Meaning

• A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.

  "They agreed to meet at the bus stop."

• An action of stopping; interruption of travel.

  "That stop was not planned."

• That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.

• A device intended to block the path of a moving object

  "door stop"

• 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.

• A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.

  "The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled."

• One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.

• A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.

• The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.

  "The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked."

• A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.

• A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.

• An f-stop.

• The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.

• A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.

Meaning

• To cease moving.

  "I stopped at the traffic lights."

• To not continue.

  "Soon the rain will stop."

• To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.

  "The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks."

• To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).

  "One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting."

• To cause (something) to come to an end.

  "The referees stopped the fight."

• To close or block an opening.

  "He stopped the wound with gauze."

• (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."

• To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.

  "He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive."

• To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.

• To punctuate.

• To make fast; to stopper.