Stop : Verbe (word from latin stop, to remain "to stop", stay).
The verb “stop” has many meanings:
I) Transitive verb:
A. Avoid bymoving forward :
1. Avoid (someone or something)moving forward,all further ; suspend le movement, doing stay on place (immobilize, hold back).
Officers stop the crowd (contain, maintain).
Thief ! Stop him!
Stop a passerby to talk to them (approach, accost).
“I held my horse on its four feet and stopped it short” (Gautier).
Stop your car (stop).
Stop the ship by dropping anchor (anchor).
To suspend the operation of.
Stop a machine.
Stop the radio, we can't hear each other anymore! (switch off).
2. Interrupt or terminate (a activity, process).
Stop bleeding (quench, dry up).
To stop the course of something (intercept, interrupt).
Phrase: We can't stop it progress.
– Quote from the French-speaking Belgian poet, playwright and novelist Henry Bauchau (1913-2012): “You are there, Hémon. Eteocles and Polyneices are also alive. We must stop this madness, there is still time.”
Stop an action, a project.
Pet: Stop your circus! Stop your tank!
Literary: Do to cease (a sentiment, a inspired) (contain, curb, repress, retain).
“I have too often allowed my reason to stop the momentum of my heart” (Gide).
3. Avoid (someone) to act or continue an action (hinder, paralyze, delay, hold back, keep in check).
Nothing stops him when he sets out to do something.
Finding yourself stopped by a difficulty, an obstacle.
Specially: Prevent speaking (interrupt).
There, I'll stop you right now.
4. To apprehend, to hold prisoner.
The gendarmes arrested him at dawn (capture, seize -of-); put your hand to the collar, the grappling hook on someone).
He has just been arrested (caught; colloquial or popular: staple, spear, grab, chest, pick, pack, ship, pin, ram, harpoon, pinch, prick, fish, squeeze).
5. Colloquial: Interrupt (someone's) professional activity by stopping work.
The doctor stopped her (for) eight days.
B. Make fixed, stable:
1. Avoid (sth.) to move, to stir, to hold in place (to subject, to block, to fix, to maintain, to retain).
Stop a wheel using a shoe, a brake, a chain.
The pawl stops the wheel (jams).
Secure a stitch (while sewing): tie a knot so that the thread does not escape.
Stop the stitches of a piece of knitting (cast off).
2. Hold fixed. To stop his eyes, his gaze on something.
FIG. Stop your attention, your thoughts, your mind (attach, fix).
“If we focus our eyes on today’s world” (Chateaubriand).
3. To make one's choice, one's decision, one's decision on something (fix).
By extension: Fix by a choice.
Arrange the location, the day of a meeting (agree -to-, decide, determine, fix, settle).
Arrange a deal (conclude).
Literary: Stop doing something (decide, resolve).
Specially: Take a decree.
The minister, the prefect, the mayor orders that…
II) Intransitive verb:
1. Stopmoving forward, to stop.
Tell the driver to stop.
2. Stop talking or acting. Stop! Say no more.
He works constantly, he doesn't stop.
3. Stop (and the infinitive): stop.
Stop gesticulating.
Stop, please!
III) Pronominal verb: Stop:
1. Suspend your walk, do not go any further.
Stop along the way.
Pass without stopping.
Stop, get off, dismount to rest (Halt).
The car stopped at the red light (stop).
This train stops at all stations, it is an omnibus.
To stop for a long time in a place (to remain, to settle, to stay, to station).
“We stop, we sit down, we see the crowd go by” (Lamartine).
The road ends here (end).
Figurative meaning: Don't stop there! don't give up on a business that started so well.
(Thing subject) No longer working (mechanism).
My watch has stopped.
2. Process, action: Pause or end.
The noise stopped; familiar: It's good when it stops! or it feels good when it stops!
Stop flowing. The bleeding has stopped.
Person: Cease to act, to exercise an action (cease).
He doesn't want to stop.
Working without stopping (discontinuing; familiar: disbanding, unhitching, unhitching).
Quit smoking.
Especially: Stop talking. He stopped short.
3. To stare his attention on, take care, pay attention to. We must not stop at appearances, to details,.
Aged or literary meaning: To dwell, to insist (on) (to linger).
4. To stare his choice on.
He did not know what solution to stop at, what course to take.
Opposite of stopping: all, walk, move; accelerate, hasten; continue, resume.