stop > define

noun

• The event of something ending.
  • usage: "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
  • synonyms: halt
• The act of stopping something.
  • usage: "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
  • synonyms: stoppage
• A brief stay in the course of a journey.
  • usage: "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
  • synonyms: stopover, layover
• The state of inactivity following an interruption.
  • usage: "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat"
  • synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stoppage
• A spot where something halts or pauses.
  • usage: "his next stop is Atlanta"
• A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it.
  • usage: "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
  • synonyms: stop consonant, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive
• A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations.
  • usage: "in England they call a period a stop"
  • synonyms: period, point, full stop, full point
• Music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes. (
  • usage: "the organist pulled out all the stops"
• A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens.
  • usage: "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"
  • synonyms: diaphragm
• A restraint that checks the motion of something.
  • usage: "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open"
  • synonyms: catch
• An obstruction in a pipe or tube.
  • usage: "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
  • synonyms: blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stoppage

verb

• Come to a halt, stop moving.
  • usage: "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
  • synonyms: halt
• Put an end to a state or an activity.
  • usage: "Quit teasing your little brother"
  • synonyms: discontinue, cease, give up, quit, lay off
• Stop from happening or developing.
  • usage: "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
  • synonyms: halt, block, kibosh
• Interrupt a trip.
  • usage: "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"
  • synonyms: stop over
• Cause to stop.
  • usage: "stop a car"; "stop the thief"
• Prevent completion.
  • usage: "stop the project"; "break off the negotiations"
  • synonyms: break, break off, discontinue
• Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of.
  • usage: "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
  • synonyms: check, turn back, arrest, contain, hold back
• Seize on its way.
  • usage: "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"
  • synonyms: intercept
• Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.
  • usage: "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"
  • synonyms: end, finish, terminate, cease
• Render unsuitable for passage.
  • usage: "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
  • synonyms: barricade, block, blockade, block off, block up, bar
• Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments.
  • usage: "Hold on a moment"
  • synonyms: hold on

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

Stop is an order than becomes market executable when a stated level is hit or crossed. Sell stops become market activated when the market declines to the stated stop price or lower. Then the order requires the instrument to be sold at prevailing market prices. Buy stops become market activated when the market advances to the stated stop price or higher. Then this order requires the instrument to be purchased at the prevailing market prices. A variation of the Limit Order is the Stop Limit Order.