Stop

From WikiMD's Wellness Encyclopedia

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

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Contributors: Prab R. Tumpati, MD