stops

n a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card n the event of something ending n the act of stopping something n a brief stay in the course of a journey n the state of inactivity following an interruption n a spot where something halts or pauses n a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it n a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations n (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes n a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens n a restraint that checks the motion of something n an obstruction in a pipe or tube v come to a halt, stop moving v put an end to a state or an activity v stop from happening or developing v interrupt a trip v cause to stop v prevent completion v hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of v seize on its way v have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical v render unsuitable for passage v stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments