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We have spotted STOP (4 Letters) a total of 227 times in our database. Below you may see the clues associated with STOP and also when and where was it last seen:
Definition
• | To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound. |
• | To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage. |
• | To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood. |
• | To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity. |
• | To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part. |
• | To point, as a composition; to punctuate. |
• | To make fast; to stopper. |
• | To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop. |
• | To cease from any motion, or course of action. |
• | To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend. |
• | The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction. |
• | That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction. |
• | A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought. |
• | The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated. |
• | In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop. |
• | A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far. |
• | A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation. |
• | The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses. |
• | The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds. |
• | Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed. |
Referring crossword puzzle clues
- Hold it right there!
- Break
- No more of that!
- No more
- Subway station
- Sphere
- Hit the brakes
- Hold your horses!
- Eight-sided sign
- Cut that out!
- See red?
- Don’t go there!
- Break off
- Remote button
- Organ valve
- Cut it out
- Don't go any further!
- I cant take it any longer!
- End
- Leave off
- Don't move
- Red’s meaning, sometimes
- Red's meaning sometimes
- 'Knock it off!'
- Word to opt out of a text subscription
- Word on a red octagonal sign
- Step before drop and roll when on fire
- Driver's respite
- What to do when you see red?
- Oh you flatter me!
- Market order
- Word on a red sign and when parsed in three parts a hint to this puzzles longest answers
- Put a halt to
- Word with bus or door
- React to red
- Octagonal sign
- Organ part
- 'Halt!'
- What a crossing guards outstretched arm means
- Cease or desist
- Word on an octagon
- Knock it off!
- Subway map marking
- Quit it!
- I've had enough!
- Cut it out!
- Intersection sign
- Freeze!
- Red light meaning
- Red street-corner sign
- Discontinue
- Cease
- Halt!
- “Go no further!”
- 'Cut it out!'
- Uncle!
- Enough!
- Desist
- Red light instruction
- Come to a halt
- Halt
Usage among publishers:
- Wall Street Journal: Nov 15, 2024
- Wall Street Journal: Oct 26, 2024
- LA Times: Oct 17, 2024
- Universal: Oct 6, 2024
- USA Today: Sep 22, 2024
- New York Times: Aug 23, 2024
- LA Times: Aug 6, 2024
- LA Times: Jul 8, 2024
- Universal: Jul 4, 2024
- LA Times: May 18, 2024
- Wall Street Journal: May 14, 2024
- Wall Street Journal: May 11, 2024
- Wall Street Journal: May 1, 2024
- Newsday: Apr 18, 2024
- Newsday: Mar 29, 2024
- Newsday: Feb 18, 2024
- USA Today: Jan 27, 2024
- New York Times: Jan 22, 2024
- LA Times: Jan 15, 2024
- Newsday: Dec 22, 2023
- Newsday: Nov 26, 2023
- Wall Street Journal: Nov 9, 2023
- Newsday: Oct 11, 2023
- USA Today: Oct 1, 2023
- Universal: Sep 24, 2023
- Universal: Sep 20, 2023
- Universal: Sep 16, 2023
- New York Times: Sep 1, 2023