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Stop
English
Pronunciation
Verb
Intransitive
to stop (stops, stopped, stopping)
- to cease moving
- I stopped at the traffic lights.
- to come to an end
- The riots stopped when police moved in.
- It will stop raining soon.
Translations
- Bulgarian: спирам (1)
- Dutch: stoppen , halthouden , stilstaan , ophouden
- Esperanto: halti , haltigi , cxesigi
- Finnish: pysähtyä
- French: s'arrêter , s'immobiliser , cesser
- German: anhalten (1), stehen bleiben (1), stoppen (1), aufhören (2)
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- Japanese: 止まる, (とまる, tomaru)
- Portuguese: parar, deter
- Romanian: opri (1) termina (2)
- Slovak: zastaviť sa (1), prestať (2)
- Spanish: parar, pararse , imobilisarse , dejar de
- Swedish: stanna (1), sluta (2), upphöra (2)
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Transitive
- to cause (something) to cease moving
- The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.
- to cause (something) to come to an end
- The referees stopped the fight.
Translations
- Bulgarian: спирам (1), прекратявам (2)
- German: anhalten (1), stoppen (1, 2), beenden (2)
- Finnish: pysäyttää , loppua
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- Slovak: zastaviť (1), prerušiť (2)
- Swedish: stanna (1), stoppa (1, generally more abruptly than stanna ; 2), avbryta (2)
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Synonyms
- cancel, cease, discontinue , terminate
Antonyms
- continue, go, move, proceed
Noun
stop (stops )
- a (usually marked) place where line buses or trams halt to let passengers get on and off
- They agreed to see each other at the bus stop.
- an action of stopping; interruption of travel
- That stop was not planned.
- a device intended to block the path of a moving object; as, a door stop
- (Linguistics) a consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis
- a symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- Short for a stopper, used in the phrase 'pull out all the stops'.
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible
Synonyms
Translations
- Bulgarian: спирка f (1), спиране n (2), оклузив m (5)
- Dutch: halte f (1), stop m (2)
- Esperanto: haltejo (1)
- Finnish: pysäkki , seisake , pysähdys
- French: arrêt m (1,2)
- German: Haltestelle f (1), Einhalt m (2), Pause f (2), Stopp m (2,6), Stopper m (3), Aufhalter m (3), Verschlusslaut m (4)
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- Portuguese: parada f, interrupção f
- Romanian: staţie f (1), oprire f (2)
- Slovak: zastávka f (1)
- Spanish: parada f, paradero m (1)
- Swedish: hållplats (1), stopp (2)
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Abverb
- Prone to halting or hesitation.
- He stop started his car.
- He's stop still.
- (Note that in the phrase 'stop walking' for instance both 'stop' and 'walking' are adjectives.)
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA : /stop/
- SAMPA : /stop/
Noun
stop m (plural: stoppen , diminutive stopje , plural diminutive stopjes )
- an electric fuse
- an action of stopping
Verb
stop
- first person singular indicative of verb stoppen
Translations
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