What does stop mean?

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[n] the event of something ending(it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill)[v] come to a halt, stop moving(the car stopped She stopped in front of a store window)[n] the act of stopping something(the third baseman made some remarkable stops his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood)[

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stop - The Free Dictionary

[n] the event of something ending
(it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill)

[v] come to a halt, stop moving
(the car stopped She stopped in front of a store window)

[n] the act of stopping something
(the third baseman made some remarkable stops his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood)

[v] put an end to a state or an activity
(Quit teasing your little brother)

[n] a brief stay in the course of a journey
(they made a stopover to visit their friends)

[v] stop from happening or developing
(Block his election Halt the process)

[n] the state of inactivity following an interruption
(the negotiations were in arrest held them in check during the halt he got some lunch the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow he spent the entire stop in his seat)

[v] interrupt a trip
(we stopped at Aunt Mary's house they stopped for three days in Florence)

[n] a spot where something halts or pauses
(his next stop is Atlanta)

[v] cause to stop
(stop a car stop the thief)

[n] a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
(his stop consonants are too aspirated)

[v] prevent completion
(stop the project break off the negotiations)

[n] a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
(in England they call a period a stop)

[v] hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
(Arrest the downward trend Check the growth of communism in South East Asia Contain the rebel movement Turn back the tide of communism)

[n] (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
(the organist pulled out all the stops)

[v] seize on its way
(The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace)

[n] a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
(the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically)

[v] have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
(the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other My property ends by the bushes The symphony ends in a pianissimo)

[n] a restraint that checks the motion of something
(he used a book as a stop to hold the door open)

[v] render unsuitable for passage
(block the way barricade the streets stop the busy road)

[n] an obstruction in a pipe or tube
(we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe)

[v] stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
(Hold on a moment!)

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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.