n.
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
n.
the event of something ending
the act of stopping something
a brief stay in the course of a journey
the state of inactivity following an interruption
a spot where something halts or pauses
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
a restraint that checks the motion of something
an obstruction in a pipe or tube
v.
come to a halt, stop moving
put an end to a state or an activity
stop from happening or developing
interrupt a trip
cause to stop
prevent completion
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
seize on its way
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
render unsuitable for passage
stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
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