stop vs arrest

stop and arrest both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stop	Yes	No	Yes	No
arrest	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, stop and arrest are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of stop include check, halt, hitch, stay, stoppage.

As verbs, stop and arrest are synonyms defined as:

stop and arrest: hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of

Other synonyms of stop include check, contain, hold back, turn back.

As verbs, arrest is a hyponym of stop; that is, arrest is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than stop:

Other hyponyms of stop include check, rein, rein in, halt, hold, bring up, cut, flag down, stall, stall, draw up, pull up, brake.

stop (noun)	arrest (noun)
the act of stopping something	the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
a brief stay in the course of a journey	the state of inactivity following an interruption
a restraint that checks the motion of something
an obstruction in a pipe or tube
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
the event of something ending
a spot where something halts or pauses
the state of inactivity following an interruption

stop (verb)	arrest (verb)
prevent completion	hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments	take into custody
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of	attract and fix
seize on its way	cause to come to an abrupt stop
render unsuitable for passage
come to a halt, stop moving
cause to end
interrupt a trip
stop from happening or developing
put an end to a state or an activity
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical