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Stop-gap	That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.	n.

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Stop	To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.	v. t.
Stop	To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.	v. t.
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.	v. t.
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.	v. t.
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.	v. t.
Stop	To point, as a composition; to punctuate.	v. t.
Stop	To make fast; to stopper.	v. t.
Stop	To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.	v. i.
Stop	To cease from any motion, or course of action.	v. i.
Stop	To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.	v. i.
Stop	The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.	n.
Stop	That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction.	n.
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.	n.
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.	n.
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.	n.
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.	n.
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.	n.
Stop	The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.	n.
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.	n.
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.	n.