Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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stop | Yes | No | Yes | No |
quit | No | No | Yes | No |
stop (noun) | quit (noun) |
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the act of stopping something | |
a brief stay in the course of a journey | |
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) | quit (verb) |
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prevent completion | give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat |
stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments | go away or leave |
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | turn away from; give up |
seize on its way | give up or retire from a position |
render unsuitable for passage | put an end to a state or an activity |
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 |