engineering faults at Valhalla.

Wisely, perhaps, Marochnik stops short of drawing any dramatic conclusions, but two things are clear.

Yet we stop short of analysing what it is.

stop/halt (dead) in your tracks

A dreadful thought struck Jean, and she stopped in her tracks , right in the middle of the pavement.

An hour later they were halted in their tracks by a cataract not marked on the map.

Blue speaks her name, in a voice that seems strange to him, and she stops dead in her tracks .

I stopped dead in my tracks , unsure of what to do next.

It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry.

People stop in their tracks and stare.

Petey stopped dead in his tracks at the question.

The people had stopped in their tracks , women were making their children stand behind them.

the buck stops here

It was my decision to close the hospital; the buck stops with me.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A man stopped me in the street and asked if I knew where the theatre was.

A yellow car stopped outside the house.

All the staff are determined to stop bullying in the school.

Can we stop at the next services and get something to eat?

Catherine stood watching the rain, hoping it would stop soon.

Could you stop just here on the left?

Could you stop making that noise for a moment?

Could you stop what you are doing and pay attention, please?

Does this train stop at Lyon?

George stopped the engine and got out of the car.

He wanted to quit college, and no one could stop him.

He wrote quickly, but from time to time he stopped and looked out of the window.

I'm not stopping, I've just popped in to pick up some books.

I've made up my mind to leave home, and you can't stop me.

I stopped going to church after I left home.

I stopped reading and turned out the light.

I stopped to rest for a few minutes.

I gave my little brother some chocolate to stop him crying.

I got stopped by a policeman for having a broken headlight.

I saw Maria and stopped to say hello.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

I want to reclaim it - so I can stop being a casualty of this war that has no name.

Our tanks and tracks kept going a little bit and stopped to return fire immediately.

So eventually I stopped even going for the tests.

The emperor himself could not stop it now.

They wanted to stop equality for black people and to kill anyone who didn't agree with them.

When I asked Jasper what had stopped him from accepting these large offers, the question startled him.

When Jack put a foot on the dance floor, some, then all couples stopped and the band trailed off.

II. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

brief

In 1979 Tom Kendall joined the desk from Wharton, with a brief intervening stop in the back office.

About half way back, he made a brief stop and flung the empty gasoline can far into the night.

He and his cameraman spent 17 hours traveling from one hilly location to the next, with a brief stop in Scottsdale.

After a brief stop at Gairlochy, I decide to make straight for Fiona's croft.

dead

We were on the verge of an affair, but the moment he met you everything came to a dead stop .

Caroline nodded, drew a deep breath, made her entrance ... And came to a dead stop .

overnight

Then at Dunkirk we set off on the first 400-mile stage to our overnight stop at Vandanesse.

Foreigners generally get off at Novosibirsk for an overnight stop , but I stayed on the train.

If you wish, we can arrange for your luggage to be sent on ahead to each of the overnight stops .

One such overnight stop was in Allentown, Pennsylvania, to stay with and enlist the support of pilot Dorothy Leh.

Souk Sebt, a Saturday marketplace, was our overnight stop .

This journey also includes an overnight stop near Wurzburg.

We cross to Calais and continue to Brussels for our first overnight stop .

short

After a short stop , it's back into midstream towards Cochem and its splendid hilltop castle.

Fern Lodge, Highgate, was one of their shorter stops , when it briefly became a centre of the literary universe.

It's only a short stop to the sand and pebble beach where watersports are also available.

voiceless

The symbol T indicates a following voiceless stop or sonorant + voiceless stop cluster.

For example, extraneous voiceless stops are often hypothesized at utterance onset.

■ NOUN

campaign

At a rural campaign stop in 1987, she announced she wanted to address some distant onlookers.

Dole had one of those governors at his side during every campaign stop in the Midwest.

Clinton, during a campaign stop in Michigan, said he would welcome the Perot at the debates.

■ VERB

come

We came to a stop outside my bedroom door and he made a lurching movement.

He glowered at a taxi as it came to a noisy stop at the light.

Lacuna came to a stop behind her, and pulled her gently into an embrace that for once was nothing but tender.

We reached the border gate at half past four and when we did, the bus came to an abrupt stop .

And then she realised that the hoof beats of his horse had come to an abrupt stop .

An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.

Stirling's jeep was hit and came to a stop .

He kept his eye on a tan Ford turning slowly into the station and coming to a stop near the service area.

draw

He had actually succeeded in drifting forward and downward again, when the voice drew him to a stop once more.

make

We made our usual rest stop and got water from the mountainside that had been piped in, so pure and tasty.

As the southbound train hit the New Hampshire-Maine border, it made an unscheduled stop .

About half way back, he made a brief stop and flung the empty gasoline can far into the night.

pull

There were occasions when Bloomsbury House pulled out all the stops on behalf of children who were clearly gifted - usually in the arts.

Do you suppose he has to accuse us of aggression and pull out all stops on cheap emotionalism?

We pulled out all the stops and gave the company a response in record time.

CafÄ Pinot is pulling out all the stops with its four-course aphrodisiac menu.

Lott pulled out all the stops .

But she had only ever pulled the stops out for people she loved and respected.

Soap bosses pulled out all the stops so football fever could infect Albert Square.

put

I thought I'd put a stop to this nonsense!

The master put a stop to the nonsense the moment he walked in.

It's coming out of our taxes, that's where, and we ought to put a stop to it.

An attempt to annex nearby Epizephyrian Lokri was put a stop to by Hiero in 478.

The young dancer put a stop to our writing, as I had expected.

We did have a couple of suicides, but I soon put a stop to that.

Yet a polite, reasoned reply seldom puts a stop to the exchange.

roll

I cut the motor and roll to a slow stop .

Soon after the bus hit the strip, it rolled to a stop .

And, then, it lands with a thud and a screech until everything rolls to a complete stop .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

come to a halt/stop

Almost at once there was a slight crunch of gravel under wheels as a vehicle came to a halt.

An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.

As it came to a stop, it widened the frenzied cluster of moths surrounding the yellow platform light over his head.

He rose and led them both down the stone steps, coming to a halt at the entrance to the vestry door.

The elevator rose smoothly, then came to a stop.

The score indicates how far the ball bounces forward before it comes to a halt.

The train lurches into movement, then, quickly, comes to a halt.

draw to a halt/stop

She heard a large vehicle draw to a halt behind her on the main road.

She stood there while it drew to a halt.

She turned as the car drew to a halt.

The car drew to a halt alongside the front door, and an instant later the driver's door swung open.

The coach had drawn to a halt outside the Theater an der Wien.

The convoy drew to a halt in front of the hotel.

The taxi drew to a halt where a purple awning reached out to the edge of the pavement.

make a pit stop

put a stop/an end to sth

It's time the community worked together to put an end to the violence.

Her old feeling for him had returned; she was determined to put an end to his sufferings and bring him home.

It was Gloucester who chose to put an end to it.

Judge Frossard, it seems, wanted to put an end to the inertia.

Swiftly introduce new legislation to put an end to the trauma and misery suffered by child witnesses in court proceedings.

That put an end to any stunt deemed risky, Weiss says.

This trite communication put an end to Emma's overtures and she began to fade from their lives.

Thus the event of her puberty puts an end to her pure childhood.

To put an end to such exalted talk, I asked Mendl to tell me about Spats-making machinery.

stop short

At the crest of the hill, she stopped short as she read a warning sign next to the trail.

Both stop short of demanding censorship, though Mary Whitehouse is characteristically less tentative.

Even then I stopped short of making a complaint.

He believed in a kind of progressive development of forms, but like Forbes stopped short of an actual evolutionary theory.

He reads a few lines and stops short .

He stopped short of making recommendations about weapons programs in his 90-minute meeting at the White House.

It goes without saying that all this stops short at the people, who have been abandoned to the authorities' exploitation.

The door opened abruptly, and over Roman's shoulder Claudia saw Dana stop short in confusion.

Wisely, perhaps, Marochnik stops short of drawing any dramatic conclusions, but two things are clear.

stop short of doing sth

Paula stopped just short of calling me a thief.

But they have stopped short of rejecting the idea altogether.

Doctors stop short of saying the disease is always fatal, but medical literature paints a bleak picture.

Even then I stopped short of making a complaint.

He believed in a kind of progressive development of forms, but like Forbes stopped short of an actual evolutionary theory.

His passion has only just stopped short of writing a structural critique of the civil engineering faults at Valhalla.

Wisely, perhaps, Marochnik stops short of drawing any dramatic conclusions, but two things are clear.

Yet we stop short of analysing what it is.

stop/halt (dead) in your tracks

A dreadful thought struck Jean, and she stopped in her tracks , right in the middle of the pavement.

An hour later they were halted in their tracks by a cataract not marked on the map.

Blue speaks her name, in a voice that seems strange to him, and she stops dead in her tracks .

I stopped dead in my tracks , unsure of what to do next.

It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry.

People stop in their tracks and stare.

Petey stopped dead in his tracks at the question.

The people had stopped in their tracks , women were making their children stand behind them.

the buck stops here

It was my decision to close the hospital; the buck stops with me.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Excuse me, could you tell me what the next stop is?

I'm getting off at the next stop .

Our trip to Africa included a stop in the Serengeti.

We need to get off at the next stop .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.

At Freeport, the Jones Beach stop , was the mad dash for the bus.

Having reached Aulef and taken on water, that night was a pit stop .

If you're looking for ground-breaking mayhem, you got off at the wrong Greyhound stop .

The crystal ensures that the interval between reset and stop is stable and accurate.

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