a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
"his stop consonants are too aspirated"
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"
(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"
A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
"The old dairyman used his stop to carry fresh milk from the cow to the churn."
A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
In plain English: A stop is a place where you pause your journey, like a bus station or a traffic light that makes cars wait.
"He decided to take a stop for coffee during their long drive."
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"
To cease moving.
"The dog trotted across the yard and finally stopped at the bottom of the stairs."
In plain English: To stop means to bring something to an end or make it cease moving.
"Please stop talking so we can hear the teacher."
Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
"After years of searching at the Large Hadron Collider, physicists finally narrowed their focus on stop production as the most promising way to detect the elusive squark superpartner of the top quark."
In plain English: Stop means something that is not moving or has been made to stay still.
"The stop sign at the corner is faded and hard to see."
Usage: Use stop as an adjective specifically when describing particles in supersymmetry theory, such as a stop squark. Do not use this term outside of high-energy physics contexts where it refers to the heavy partner of the top quark.
Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
"The operator signaled the end of the urgent message by tapping out three dots after the final word, marking where the stop goes on the telegram."
The word "stop" comes from the Old English verb stoppian, which originally meant to close or block something. Its roots trace back to Proto-Indo-European terms for pushing, sticking, or striking, reflecting a long history of describing physical obstruction.