Stop vs. Stuck

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

Past tense and past participle of stick.

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

Unable to move.

block or close up (a hole or leak)

Unable to progress with a task.

be or behave in a particular way

No longer functioning, frozen up, frozen.

a cessation of movement or operation

In the situation of having no money.

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

(obsolete) A thrust.

the effective diameter of a lens.

A thrust.

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

caught or fixed;

To constrict (an opening or orifice)

baffled;

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

To prevent the flow or passage of

To halt the motion or progress of

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

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

To cause to desist or to change a course of action

To prevent or restrain

To discontinue or cease

To defeat (an opponent or opposing team).

To defeat in boxing by a knockout or technical knockout.

To order a bank to withhold payment of

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

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

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

To put an end to what one is doing; cease

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

The act of stopping or the condition of being stopped

A halt or stay, as on a trip

A place at which someone or something stops

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

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

A stop order.

A part in a mechanism that stops or regulates movement.

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

A mark of punctuation, especially a period.

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

A fret on a stringed instrument.

A hole on a wind instrument.

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

A tuned set of pipes, as in an organ.

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

(Nautical) A line used for securing something temporarily

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

A plosive.

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

(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;