stop vs tie-up

stop and tie-up both are nouns.

stop is a verb but tie-up is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stop	Yes	No	Yes	No
tie-up	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tie-up is a hyponym of stop; that is, tie-up is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than stop:

stop: the event of something ending
tie-up: an interruption of normal activity

Other hyponyms of stop include cessation, surcease, stand, standstill.

stop (noun)	tie-up (noun)
the act of stopping something	an interruption of normal activity
a brief stay in the course of a journey	a social or business relationship
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)	tie-up (verb)
prevent completion
stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
seize on its way
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

Difference between stop and tie-up

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