Definitions of stop:

• noun:   a brief stay in the course of a journey

  Example: "They made a stopover to visit their friends"

• noun:   the act of stopping something

  Example: "The third baseman made some remarkable stops"

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

  Example: "The organist pulled out all the stops"

• noun:   the event of something ending

  Example: "It came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"

• noun:   a spot where something halts or pauses

  Example: "His next stop is Atlanta"

• noun:   a restraint that checks the motion of something

  Example: "He used a book as a stop to hold the door open"

• noun:   a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
• noun:   a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it

  Example: "His stop consonants are too aspirated"

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

  Example: "In England they call a period a stop"

• noun:   an obstruction in a pipe or tube
• noun:   the state of inactivity following an interruption

  Example: "He spent the entire stop in his seat"

• verb:   stop from happening or developing
• verb:   cause to stop

  Example: "Stop a car"

• verb:   come to a halt, stop moving

  Example: "The car stopped"

• verb:   interrupt a trip

  Example: "We stopped at Aunt Mary's house"

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

  Example: "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"

• verb:   put an end to a state or an activity
• verb:   stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
• verb:   seize on its way
• verb:   prevent completion

  Example: "Stop the project"

• verb:   hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
• verb:   render unsuitable for passage

  Example: "Stop the busy road"