usage: 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
usage: the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
2. stop, halt, ending, conclusion, finish
usage: the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
3. stop, stoppage, act, deed, human action, human activity
usage: a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
4. stop, stopover, layover, stay
usage: the state of inactivity following an interruption; "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"
usage: 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"
8. period, point, full stop, stop, full point, punctuation, punctuation mark
usage: (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes; "the organist pulled out all the stops"
9. stop, knob
usage: a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"
10. diaphragm, stop, mechanical device
usage: a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
11. catch, stop, restraint, constraint
usage: an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
Verb
1. stop, halt
usage: come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
2. discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off
usage: put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
usage: prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"
7. check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back, defend
usage: hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
8. intercept, stop, catch, grab, take hold of
usage: seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"
9. end, stop, finish, terminate, cease
usage: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "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 ends in a pianissimo"
10. barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar, obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up
usage: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
11. hold on, stop, interrupt, break
usage: stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!"