stops

英文释义

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