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Verb (used with object)
Sports .
- to check (a stroke, blow, etc.); parry; ward off.
- to defeat (an opposing player or team)
- The Browns stopped the Colts.
- Boxing . to defeat by a knockout or technical knockout
- Louis stopped Conn in the 13th round.
Noun
Music .
- the act of closing a fingerhole or pressing a string of an instrument in order to produce a particular note.
- a device or contrivance, as on an instrument, for accomplishing this.
- (in an organ) a graduated set of pipes of the same kind and giving tones of the same quality.
- Also called stop knob. a knob or handle that is drawn out or pushed back to permit or prevent the sounding of such a set of pipes or to control some other part of the organ.
- (in a reed organ) a group of reeds functioning like a pipe-organ stop.
Sports . an individual defensive play or act that prevents an opponent or opposing team from scoring, advancing, or gaining an advantage, as a catch in baseball, a tackle in football, or the deflection of a shot in hockey.
Phonetics .
- an articulation that interrupts the flow of air from the lungs.
- a consonant sound characterized by stop articulation, as p, b, t, d, k, and g. Compare continuant .
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