A rank of jacks or a device producing a peculiar tone quality or alteration of the sound Examples are: eight foot stop, machine stop, buff 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"
That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction
An order to buy at the market only when the market moves up to a specific price, or to sell at the market only when the market moves down to a specific price
A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon
Button at end of Netscape's Tool Button Bar Use to stop downloading of a document For more information see "Netscape Basics "
If you say that a quality or state stops somewhere, you mean that it exists or is true up to that point, but no further. The cafe owner has put up the required `no smoking' signs, but thinks his responsibility stops there = end
A label given to a PushButton in some DialogBoxes that performs the action of stopping the work in progress indicated by the DialogBox
When a moving person or vehicle stops or is stopped, they no longer move and they remain in the same place. The car failed to stop at an army checkpoint He stopped and let her catch up with him The event literally stopped the traffic = halt