the act of stopping something | depression of a button on a computer mouse |
a brief stay in the course of a journey | a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward |
a restraint that checks the motion of something | a stop consonant made by the suction of air into the mouth (as in Bantu) |
an obstruction in a pipe or tube | a short light metallic sound |
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 | |