different between stop vs sit

Translingual

Etymology

From English full stop

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?st?p]

Noun

stop

1. 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)

1. (intransitive) To cease moving.

2. (intransitive) To not continue.
3. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.

4. (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).

5. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.

6. (transitive) To close or block an opening.

7. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.

8. (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.

9. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
10. (obsolete) To punctuate.

    • if his sentences were properly stopped

11. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
12. (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)

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. A device intended to block the path of a moving object
   1. (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.
   2. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
6. (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

7. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
8. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.

9. (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.
10. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
11. (soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
12. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.

13. (photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
14. (photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
15. (photography) An f-stop.
16. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
17. (fencing) A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Punctuation mark

stop

1. 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)

1. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.

Translations

Etymology 3

s- +? top

Adjective

stop (not comparable)

1. (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

1. 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)

1. An action of stopping, cessation.
2. A plug for a sink, a stopper.
3. An electric fuse.

   Synonyms: smeltstop, zekering

Derived terms

• smeltstop
• stopcontact
• stoppenkast

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

stop

1. first-person singular present indicative of stoppen
2. imperative of stoppen

Anagrams

• post
• spot

Finnish

Interjection

stop

1. stop (halt)
2. stop (end-of-sentence indicator in telegrams)

Synonyms

• (halt): seis

French

Etymology

1792. Borrowed from English stop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?p/

Interjection

stop!

1. stop!

Noun

stop m (uncountable)

1. stop sign
2. 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

1. halt! stop!

Punctuation

stop

1. stop (used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram)

Noun

stop (plural stopok)

1. (colloquial) stop sign (a red sign on the side of a street instructing vehicles to stop)

2. (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)

1. to stop

Conjugation

Synonyms

• stad

Noun

stop m (genitive singular stop, nominative plural stopanna)

1. 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!

1. stop!, halt!

Noun

stop m (plural stop)

1. stop (roadsign; bus stop etc; block)

Anagrams

• post
• spot

Latvian

Etymology

Borrowed from English stop.

Interjection

stop!

1. stop!, halt!

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?p/

Etymology 1

Deverbal of stopi?.

Noun

stop m inan

1. (chemistry) an alloy; a mixture of metals.

Declension

Synonyms

• alia? (obsolete)

Verb

stop

1. second-person singular imperative of stopi?

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English stop.

Interjection

stop

1. stop!, halt!

Noun

stop m inan

1. a stop sign.

2. (colloquial) a vehicle's brake light.

3. (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)

1. stop (function or button that causes a device to stop operating)
2. (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

3. (stock market) stop loss order (order to close one’s position if the market drops to a specified price level)
4. (Brazil, upper-class slang) stop; end (the act of putting a stop to something)

Interjection

stop!

1. 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)

1. stop

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English stop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?top/, [es?t?op]

Interjection

stop

1. stop

Swedish

Noun

stop n

1. beer mug.
2. stoup

Declension

Synonyms

• sejdel

Anagrams

• post

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?t, IPA^(key): /s?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English sitten, from Old English sittan, from Proto-West Germanic *sittjan, from Proto-Germanic *sitjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“sit”).

Verb

sit (third-person singular simple present sits, present participle sitting, simple past sat or (dated, poetic) sate, past participle sat or (archaic, dialectal) sitten)

1. (intransitive, copulative, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
   • 1460-1500, The Towneley Plays?

     He is so fair, without lease, he seems full well to sit on this.

   After a long day of walking, it was good just to sit and relax.

2. (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.

   I asked him to sit.

3. (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position permanently.

   The temple has sat atop that hill for centuries.

   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     The Yellow Sea sits between the Korean Peninsula and China.

4. (intransitive, copulative) To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.

   • And Moses said to […] the children of Reuben, Shall your brothren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
5. (government) To be a member of a deliberative body.

   I currently sit on a standards committee.

6. (law, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.

   In what city is the circuit court sitting for this session.

7. To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     The calamity sits heavy on us.

8. To be adjusted; to fit.

   Your new coat sits well.
9. (intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.

   How will this new contract sit with the workers?

   I don’t think it will sit well.

   The violence in these video games sits awkwardly with their stated aim of educating children.

10. (transitive, causative) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.

    Sit him in front of the TV and he might watch for hours.

11. (transitive) To accommodate in seats; to seat.

    The dining room table sits eight comfortably.
12. (US, transitive, intransitive) To babysit.

    I'm going to sit for them on Thursday.

    I need to find someone to sit my kids on Friday evening for four hours.

    • 1980, Stephen King, The Mist

      I saw […] Mrs. Turman, who sometimes sat Billy when Steff and I went out […]

13. (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, Britain) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
15. To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.

    • The partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not.

16. To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.

    I'm sitting for a painter this evening.

17. To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
    • 1689, John Selden, Table Talk

      like a good miller that knows how to grind, which way soever the wind sits

Conjugation

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:sit.

Synonyms

• (be in a position in which the upper body is upright and the legs are supported): be seated
• (move oneself into such a position): be seated, sit down (from a standing position), sit up (from a prone position), take a seat
• (of an object: occupy a given position permanently): be, be found, be situated
• (be a member of a deliberative body):
• (be accepted): be accepted, be welcomed, be well received
• (to accommodate in seats): seat

Derived terms

Translations

See also

Noun

sit (plural sits)

1. (mining) Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine.
2. (rare, Buddhism) An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

sit (plural sits)

1. (informal) Short for situation.

Related terms

• sitrep

Anagrams

• 'its, 'tis, -ist, IST, ITS, Ist, STI, TIS, TIs, is't, ist, it's, its, tis

Afrikaans

Etymology

Formally from Dutch zitten (“to sit”), from Frankish *sittjan, from Proto-Germanic *sitjan?. Semantically from a merger of the former and related Dutch zetten (“to set, put”), from Proto-Germanic *satjan?, whence also Afrikaans set (chiefly in compounds). Both Germanic verbs are eventually from Proto-Indo-European *sed-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?t/

Verb

sit (present sit, present participle sittende, past participle gesit)

1. (intransitive) to sit; to be in a sitting position (usually used with op, binne or in)

2. (intransitive) to sit; to sit down to move into a sitting position

3. (transitive) to place, to put

4. (transitive) to deposit

Usage notes

• Sit and its derivatives are usually more commonly used than plaas for their overlapping senses, but are sometimes considered less formal than plaas, especially in formal writing.

Synonyms

• (to deposit): deponeer, plaas
• (to place): neersit, plaas

Derived terms

• afsit
• besit
• neersit
• opsit
• sitplek

Related terms

• beset

Danish

Pronoun

sit n (common sin, plural sine)

1. (reflexive possessive) third-person sg pronoun, meaning his/her/its (own)

See also

Gothic

Romanization

sit

1. Romanization of ????????????

Karelian

Etymology

Related to Veps sid'.

Adverb

sit

1. here

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sit/, [s??t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sit/, [sit?]

Verb

sit

1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of sum (be)
   • 4th century, St Jerome, Vulgate, Tobit 3:23

     Sit nomen tuum Deus Israhel benedictum in saecula. (Be thy name, O God of Israel, blessed for ever.)

References

• sit in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Latvian

Verb

sit

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of sist
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of sist
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of sist
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of sist
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of sist
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of sist

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

sit

1. present tense of sitja, sitje, sitta and sitte
2. imperative of sitja and sitje

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?it/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *sit?.

Noun

sit m inan

1. Any rush of the genus Juncus.

Declension

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

sit n

1. genitive plural of sito

Further reading

• sit in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *syt? (“satiated, full”).

Adjective

s?t (definite s?t?, comparative sitiji, Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. sated, full

Declension

Antonyms

• gladan
• la?an (Croatia)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *sit?.

Alternative forms

• sìta / s?ta, sìtina / s?tina, sìt?k, sìt?k (more means Scirpus)

Noun

s?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. rush (genus Juncus)

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *syt?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sít/

Adjective

s?t (comparative b?lj s?t, superlative n?jbolj s?t)

1. sated, full

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *sit?.

Alternative forms

• site, s?tje, sitína

Noun

s?t m inan

1. rush (genus Juncus)

Further reading

• “sit”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Southern Ohlone

Noun

sit

1. tooth

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English shit.

Noun

sit

1. remnant

Veps

Etymology

Related to Finnish sitta.

Noun

sit

1. shit