stops

stops

名词 stops:

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); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

同义词:Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle

名词 stop:

the event of something ending

同义词:stop, halt

the act of stopping something

同义词:stop, stoppage

a brief stay in the course of a journey

同义词:stop, stopover, layover

the state of inactivity following an interruption

同义词:arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage

a spot where something halts or pauses

同义词:stop

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

同义词:stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive

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

同义词:period, point, full stop, stop, full point

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

同义词:stop

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

同义词:diaphragm, stop

a restraint that checks the motion of something

同义词:catch, stop

an obstruction in a pipe or tube

同义词:blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage

动词 stop:

come to a halt, stop moving

同义词:stop, halt

put an end to a state or an activity

同义词:discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off

stop from happening or developing

同义词:stop, halt, block, kibosh

interrupt a trip

同义词:stop, stop over

cause to stop

同义词:stop

prevent completion

同义词:break, break off, discontinue, stop

hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

同义词:check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back

seize on its way

同义词:intercept, stop

have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical

同义词:end, stop, finish, terminate, cease

render unsuitable for passage

同义词:barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar

stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments

同义词:hold on, stop

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