vapor lock vs stop

stop vs vapor lock

vapor lock and stop both are nouns.

vapor lock is not a verb while stop is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
vapor lock	Yes	No	No	No
stop	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, stop is a hypernym of vapor lock; that is, stop is a word with a broader meaning than vapor lock:

vapor lock: a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internal-combustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor)
stop: an obstruction in a pipe or tube

Other hypernyms of vapor lock include block, blockage, closure, occlusion, stoppage.

vapor lock (noun)	stop (noun)
a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internal-combustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor)	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

vapor lock (verb)	stop (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

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