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Alt vs. Stop — What's the Difference?

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Alt

Pitched in the first octave above the treble staff; high.

Stop

(of an event, action, or process) come to an end; cease to happen
His laughter stopped as quickly as it had begun
The rain had stopped and the clouds had cleared

Alt

Espousing or reflecting values different from those of the establishment or of mainstream culture. Often used in combination
Alt-rock music.
An alt-weekly newspaper.

Stop

Cause (an action, process, or event) to come to an end
This harassment has got to be stopped

Alt

Existing outside traditional or established institutions or systems. Often used in combination
Alt-fuels.
An alt-lifestyle.
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Stop

Block or close up (a hole or leak)
The stile has been stopped up
He tried to stop the hole with the heel of his boot

Alt

The first octave above the treble staff.

Stop

Be or behave in a particular way
‘Why was she so?’ ‘I don't know, you know how dem old people stop.’

Alt

A note or tone in the alt octave.

Stop

A cessation of movement or operation
There were constant stops and changes of pace
All business came to a stop

Alt

The Alt key.

Stop

A set of organ pipes of a particular tone and range of pitch.

Alt

(music) High pitch, of a voice or instrument; especially, the octave above the top line of the treble stave.

Stop

The effective diameter of a lens.

Alt

A state of excitement, a heightened emotional condition.

Stop

To close (an opening or hole) by covering, filling in, or plugging up
The tea leaves stopped the drain.

Alt

Clipping of altitude

Stop

To constrict (an opening or orifice)
My nose is stopped up.

Alt

An alternate or secondary character.

Stop

To obstruct or block passage on (a road, for example).

Alt

(Internet slang) An alternate account.

Stop

To prevent the flow or passage of
Stop supplies from getting through.

Alt

(finance) An alternative investment or alternative fund.
Liquid alts

Stop

To halt the motion or progress of
Stopped me and asked directions.

Alt

Synonym of altbier

Stop

To block or deflect (a blow, for example); parry or ward off.

Alt

Clipping of alternate

Stop

To be or get in the way of (a bullet or other missile); be killed or wounded by.

Alt

Clipping of alternativeespecially as a cultural phenomenon seen as being outside the mainstream of its genre.
Alt medicine

Stop

To cause to desist or to change a course of action
The rain stopped us from continuing the argument.

Alt

The higher part of the scale. See Alto.

Stop

To prevent or restrain
An invitation to dinner stopped him from going to the movies.

Alt

Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

Stop

To discontinue or cease
He stopped his complaining.

Stop

To defeat (an opponent or opposing team).

Stop

To defeat in boxing by a knockout or technical knockout.

Stop

To order a bank to withhold payment of
Stopped the check.

Stop

To press down (a string on a stringed instrument) on the fingerboard to produce a desired pitch.

Stop

To close (a hole on a wind instrument) with the finger in sounding a desired pitch.

Stop

To cease moving, progressing, acting, or operating; come to a halt
The clock stopped in the night.

Stop

To put an end to what one is doing; cease
Had to stop at an exciting place in the book.

Stop

To interrupt one's course or journey for a brief visit or stay. Often used with by, in, or off
Stop by at a friend's house.
Stop in at the office.
Stop off at the gas station.

Stop

The act of stopping or the condition of being stopped
Can't you put a stop to all this ruckus? Production is at a stop.

Stop

A halt or stay, as on a trip
We made a stop in Austin.

Stop

A place at which someone or something stops
A regular stop on my delivery route.
A bus stop.

Stop

A device or means that obstructs, blocks, or plugs up.

Stop

An order given to a bank to withhold payment on a check.

Stop

A stop order.

Stop

A part in a mechanism that stops or regulates movement.

Stop

The effective aperture of a lens, controlled by a diaphragm.

Stop

A mark of punctuation, especially a period.

Stop

The act of stopping a string or hole on an instrument.

Stop

A fret on a stringed instrument.

Stop

A hole on a wind instrument.

Stop

A device such as a key for closing the hole on a wind instrument.

Stop

A tuned set of pipes, as in an organ.

Stop

A knob, key, or pull that regulates such a set of pipes.

Stop

(Nautical) A line used for securing something temporarily
A sail stop.

Stop

(Linguistics) One of a set of speech sounds that is a plosive or a nasal.

Stop

A plosive.

Stop

The depression between the muzzle and top of the skull of an animal, especially a dog.

Stop

(Sports) A save made by a goalie.

Stop

(Games) A stopper.

Stop

(Architecture) A projecting stone, often carved, at the end of a molding.

Stop

A control mechanism on an audio or video player that causes a recording to stop playing.

Stop

Of, relating to, or being of use at the end of an operation or activity
A stop code.

Stop

(intransitive) To cease moving.
I stopped at the traffic lights.

Stop

(intransitive) Not to continue.
The riots stopped when police moved in.
Soon the rain will stop.

Stop

(transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.
This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him.

Stop

(transitive) To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
One of the wrestlers suddenly stopped fighting.
Please stop telling me those terrible jokes.

Stop

(transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
The referees stopped the fight.

Stop

(transitive) To close or block an opening.
He stopped the wound with gauze.

Stop

To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.

Stop

(intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
To stop with a friend
He stopped for two weeks at the inn.
He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.

Stop

(music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.

Stop

(obsolete) To punctuate.

Stop

(nautical) To make fast; to stopper.

Stop

To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.

Stop

To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.

Stop

A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
Related terms: halt, station.
They agreed to meet at the bus stop.

Stop

An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
That stop was not planned.

Stop

That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.

Stop

A device intended to block the path of a moving object
Door stop

Stop

(engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.

Stop

(architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.

Stop

(linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.

Stop

A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.

Stop

(music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.

Stop

(music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.

Stop

(tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.

Stop

(football) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal

Stop

(zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.

Stop

(photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.

Stop

(photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.

Stop

(photography) An f-stop.

Stop

The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.

Stop

(fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.

Stop

A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.

Stop

(physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

Stop

To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

Stop

To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.

Stop

To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.

Stop

To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.
Whose disposition all the world well knowsWill not be rubbed nor stopped.

Stop

To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.

Stop

To point, as a composition; to punctuate.
If his sentences were properly stopped.

Stop

To make fast; to stopper.

Stop

To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.
He bites his lip, and starts;Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground;Then lays his finger on his temple: straitSprings out into fast gait; then stops again.

Stop

To cease from any motion, or course of action.
Stop, while ye may, suspend your mad career!

Stop

To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.
By stopping at home till the money was gone.

Stop

The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.
It is doubtful . . . whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection.
Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy.
It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them.

Stop

That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.
A fatal stop traversed their headlong course.
So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.

Stop

A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.

Stop

The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.
The organ sound a time survives the stop.

Stop

In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.

Stop

A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.

Stop

A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.

Stop

The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.

Stop

The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.

Stop

Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed.

Stop

The event of something ending;
It came to a stop at the bottom of the hill

Stop

The act of stopping something;
The third baseman made some remarkable stops
His stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood

Stop

A brief stay in the course of a journey;
They made a stopover to visit their friends

Stop

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

Stop

A spot where something halts or pauses;
His next stop is Atlanta

Stop

A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it;
His stop consonants are too aspirated

Stop

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

Stop

(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

Stop

A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens;
The new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically

Stop

A restraint that checks the motion of something;
He used a book as a stop to hold the door open

Stop

An obstruction in a pipe or tube;
We had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe

Stop

Come to a halt, stop moving;
The car stopped
She stopped in front of a store window

Stop

Put an end to a state or an activity;
Quit teasing your little brother

Stop

Stop from happening or developing;
Block his election
Halt the process

Stop

Interrupt a trip;
We stopped at Aunt Mary's house
They stopped for three days in Florence

Stop

Cause to stop;
Stop a car
Stop the thief

Stop

Prevent completion;
Stop the project
Break off the negociations

Stop

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 Sout East Asia
Contain the rebel movement
Turn back the tide of communism

Stop

Seize on its way;
The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace

Stop

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

Stop

Render unsuitable for passage;
Block the way
Barricade the streets
Stop the busy road

Stop

Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;
Hold on a moment!

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