Stop vs. Ban — What's the Difference?

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

To prohibit (an action) or forbid the use of (something), especially by official decree

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

To refuse to allow (someone) to do something, go somewhere, or be a participant; exclude

Block or close up (a hole or leak)

South African Under the former system of apartheid, to deprive (a person suspected of illegal activity) of the right of free movement and association with others.

Be or behave in a particular way

(Archaic) To curse.

A cessation of movement or operation

A prohibition imposed by law or official decree

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

An excommunication or condemnation by church officials.

The effective diameter of a lens.

Censure, condemnation, or disapproval expressed especially by public opinion.

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

A summons to arms in feudal times.

To constrict (an opening or orifice)

(Archaic) A curse; an imprecation.

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

A unit of currency equal to 1/100 of the primary unit of currency in Romania and Moldova.

To prevent the flow or passage of

To summon; to call out.

To halt the motion or progress of

(transitive) To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.

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

(transitive) To curse; to execrate.

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

(transitive) To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.

To cause to desist or to change a course of action

(ambitransitive) To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.

To prevent or restrain

Prohibition.

To discontinue or cease

A public proclamation or edict; a summons by public proclamation. Chiefly, in early use, a summons to arms.

To defeat (an opponent or opposing team).

The gathering of the (French) king's vassals for war; the whole body of vassals so assembled, or liable to be summoned; originally, the same as arrière-ban: in the 16th c., French usage created a distinction between ban and arrière-ban, for which see the latter word.

To defeat in boxing by a knockout or technical knockout.

(obsolete) A curse or anathema.

To order a bank to withhold payment of

A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.

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

A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.

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

A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.

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

A unit measuring information or entropy based on base-ten logarithms, rather than the base-two logarithms that define the bit.

To put an end to what one is doing; cease

A title used in several states in central and south-eastern Europe between the 7th century and the 20th century.

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

A kind of fine muslin, made in the East Indies from the fiber of the banana leaf stalks.

The act of stopping or the condition of being stopped

A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.

A halt or stay, as on a trip

A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.

A place at which someone or something stops

Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).

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

An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription.

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

A curse or anathema.

A stop order.

A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.

A part in a mechanism that stops or regulates movement.

An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.

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

To curse; to invoke evil upon.

A mark of punctuation, especially a period.

To forbid; to interdict.

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

To curse; to swear.

A fret on a stringed instrument.

A decree that prohibits something

A hole on a wind instrument.

100 bani equal 1 leu

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

100 bani equal 1 leu

A tuned set of pipes, as in an organ.

An official prohibition or edict against something

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

A bachelor's degree in nursing

(Nautical) A line used for securing something temporarily

Prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure;

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

Forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)

A plosive.

Ban from a place of residence, as for punishment

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

Expel from a community or group

(Sports) A save made by a goalie.

(Games) A stopper.

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

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

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

(intransitive) To cease moving.

(intransitive) Not to continue.

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

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

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

(transitive) To close or block an opening.

To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.

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

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

(obsolete) To punctuate.

(nautical) To make fast; to stopper.

To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.

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

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

An action of stopping; interruption of travel.

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

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;