| nonstop | | |
| n. (act) | 1. nonstop, nonstop flight | a flight made without intermediate stops between source and destination.; "how many nonstops are there to Dallas?" |
| ~ flight | a scheduled trip by plane between designated airports.; "I took the noon flight to Chicago" |
| adj. | 2. nonstop | (of a journey especially a flight) occurring without stops.; "a nonstop flight to Atlanta" |
| ~ direct | direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short.; "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit" |
| adj. | 3. around-the-clock, day-and-night, nonstop, round-the-clock | at all times.; "around-the-clock nursing care" |
| ~ continuous, uninterrupted | continuing in time or space without interruption.; "a continuous rearrangement of electrons in the solar atoms results in the emission of light"; "a continuous bout of illness lasting six months"; "lived in continuous fear"; "a continuous row of warehouses"; "a continuous line has no gaps or breaks in it"; "moving midweek holidays to the nearest Monday or Friday allows uninterrupted work weeks" |
| adv. | 4. nonstop | without stopping.; "we are flying nonstop form New York to Tokyo" |
| discontinue | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, stop | put an end to a state or an activity.; "Quit teasing your little brother" |
| ~ knock off, drop | stop pursuing or acting.; "drop a lawsuit"; "knock it off!" |
| ~ leave off | stop using.; "leave off your jacket--no need to wear it here" |
| ~ sign off | cease broadcasting; get off the air; as of radio stations. |
| ~ retire, withdraw | withdraw from active participation.; "He retired from chess" |
| ~ pull the plug | prevent from happening or continuing.; "The government pulled the plug on spending" |
| ~ close off, shut off | stem the flow of.; "shut off the gas when you leave for a vacation" |
| ~ cheese | used in the imperative (get away, or stop it).; "Cheese it!" |
| ~ call it a day, call it quits | stop doing what one is doing.; "At midnight, the student decided to call it quits and closed his books" |
| ~ break | give up.; "break cigarette smoking" |
| v. (stative) | 2. discontinue | come to or be at an end.; "the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31" |
| ~ end, cease, terminate, finish, stop | 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" |
| ~ fizzle, fizzle out, peter out, taper off | end weakly.; "The music just petered out--there was no proper ending" |
| ~ leave off | come to an end, stop or cease.; "the road leaves off at the edge of the forest"; "leave off where you started" |
| ~ expire, run out | lose validity.; "My passports expired last month" |
| v. (change) | 3. break, break off, discontinue, stop | prevent completion.; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" |
| ~ fracture | become fractured.; "The tibia fractured from the blow of the iron pipe" |
| ~ terminate, end | bring to an end or halt.; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" |
| ~ bog down, bog | get stuck while doing something.; "She bogged down many times while she wrote her dissertation" |
| ~ cut off, disrupt, interrupt, break up | make a break in.; "We interrupt the program for the following messages" |
| end | | |
| n. (location) | 1. end, terminal | either extremity of something that has length.; "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line"; "the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix" |
| ~ bitter end | (nautical) the inboard end of a line or cable especially the end that is wound around a bitt. |
| ~ bitthead | the upper end of a bitt. |
| ~ heel | the lower end of a ship's mast. |
| ~ point | sharp end.; "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil" |
| ~ magnetic pole, pole | one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated. |
| ~ railhead | the end of the completed track on an unfinished railway. |
| ~ terminus | either end of a railroad or bus route. |
| ~ yardarm | either end of the yard of a square-rigged ship. |
| ~ nerve end, nerve ending | the terminal structure of an axon that does not end at a synapse. |
| ~ telomere | either (free) end of a eukaryotic chromosome.; "telomeres act as caps to keep the sticky ends of chromosomes from randomly clumping together" |
| ~ heel | one of the crusty ends of a loaf of bread. |
| ~ end point, endpoint, terminus, termination | a place where something ends or is complete. |
| ~ destination, goal, finish | the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey).; "a crowd assembled at the finish"; "he was nearly exhausted as their destination came into view" |
| ~ extremity | the outermost or farthest region or point. |
| ~ tip | the extreme end of something; especially something pointed. |
| n. (time) | 2. end, ending | the point in time at which something ends.; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period" |
| ~ last, death | the time at which life ends; continuing until dead.; "she stayed until his death"; "a struggle to the last" |
| ~ demise, dying, death | the time when something ends.; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes" |
| ~ period | the end or completion of something.; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility" |
| ~ point in time, point | an instant of time.; "at that point I had to leave" |
| ~ year-end | the end of a calendar year.; "he had to unload the merchandise before the year-end" |
| ~ close, finis, last, stopping point, finale, finish, conclusion | the temporal end; the concluding time.; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season" |
| ~ cease | (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end. |
| ~ fag end, tail end, tail | the time of the last part of something.; "the fag end of this crisis-ridden century"; "the tail of the storm" |
| ~ last gasp | the point of death or exhaustion or completion.; "the last gasp of the cold war" |
| ~ expiration, expiry, termination | a coming to an end of a contract period.; "the expiry of his driver's license" |
| ~ terminal point, terminus ad quem, limit | final or latest limiting point. |
| n. (event) | 3. end, final stage, last | the concluding parts of an event or occurrence.; "the end was exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie" |
| ~ conclusion, ending, finish | event whose occurrence ends something.; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show" |
| ~ end game, endgame | the final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board. |
| ~ end game, endgame | the final stages of an extended process of negotiation.; "the diplomatic endgame" |
| ~ homestretch | the end of an enterprise.; "they were on the homestretch when the computer crashed" |
| ~ passing | the end of something.; "the passing of winter" |
| n. (cognition) | 4. end, goal | the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it.; "the ends justify the means" |
| ~ cognitive content, mental object, content | the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned. |
| ~ plan of action | a plan for actively doing something. |
| ~ objective, aim, object, target | the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable).; "the sole object of her trip was to see her children" |
| ~ bourn, bourne | an archaic term for a goal or destination. |
| ~ end-all | the ultimate goal.; "human beings are not the end-all of evolution" |
| ~ destination, terminus | the ultimate goal for which something is done. |
| ~ no-goal | a nonexistent goal.; "he lived without a reason progressing toward no-goal" |
| ~ aim, intent, intention, purpose, design | an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.; "his intent was to provide a new translation"; "good intentions are not enough"; "it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs"; "he made no secret of his designs" |
| ~ intention | (usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal.; "his intentions are entirely honorable" |
| n. (cognition) | 5. end | a final part or section.; "we have given it at the end of the section since it involves the calculus"; "Start at the beginning and go on until you come to the end" |
| ~ division, section, part | one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole.; "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division" |
| n. (state) | 6. death, destruction, end | a final state.; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end" |
| ~ state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes.; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" |
| n. (location) | 7. end | the surface at either extremity of a three-dimensional object.; "one end of the box was marked `This side up'" |
| ~ surface | the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object.; "they skimmed over the surface of the water"; "a brush small enough to clean every dental surface"; "the sun has no distinct surface" |
| n. (person) | 8. end | (football) the person who plays at one end of the line of scrimmage.; "the end managed to hold onto the pass" |
| ~ football, football game | any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal. |
| ~ lineman | one of the players on the line of scrimmage. |
| ~ split end | (football) an offensive end who lines up at a distance from the other linemen. |
| ~ tight end | (football) an offensive end who lines up close to the tackle. |
| n. (location) | 9. end | a boundary marking the extremities of something.; "the end of town" |
| ~ boundary, bounds, bound | the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something. |
| n. (location) | 10. end | one of two places from which people are communicating to each other.; "the phone rang at the other end"; "both ends wrote at the same time" |
| ~ place, spot, topographic point | a point located with respect to surface features of some region.; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet" |
| n. (act) | 11. end | the part you are expected to play.; "he held up his end" |
| ~ contribution, share, part | the part played by a person in bringing about a result.; "I am proud of my contribution in advancing the project"; "they all did their share of the work" |
| n. (communication) | 12. close, closing, conclusion, end, ending | the last section of a communication.; "in conclusion I want to say..." |
| ~ anticlimax, bathos | a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one. |
| ~ section, subdivision | a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical).; "he always turns first to the business section"; "the history of this work is discussed in the next section" |
| ~ epilog, epilogue | a short passage added at the end of a literary work.; "the epilogue told what eventually happened to the main characters" |
| ~ epilog, epilogue | a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play. |
| ~ peroration | (rhetoric) the concluding section of an oration.; "he summarized his main points in his peroration" |
| ~ coda, finale | the closing section of a musical composition. |
| ~ recital, yarn, narration | the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events.; "his narration was hesitant" |
| ~ speech, address | the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience.; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets" |
| n. (artifact) | 13. end, oddment, remainder, remnant | a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold. |
| ~ fag end | the frayed end of a length of cloth or rope. |
| ~ piece of cloth, piece of material | a separate part consisting of fabric. |
| n. (act) | 14. end | (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage.; "no one wanted to play end" |
| ~ lineman | (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage. |
| ~ football team, eleven | a team that plays football. |
| v. (stative) | 15. cease, end, finish, stop, terminate | 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" |
| ~ pass away | go out of existence.; "She hoped that the problem would eventually pass away" |
| ~ lapse | end, at least for a long time.; "The correspondence lapsed" |
| ~ cut out | cease operating.; "The pump suddenly cut out" |
| ~ go out | become extinguished.; "The lights suddenly went out and we were in the dark" |
| ~ adjourn, recess, break up | close at the end of a session.; "The court adjourned" |
| ~ disappear, vanish | cease to exist.; "An entire civilization vanished" |
| ~ climax, culminate | end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage.; "The meeting culminated in a tearful embrace" |
| ~ run out | become used up; be exhausted.; "Our supplies finally ran out" |
| ~ run low, run short, go | to be spent or finished.; "The money had gone after a few days"; "Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest" |
| ~ disappear, vanish, go away | become invisible or unnoticeable.; "The effect vanished when day broke" |
| ~ conclude, close | come to a close.; "The concert closed with a nocturne by Chopin" |
| ~ come out, turn out | result or end.; "How will the game turn out?" |
| ~ discontinue | come to or be at an end.; "the support from our sponsoring agency will discontinue after March 31" |
| ~ break | come to an end.; "The heat wave finally broke yesterday" |
| v. (change) | 16. end, terminate | bring to an end or halt.; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" |
| ~ alter, change, modify | cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
| ~ close out | terminate.; "We closed out our account" |
| ~ finish | cause to finish a relationship with somebody.; "That finished me with Mary" |
| ~ abort | terminate before completion.; "abort the mission"; "abort the process running on my computer" |
| ~ culminate | bring to a head or to the highest point.; "Seurat culminated pointillism" |
| ~ lift, raise | put an end to.; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege" |
| ~ ax, axe | terminate.; "The NSF axed the research program and stopped funding it" |
| ~ stamp out, kill | end or extinguish by forceful means.; "Stamp out poverty!" |
| ~ dissolve, break up | come to an end.; "Their marriage dissolved"; "The tobacco monopoly broke up" |
| ~ dissolve, break up | bring the association of to an end or cause to break up.; "The decree officially dissolved the marriage"; "the judge dissolved the tobacco company" |
| ~ break off, discontinue, stop, break | prevent completion.; "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations" |
| ~ break, interrupt | terminate.; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty" |
| ~ crush out, press out, stub out, extinguish | extinguish by crushing.; "stub out your cigar" |
| ~ finalise, finalize, nail down, settle | make final; put the last touches on; put into final form.; "let's finalize the proposal" |
| ~ complete, finish | come or bring to a finish or an end.; "He finished the dishes"; "She completed the requirements for her Master's Degree"; "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours" |
| ~ closure, cloture | terminate debate by calling for a vote.; "debate was closured"; "cloture the discussion" |
| ~ resolve, adjudicate, decide, settle | bring to an end; settle conclusively.; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance" |
| ~ conclude | bring to a close.; "The committee concluded the meeting" |
| ~ close | complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement.; "We closed on the house on Friday"; "They closed the deal on the building" |
| ~ phase out | terminate gradually. |
| ~ close | finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.).; "The meeting was closed with a charge by the chairman of the board" |
| ~ end, cease, terminate, finish, stop | 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" |
| v. (stative) | 17. end, terminate | be the end of; be the last or concluding part of.; "This sad scene ended the movie" |
| ~ close | cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop. |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (creation) | 18. end | put an end to.; "The terrible news ended our hopes that he had survived" |
| ~ destroy, destruct | do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of.; "The fire destroyed the house" |
| halt | | |
| n. (state) | 1. arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage | 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" |
| ~ inaction, inactiveness, inactivity | the state of being inactive. |
| ~ countercheck | a check that restrains another check. |
| ~ logjam | any stoppage attributable to unusual activity.; "the legislation ran into a logjam" |
| n. (event) | 2. halt, stop | the event of something ending.; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill" |
| ~ conclusion, ending, finish | event whose occurrence ends something.; "his death marked the ending of an era"; "when these final episodes are broadcast it will be the finish of the show" |
| ~ cessation, surcease | a stopping.; "a cessation of the thunder" |
| ~ standstill, tie-up, stand | an interruption of normal activity. |
| n. (act) | 3. freeze, halt | an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement.; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze" |
| ~ pause | temporary inactivity. |
| v. (motion) | 4. arrest, halt, hold | cause to stop.; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses" |
| ~ stop | cause to stop.; "stop a car"; "stop the thief" |
| v. (motion) | 5. halt, stop | come to a halt, stop moving.; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" |
| ~ go off | stop running, functioning, or operating.; "Our power went off during the hurricane" |
| ~ pull up short | stop abruptly.; "The police car pulled up short and then turned around fast" |
| ~ check | stop for a moment, as if out of uncertainty or caution.; "She checked for an instant and missed a step" |
| ~ check | stop in a chase especially when scent is lost.; "The dog checked" |
| ~ check | abandon the intended prey, turn, and pursue an inferior prey. |
| ~ rein in, rein | stop or slow up one's horse or oneself by or as if by pulling the reins.; "They reined in in front of the post office" |
| ~ conk, stall | come to a stop.; "The car stalled in the driveway" |
| ~ stall | experience a stall in flight, of airplanes. |
| ~ haul up, pull up, draw up | come to a halt after driving somewhere.; "The Rolls pulled up on pour front lawn"; "The chauffeur hauled up in front of us" |
| ~ brake | stop travelling by applying a brake.; "We had to brake suddenly when a chicken crossed the road" |
| ~ settle | come to rest. |
| v. (social) | 6. block, halt, kibosh, stop | stop from happening or developing.; "Block his election"; "Halt the process" |
| ~ embargo | prevent commerce.; "The U.S. embargoes Libya" |
| ~ foreclose, forestall, preclude, prevent, forbid | keep from happening or arising; make impossible.; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project" |
| ~ stay | stop a judicial process.; "The judge stayed the execution order" |
| v. (change) | 7. halt, stanch, staunch, stem | stop the flow of a liquid.; "staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide" |
| ~ check | arrest the motion (of something) abruptly.; "He checked the flow of water by shutting off the main valve" |
| adj. | 8. crippled, game, gimpy, halt, halting, lame | disabled in the feet or legs.; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg" |
| ~ unfit | not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition.; "fat and very unfit"; "certified as unfit for army service"; "drunk and unfit for service" |
| quit | | |
| v. (social) | 1. leave office, quit, resign, step down | give up or retire from a position.; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal" |
| ~ resign, vacate, renounce, give up | leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily.; "She vacated the position when she got pregnant"; "The chairman resigned when he was found to have misappropriated funds" |
| ~ retire | go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position.; "He retired at age 68" |
| ~ top out | give up one's career just as one becomes very successful.; "The financial consultant topped out at age 40 because he was burned out" |
| ~ pull up stakes, depart, leave | remove oneself from an association with or participation in.; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes" |
| ~ fall | lose office or power.; "The government fell overnight"; "The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen" |
| v. (motion) | 2. depart, quit, take leave | go away or leave. |
| ~ walk out of | leave, usually as an expression of disapproval. |
| ~ congee | depart after obtaining formal permission.; "He has congeed with the King" |
| ~ beat a retreat | depart hastily. |
| ~ go forth, leave, go away | go away from a place.; "At what time does your train leave?"; "She didn't leave until midnight"; "The ship leaves at midnight" |
| ~ plump out | depart suddenly.; "He plumped out of the house" |
| ~ break camp, decamp | leave a camp.; "The hikers decamped before dawn" |
| v. (possession) | 3. foreswear, quit, relinquish, renounce | turn away from; give up.; "I am foreswearing women forever" |
| ~ disclaim | renounce a legal claim or title to. |
| ~ abandon, give up | give up with the intent of never claiming again.; "Abandon your life to God"; "She gave up her children to her ex-husband when she moved to Tahiti"; "We gave the drowning victim up for dead" |
| v. (competition) | 4. chuck up the sponge, drop by the wayside, drop out, fall by the wayside, give up, quit, throw in, throw in the towel | give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat.; "In the second round, the challenger gave up" |
| stop | | |
| n. (act) | 1. stop, stoppage | the act of stopping something.; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood" |
| ~ human action, human activity, act, deed | something that people do or cause to happen. |
| ~ stand-down, standdown | (military) a temporary stop of offensive military action. |
| ~ haemostasia, haemostasis, hemostasia, hemostasis | surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat). |
| n. (act) | 2. layover, stop, stopover | a brief stay in the course of a journey.; "they made a stopover to visit their friends" |
| ~ stay | continuing or remaining in a place or state.; "they had a nice stay in Paris"; "a lengthy hospital stay"; "a four-month stay in bankruptcy court" |
| ~ night-stop | a break in a journey for the night. |
| ~ pit stop | a brief stop at a pit during an automobile race to take on fuel or service the car. |
| ~ pit stop | a stop during an automobile trip for rest and refreshment. |
| ~ stand | a stop made by a touring musical or theatrical group to give a performance.; "a one-night stand" |
| n. (location) | 3. stop | a spot where something halts or pauses.; "his next stop is Atlanta" |
| ~ bus stop | a place on a bus route where buses stop to discharge and take on passengers. |
| ~ checkpoint | a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance. |
| ~ loading area, loading zone | a stop where carriers can be loaded and unloaded. |
| ~ stopover, way station | a stopping place on a journey.; "there is a stopover to change planes in Chicago" |
| ~ place, spot, topographic point | a point located with respect to surface features of some region.; "this is a nice place for a picnic"; "a bright spot on a planet" |
| n. (communication) | 4. occlusive, plosive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop, stop consonant | a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it.; "his stop consonants are too aspirated" |
| ~ obstruent | a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth. |
| ~ implosion | the initial occluded phase of a stop consonant. |
| ~ plosion, explosion | the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant. |
| ~ labial stop | a stop consonant that is produced with the lips. |
| ~ glottal catch, glottal plosive, glottal stop | a stop consonant articulated by releasing pressure at the glottis; as in the sudden onset of a vowel. |
| ~ suction stop, click | a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu). |
| n. (communication) | 5. full point, full stop, period, point, stop | 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" |
| ~ punctuation mark, punctuation | the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases. |
| ~ suspension point | (usually plural) one of a series of points indicating that something has been omitted or that the sentence is incomplete. |
| n. (artifact) | 6. stop | (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" |
| ~ knob | a round handle. |
| ~ pipe organ, organ | wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard. |
| ~ music | an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner. |
| n. (artifact) | 7. diaphragm, stop | a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens.; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically" |
| ~ camera, photographic camera | equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other). |
| ~ iris diaphragm, iris | diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening. |
| ~ mechanical device | mechanism consisting of a device that works on mechanical principles. |
| n. (artifact) | 8. catch, stop | a restraint that checks the motion of something.; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open" |
| ~ bench hook | any of various stops on a workbench against which work can be pushed (as while chiseling or planing). |
| ~ doorstop, doorstopper | a stop that keeps open doors from moving. |
| ~ detent, pawl, click, dog | a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward. |
| ~ constraint, restraint | a device that retards something's motion.; "the car did not have proper restraints fitted" |
| ~ tripper, trip | a catch mechanism that acts as a switch.; "the pressure activates the tripper and releases the water" |
| n. (artifact) | 9. block, blockage, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage | an obstruction in a pipe or tube.; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" |
| ~ breech closer, breechblock | a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firing. |
| ~ impedimenta, obstruction, impediment, obstructer, obstructor | any structure that makes progress difficult. |
| ~ plug, stopple, stopper | blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly. |
| ~ vapor lock, vapour lock | a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internal-combustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor). |
| v. (motion) | 10. stop, stop over | interrupt a trip.; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence" |
| ~ cut off, disrupt, interrupt, break up | make a break in.; "We interrupt the program for the following messages" |
| ~ call | make a stop in a harbour.; "The ship will call in Honolulu tomorrow" |
| ~ lay over, stop over | interrupt a journey temporarily, e.g., overnight.; "We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil" |
| v. (motion) | 11. stop | cause to stop.; "stop a car"; "stop the thief" |
| ~ check | arrest the motion (of something) abruptly.; "He checked the flow of water by shutting off the main valve" |
| ~ rein, rein in | stop or check by or as if by a pull at the reins.; "He reined in his horses in front of the post office" |
| ~ halt, arrest, hold | cause to stop.; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses" |
| ~ bring up | cause to come to a sudden stop.; "The noise brought her up in shock" |
| ~ cut | stop filming.; "cut a movie scene" |
| ~ flag down | signal to stop.; "Let's flag down a cab--it's starting to rain"; "The policeman flagged down our car" |
| ~ stop, halt | come to a halt, stop moving.; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" |
| ~ stall | cause an engine to stop.; "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car" |
| ~ stall | cause an airplane to go into a stall. |
| ~ draw up, pull up | cause (a vehicle) to stop.; "He pulled up the car in front of the hotel" |
| ~ brake | cause to stop by applying the brakes.; "brake the car before you go into a curve" |
| v. (competition) | 12. arrest, check, contain, hold back, stop, turn back | 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" |
| ~ cut down, cut out | intercept (a player). |
| ~ defend | be on the defensive; act against an attack. |
| v. (contact) | 13. intercept, stop | seize on its way.; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace" |
| ~ grab, take hold of, catch | take hold of so as to seize or restrain or stop the motion of.; "Catch the ball!"; "Grab the elevator door!" |
| ~ cut out, cut off | cut off and stop.; "The bicyclist was cut out by the van" |
| v. (contact) | 14. bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade, stop | render unsuitable for passage.; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" |
| ~ obturate, occlude, close up, impede, obstruct, jam, block | block passage through.; "obstruct the path" |
| ~ block off, close off, shut off | block off the passage through.; "We shut off the valve" |
| ~ close | bar access to.; "Due to the accident, the road had to be closed for several hours" |
| ~ obstruct, block | shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight.; "The thick curtain blocked the action on the stage"; "The trees obstruct my view of the mountains" |
| v. (change) | 15. hold on, stop | stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments.; "Hold on a moment!" |
| ~ break, interrupt | terminate.; "She interrupted her pregnancy"; "break a lucky streak"; "break the cycle of poverty" |
| terminate | | |
| v. (social) | 1. can, dismiss, displace, fire, force out, give notice, give the axe, give the sack, sack, send away, terminate | terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" |
| ~ retire | make (someone) retire.; "The director was retired after the scandal" |
| ~ pension off | let go from employment with an attractive pension.; "The director was pensioned off when he got senile" |
| ~ clean out | force out.; "The new boss cleaned out the lazy workers" |
| ~ furlough, lay off | dismiss, usually for economic reasons.; "She was laid off together with hundreds of other workers when the company downsized" |
| ~ squeeze out | force out.; "Some employees were squeezed out by the recent budget cuts" |
| ~ remove | remove from a position or an office. |
| ~ send away, send packing, dismiss, drop | stop associating with.; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock" |
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