Word Definitions & Examples
noun
Sense 3
"it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
verb
Sense 4
"stop a car"
"stop the thief"
Causes:
halt
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s something with something
Somebody ----s on something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
verb
Sense 5
"the car stopped"
"She stopped in front of a store window"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
verb
Sense 7
"we stopped at Aunt Mary''s house"
"they stopped for three days in Florence"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
verb
Sense 8
"Block his election"
"Halt the process"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
noun
Sense 9
"the third baseman made some remarkable stops"
"his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
verb
Sense 10
"the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"
"Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"
"My property ends by the bushes"
"The symphony end"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something to somebody
verb
Sense 11
seize on its way
"The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country''s airspace"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s something with something
verb
Sense 12
"Hold on a moment!"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something
verb
Sense 13
"Quit teasing your little brother"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Frame 33
Something is ----ing PP
noun
Sense 14
"he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
noun
Sense 17
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"
Kinds of:
suspension point
Derived:
point
verb
Sense 18
"block the way"
"barricade the streets"
"stop the busy road"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
verb
Sense 19
"Arrest the downward trend"
"Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia"
"Contain the rebel movement"
"Turn back the tide of communism"
Type of:
defend
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s something with something
Somebody ----s on something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
verb
Sense 20
"stop the project"
"break off the negociations"
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody into V-ing something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
noun
Sense 21
"we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
noun
Sense 22
"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"
Semantic Complexity
100%
Sense Count
22
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
210
Times Searched
28
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