Freeze vs. Stop

To pass from the liquid to the solid state by loss of heat.

(of an event, action, or process) come to an end; cease to happen

To acquire a surface or coat of ice from cold

cause (an action, process, or event) to come to an end

To become clogged or jammed because of the formation of ice

block or close up (a hole or leak)

To be at that degree of temperature at which ice forms

be or behave in a particular way

To be killed or harmed by cold or frost

a cessation of movement or operation

To be or feel uncomfortably cold

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

To become fixed, stuck, or attached by or as if by frost

the effective diameter of a lens.

To stop functioning properly, usually temporarily

To close (an opening or hole) by covering, filling in, or plugging up

To become motionless or immobile, as from surprise or attentiveness

To constrict (an opening or orifice)

To become unable to act or speak, as from fear

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

To become rigid and inflexible; solidify

To prevent the flow or passage of

To convert into ice.

To halt the motion or progress of

To cause ice to form upon.

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

To cause to congeal or stiffen from extreme cold

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

To preserve (foods, for example) by subjecting to freezing temperatures.

To cause to desist or to change a course of action

To damage, kill, or make inoperative by cold or by the formation of ice.

To prevent or restrain

To make very cold; chill.

To discontinue or cease

To immobilize, as with fear or shock.

To defeat (an opponent or opposing team).

To chill with an icy or formal manner

To defeat in boxing by a knockout or technical knockout.

To stop the motion or progress of

To order a bank to withhold payment of

To fix (prices or wages, for example) at a given or current level.

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

To prohibit further manufacture or use of.

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

To prevent or restrict the exchange, withdrawal, liquidation, or granting of by governmental action

To cease moving, progressing, acting, or operating; come to a halt

To anesthetize by chilling.

To put an end to what one is doing; cease

(Sports) To keep possession of (a ball or puck) so as to deny an opponent the opportunity to score.

To interrupt one's course or journey for a brief visit or stay. Often used with by, in, or off

The act of freezing.

The act of stopping or the condition of being stopped

The state of being frozen.

A halt or stay, as on a trip

A spell of cold weather; a frost.

A place at which someone or something stops

A restriction that forbids a quantity from rising above a given or current level

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

Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

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

(transitive) To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard.

A stop order.

(intransitive) To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice.

A part in a mechanism that stops or regulates movement.

To be affected by extreme cold.

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

(intransitive) (of machines and software) To come to a sudden halt, stop working (functioning).

A mark of punctuation, especially a period.

(intransitive) (of people and other animals) To stop (become motionless) or be stopped due to attentiveness, fear, surprise, etc.

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

(transitive) To cause someone to become motionless.

A fret on a stringed instrument.

(figuratively) To lose or cause to lose warmth of feeling; to shut out; to ostracize.

A hole on a wind instrument.

To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

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

(transitive) To prevent the movement or liquidation of a person's financial assets

A tuned set of pipes, as in an organ.

Of prices, spending etc., to keep at the same level, without any increase.

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

(Internet) To prevent from showing any visible change.

(Nautical) A line used for securing something temporarily

A period of intensely cold weather.

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

A halt of a regular operation.

A plosive.

(computer) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.

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

(curling) A precise draw weight shot where a delivered stone comes to a stand-still against a stationary stone, making it nearly impossible to knock out.

(Sports) A save made by a goalie.

A block on pay rises or on the hiring of new employees etc.

(Games) A stopper.

A frieze.

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

The act of congealing, or the state of being congealed.

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

To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a like solid body.

Of, relating to, or being of use at the end of an operation or activity

To become chilled with cold, or as with cold; to suffer loss of animation or life by lack of heat; as, the blood freezes in the veins.

(intransitive) To cease moving.

To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.

(intransitive) Not to continue.

To cause loss of animation or life in, from lack of heat; to give the sensation of cold to; to chill.

(transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.

the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid

(transitive) To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).

weather cold enough to cause freezing

(transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.

an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement;

(transitive) To close or block an opening.

fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level;

To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.

change to ice;

(intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.

stop moving or become immobilized;

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

be cold;

(obsolete) To punctuate.

cause to freeze;

(nautical) To make fast; to stopper.

stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it;

To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.

be very cold, below the freezing point;

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

change from a liquid to a solid when cold;

A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.

prohibit the conversion or use of (assets);

An action of stopping; interruption of travel.

anesthetize by cold

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

suddenly behave coldly and formally;

A device intended to block the path of a moving object

(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.

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

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

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

(music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.

(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.

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

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

(zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.

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

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

(photography) An f-stop.

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

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

A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

To point, as a composition; to punctuate.

To make fast; to stopper.

To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.

To cease from any motion, or course of action.

To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.

The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

the event of something ending;

the act of stopping something;

a brief stay in the course of a journey;

the state of inactivity following an interruption;

a spot where something halts or pauses;

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;

(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes;

a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens;

a restraint that checks the motion of something;

an obstruction in a pipe or tube;

come to a halt, stop moving;

put an end to a state or an activity;

stop from happening or developing;

interrupt a trip;

cause to stop;

prevent completion;

hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of;

seize on its way;

have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;

render unsuitable for passage;

stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;