different between stop vs refrain
stop
Translingual
Etymology
From English full stop
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?st?p]
Noun
stop
- Code word for a full stop in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet
References
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: st?p, IPA(key): /st?p/
- (General American) enPR: stäp, IPA(key): /st?p/
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English stoppen, stoppien, from Old English stoppian (“to stop, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *stupp?n, from Proto-Germanic *stupp?n? (“to stop, close”), *stuppijan? (“to push, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, *(s)tewb- (“to push; stick”), from *(s)tew- (“to bump; impact; butt; push; beat; strike; hit”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian stopje (“to stop, block”), West Frisian stopje (“to stop”), Dutch stoppen (“to stop”), Low German stoppen (“to stop”), German stopfen (“to be filling, stuff”), German stoppen (“to stop”), Danish stoppe (“to stop”), Swedish stoppa (“to stop”), Icelandic stoppa (“to stop”), Middle High German stupfen, stüpfen (“to pierce”). More at stuff, stump.
Alternate etymology derives Proto-Germanic *stupp?n? from an assumed Vulgar Latin *st?p?re, *stupp?re (“to stop up with tow”), from st?pa, st?pa, stuppa (“tow, flax, oakum”), from Ancient Greek ????? (stúp?), ?????? (stúpp?, “tow, flax, oakum”). This derivation, however, is doubtful, as the earliest instances of the Germanic verb do not carry the meaning of "stuff, stop with tow". Rather, these senses developed later in response to influence from similar sounding words in Latin and Romance.
Verb
stop (third-person singular simple present stops, present participle stopping, simple past and past participle stopped)
- (intransitive) To cease moving.
- (intransitive) To not continue.
- (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
- (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
- (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
- (transitive) To close or block an opening.
- (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
- (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- 1887, R. D. Blackmore, Springhaven
- by stopping at home till the money was gone
- 1931, E. F. Benson, Mapp & Lucia, chapter 7
- She’s not going away. She’s going to stop here forever.
- 1887, R. D. Blackmore, Springhaven
- (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
- (obsolete) To punctuate.
- if his sentences were properly stopped
- (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
- (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
- th-stopping
Conjugation
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) to indicate the ending action, or the to infinitive to indicate the purpose of the interruption. See Appendix:English catenative verbs for more information.
Synonyms
- (to cease moving): brake, desist, halt; See also Thesaurus:stop
- (to not continue): blin, cease, desist, discontinue, halt, terminate; See also Thesaurus:desist
- (to cause to cease moving): arrest, freeze, halt; See also Thesaurus:immobilize
- (to cause to come to an end): blin, cancel, cease, discontinue, halt, terminate; See also Thesaurus:end
- (to tarry): hang about, hang around, linger, loiter, pause; See also Thesaurus:tarry
- (to reside temporarily): lodge, stop over; See also Thesaurus:sojourn
Antonyms
- (to cease moving): continue, go, move, proceed
- (to not continue): continue, proceed
- (to cause to cease moving): continue, move
- (to cause to come to an end): continue, move
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- the buck stops here
Descendants
- ? Finnish: stop
- ? French: stop
- ? Hungarian: stop
- ? Irish: stop
- ? Italian: stop
- ? Latvian: stop
- ? Polish: stop
- ? Portuguese: stop
- ? Russian: ???? (stop)
- ? Spanish: stop
- ? Welsh: stopio
Translations
Noun
stop (plural stops)
- A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
- Related terms: halt, station.
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year
- It is […] doubtful […] whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection.
- Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy.
- It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- A fatal stop trauerst their headlong course
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Advantages of conversing with good Men
- So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object
- (engineering) 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.
- (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
- (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
- Synonyms: plosive, occlusive
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
- (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
- (music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
- (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
- (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
- (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
- (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
- (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
- (photography) An f-stop.
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
- (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
Derived terms
Translations
References
Punctuation mark
stop
- Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English stoppe, from Old English stoppa (“bucket, pail, a stop”), from Proto-Germanic *stuppô (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teub- (“to push, hit; stick, stump”). Cognate with Norwegian stopp, stoppa (“deep well, recess”), Middle High German stubech, stübich (“barrel, vat, unit of measure”) (German Stübchen). Related also to Middle Low German st?p (“beaker, flask”), Middle High German stouf (“beaker, flask”), Norwegian staupa (“goblet”), Icelandic staupa (“shot-glass”), Old English st?ap (“a stoup, beaker, drinking vessel, cup, flagon”). Cognate to Albanian shtambë (“amphora, bucket”). See stoup.
Noun
stop (plural stops)
- (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
Translations
Etymology 3
s- +? top
Adjective
stop (not comparable)
- (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
Anagrams
- OTPs, POST, POTS, PTOs, Post, Spot, TPOs, opts, post, post-, post., pots, spot, tops
Danish
Verb
stop
- imperative of stoppe
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?p/
- Hyphenation: stop
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch stoppe.
Noun
stop m (plural stoppen, diminutive stopje n)
- An action of stopping, cessation.
- A plug for a sink, a stopper.
- An electric fuse.
- Synonyms: smeltstop, zekering
Derived terms
- smeltstop
- stopcontact
- stoppenkast
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
stop
- first-person singular present indicative of stoppen
- imperative of stoppen
Anagrams
- post
- spot
Finnish
Interjection
stop
- stop (halt)
- stop (end-of-sentence indicator in telegrams)
Synonyms
- (halt): seis
French
Etymology
1792. Borrowed from English stop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?p/
Interjection
stop!
- stop!
Noun
stop m (uncountable)
- stop sign
- hitchhiking
Derived terms
- auto-stop
- stop américain
- stop-motion
- stopper
Descendants
- ? Moroccan Arabic: ?????
Further reading
- “stop” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- pots, spot
Hungarian
Etymology
Borrowed from English stop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??top?], [??top]
- Rhymes: -op?, -op
Interjection
stop
- halt! stop!
Punctuation
stop
- stop (used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram)
Noun
stop (plural stopok)
- (colloquial) stop sign (a red sign on the side of a street instructing vehicles to stop)
- (colloquial) hitchhike (an act of hitchhiking, trying to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road)
Declension
Derived terms
- stopfürd?
- stoptábla
Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from English stop, from Middle English stoppen, from Old English stoppian (“to stop, close”), from Proto-Germanic *stupp?n? (“to stop, close”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?t???p?/
Verb
stop (present analytic stopann, future analytic stopfaidh, verbal noun stopadh, past participle stoptha)
- to stop
Conjugation
Synonyms
- stad
Noun
stop m (genitive singular stop, nominative plural stopanna)
- a stop (place to get on and off line buses or trams; interruption of travel; device to block path)
Declension
Synonyms
- stad
Further reading
- Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “stopaid”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- "stop" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English stop.
Interjection
stop!
- stop!, halt!
Noun
stop m (plural stop)
- stop (roadsign; bus stop etc; block)
Anagrams
- post
- spot
Latvian
Etymology
Borrowed from English stop.
Interjection
stop!
- stop!, halt!
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?p/
Etymology 1
Deverbal of stopi?.
Noun
stop m inan
- (chemistry) an alloy; a mixture of metals.
Declension
Synonyms
- alia? (obsolete)
Verb
stop
- second-person singular imperative of stopi?
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English stop.
Interjection
stop
- stop!, halt!
Noun
stop m inan
- a stop sign.
- (colloquial) a vehicle's brake light.
- (colloquial) hitchhiking.
Further reading
- stop in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
- stop in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English stop.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /?st?p/, /?st?.pi/
Noun
stop m (plural stops)
- stop (function or button that causes a device to stop operating)
- (uncountable) A game in which the players write on paper one word from each category (animal, fruit, etc.), all beginning with the same letter, as quickly as possible. In Spanish: tutti frutti.
- Synonym: adedanha
- (stock market) stop loss order (order to close one’s position if the market drops to a specified price level)
- (Brazil, upper-class slang) stop; end (the act of putting a stop to something)
Interjection
stop!
- Said by a player of the game of stop to cease the current turn, after which the players count how many words they wrote.
See also
- CEP (acronym of "cidade, estado, país", meaning "city, state, country", a category in the game of stop)
Further reading
- Stop! on the Portuguese Wikipedia.Wikipedia pt
Romanian
Etymology
From French stop.
Noun
stop n (uncountable)
- stop
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English stop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /es?top/, [es?t?op]
Interjection
stop
- stop
Swedish
Noun
stop n
- beer mug.
- stoup
Declension
Synonyms
- sejdel
Anagrams
- post
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refrain
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???f?e?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English refreynen, from Anglo-Norman refraindre, Middle French refreindre (from Latin refringere), and Anglo-Norman refrener, Middle French refrener (from Latin refrenare).
Verb
refrain (third-person singular simple present refrains, present participle refraining, simple past and past participle refrained)
- (transitive, archaic) To hold back, to restrain (someone or something). [from 14th c.]
- (reflexive, archaic) To show restraint; to hold oneself back. [from 14th c.]
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts V:
- And nowe I saye unto you: refrayne youreselves from these men, and let them alone [...].
- 1899, Sabine Baring-Gould, A Book of the West Volume 1 Chapter 18
- As I went down the river, all dissatisfaction at my lot passed away, and by the time Dartmouth came in view I could no longer refrain myself, but threw my cap into the air, and barely caught it from falling overboard as I shouted, "Hurrah for merry England! […] "
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts V:
- (transitive, now rare) To repress (a desire, emotion etc.); to check or curb. [from 14th c.]
- his reson aperceyueth it wel that it is synne / agayns the lawe of god / and yet his reson / refreyneth nat his foul delit or talent.
- (intransitive, with preposition "from") To stop oneself from some action or interference; to abstain. [from 15th c.]
- July 5, 1731, Jonathan Swift, letter to Vanessa
- If you knew how I struggle for a little health, what uneasiness I am at in riding and walking, and refraining from every thing agreeable to my taste
- July 5, 1731, Jonathan Swift, letter to Vanessa
- (transitive, rare, regional) To abstain from (food or drink). [from 16th c.]
Translations
Etymology 2
From French refrain, from the Old French verb refraindre (“to break off, repeat”), from Latin re- (“back, again”) + frang? (“break”); compare Occitan refranhs (“a refrain”), refranher (“to repeat”). See refract and the verb refrain.
Noun
refrain (plural refrains)
- The chorus or burden of a song repeated at the end of each verse or stanza.
- (by extension) A much repeated comment, complaint, or saying.
- Synonym: old saw
Translations
References
- refrain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Ren fair, ferrian
French
Etymology
Alteration of Old French refrait, past participle of the verb refraindre (based on the verb's infinitive), itself from Vulgar Latin *refrangere, from Latin refringo, refringere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.f???/
Noun
refrain m (plural refrains)
- refrain, chorus
Descendants
- ? Danish: refræn
- ? English: refrain
- ? German: Refrain
- ? Spanish: refrán
Further reading
- “refrain” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- fariner
Italian
Etymology
From French refrain.
Noun
refrain m (invariable)
- refrain
- Synonym: ritornello
Anagrams
- rifarne
Further reading
- refrain in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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