3. v. To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.
This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him.
4. v. To cause (something) to come to an end.
The referees stopped the fight.
5. v. To close or block an opening.
He stopped the wound with gauze.
6. v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.
7. v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
to stop with a friend
He stopped for two weeks at the inn.
8. v. (intransitive) To tarry.
He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.
9. v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
10. v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
11. v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
12. n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
They agreed to see each other at the bus stop.
13. n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
That stop was not planned.
14. n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object
door stop -
15. n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis; a plosive.
16. n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
17. n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
Pull out all the stops.
18. n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.
19. n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
20. n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.
21. n. (photography) An f-stop.
22. n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
23. n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
24. n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
25. adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
He’s stop still.
26. adv. ====Punctuation====
27. adv. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
28. n. (UK dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
29. adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
1. n. (obsolete) The fact of standing still; motionlessness, stasis.
2. n. (astronomy) The apparent standing still of a superior planet just before it begins or ends its retrograde motion.
3. n. A stopping place.
4. n. A regular stopping place for ground transportation.
The next station is Esperanza.
5. n. A ground transportation depot.
It's right across from the bus station.
6. n. A place where one stands or stays or is assigned to stand or stay.
From my station at the front door, I greeted every visitor.
All ships are on station, Admiral.
7. n. (US) A gas station, service station.
8. n. A place where workers are stationed.
9. n. An official building from which police or firefighters operate.
The police station is opposite the fire station.
10. n. A place where one performs a task or where one is on call to perform a task.
The waitress was at her station preparing three checks.
The station is part of a group of stations run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
11. n. A military base.
She had a boyfriend at the station.
12. n. A place used for broadcasting radio or television.
I used to work at a radio station.
13. n. (Australia, New Zealand) A very large sheep or cattle farm.
14. n. One of the Stations of the Cross.
15. n. The Roman Catholic fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
16. n. A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
17. n. Standing; rank; position.
She had ambitions beyond her station.
18. n. A broadcasting entity.
I used to listen to that radio station.
19. n. (Newfoundland) A harbour or cove with a foreshore suitable for a facility to support nearby fishing.
20. n. (surveying) Any of a sequence of equally spaced points along a path.
21. n. The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
22. n. (mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accommodation of a pump, tank, etc.
23. n. Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
24. n. (medicine) The position of the foetal head in relation to the distance from the ischial spines, measured in centimetres.
25. v. To put in place to perform a task.
The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.
26. v. To put in place to perform military duty.
They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.
bus stop
1. バス停, 停留所
bus stop
1. n. A place where public transport buses stop to allow passengers to board or leave.
2. n. A disco dance popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
bus station
bus station
1. n. A major bus stop, one that serves as a transfer point between a large number of routes.
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