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3 VERB If an activity or process stops , it is no longer happening. □ [V ] The rain had stopped and a star or two was visible over the mountains. □ [V ] The system overheated and filming had to stop.

4 VERB If something such as machine stops or is stopped , it is no longer moving or working. □ [V ] The clock had stopped at 2.12 a.m. □ [V n] Arnold stopped the engine and got out of the car.

5 VERB When a moving person or vehicle stops or is stopped , they no longer move and they remain in the same place. □ [V ] The car failed to stop at an army checkpoint. □ [V ] He stopped and let her catch up with him. □ [V n] The event literally stopped the traffic.

6 N‑SING If something that is moving comes to a stop or is brought to a stop , it slows down and no longer moves. □  People often wrongly open doors before the train has come to a stop. □  He slowed the car almost to a stop.

7 VERB If someone does not stop to think or to explain, they continue with what they are doing without taking any time to think about or explain it. □ [V to-inf] She doesn't stop to think about what she's saying. □ [V to-inf] There is something rather strange about all this if one stops to consider it. □ [V ] People who lead busy lives have no time to stop and reflect.

8 VERB If you say that a quality or state stops somewhere, you mean that it exists or is true up to that point, but no further. □ [V adv] The cafe owner has put up 'no smoking' signs, but thinks his responsibility stops there.

9 N‑COUNT A stop is a place where buses or trains regularly stop so that people can get on and off. □  They waited at a bus stop.

10 VERB If you stop somewhere on a journey, you stay there for a short while. □ [V prep/adv] He insisted we stop at a small restaurant just outside of Atlanta.

11 N‑COUNT A stop is a time or place at which you stop during a journey. □  The last stop in Mr Cook's lengthy tour was Paris.

12 N‑COUNT [usu pl] In music, organ stops are the knobs at the side of the organ, which you pull or push in order to control the type of sound that comes out of the pipes.

13 PHRASE If you say that someone will stop at nothing to get something, you are emphasizing that they are willing to do things that are extreme, wrong, or dangerous in order to get it. [EMPHASIS ] □  Their motive is money, and they will stop at nothing to get it.

14 PHRASE If you pull out all the stops , you do everything you can to make something happen or succeed. □  New Zealand police vowed yesterday to pull out all the stops to find the killer.

15 PHRASE If you put a stop to something that you do not like or approve of, you prevent it from happening or continuing. □  His daughter should have stood up and put a stop to all these rumours.

16 PHRASE If you say that someone does not know when to stop , you mean that they do not control their own behaviour very well and so they often annoy or upset other people. □  Like many politicians before him, Mr Bentley did not know when to stop.

17to stop dead → see dead

18to stop short of → see short ➊

19to stop someone in their tracks → see track

▸  stop by PHRASAL VERB If you stop by somewhere, you make a short visit to a person or place. [INFORMAL ] □ [V P n] Perhaps I'll stop by the hospital. □ [V P ] I'll stop by to see Leigh before going home.

▸  stop off PHRASAL VERB If you stop off somewhere, you stop for a short time in the middle of a journey. □ [V P ] She stopped off in Poland on her way to Munich.