Definition of stop#up in English English dictionary
- stop
- To cease moving
I stopped at the traffic lights.
- stop
- To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing
The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.
- stop
- An action of stopping; interruption of travel
That stop was not planned.
- stop
- A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ
The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.
- stop
- An f-stop
- stop
- Short for a stopper, used in the phrase 'pull out all the stops'
- stop
- To cause (something) to come to an end
The referees stopped the fight.
- stop
- A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player
- stop
- To come to an end
Soon the rain will stop.
- stop
- To stay a while
He stopped for two weeks at the inn.
- stop
- A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis
- stop
- The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones
The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.
- stop
- Prone to halting or hesitation
He’s stop still.
- stop
- A button that activates the stop function
- stop
- A device intended to block the path of a moving object; as, a door stop
- stop
- To tarry
He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.
- stop
- A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible
- stop
- To adjust the aperture of a camera lens
To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.
- stop
- To close or block an opening
He stopped the wound with gauze.
- stop
- A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon
- stop
- A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off
They agreed to see each other at the bus stop.
- stop and smell the roses
- To relax; to take time out of one's busy schedule to enjoy or appreciate the beauty of life
Slow down. Stop and smell the roses now and then.
- stop at nothing
- To take any measures to do or achieve something, especially if it involves great risk or danger; to do everything in one's power
He will stop at nothing to destroy his enemies.
- stop codon
- , a sequence of three RNA nucleotides (A, C, G or U) that instruct the synthesis, or translation, of a protein to stop. The three-letter stop codon sequences have been given names: "UAG" is amber, "UGA" is opal, and "UAA" is ochre
- stop dead
- to stop suddenly
- stop down
- To decrease the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a lower number to an f/stop represented by a higher number
To get an image with a larger “depth of field”—ie, where more of the distant objects as well as the nearer ones in a scene are in focus—the photographer must “stop down” the aperture of the lens, restricting the amount of light admitted.
- stop list
- A list of people who subscribe to a publication (e.g., newspaper) and no longer wish to receive it
- stop list
- A list of words or other data items which, for some special reason, should be ignored or bypassed by a particular data processing operation
If you equip your search engine with a stop list containing a few common words such as a, the, and and, you can decrease the full-text index size by about 20%.
- stop lists
- plural form of stop list
- stop loss order
- A conditional order placed with a stockbroker (or similar) to close one's position if the market drops to a specified price level
The shares are currently trading at $4.40 and he has issued a stop loss order to sell if they fall to $4.20.
- stop off
- To make a short visit somewhere, especially on the way to another place
It's a long drive across Texas, so we're going to stop off in Austin for a night.
- stop on a dime
- to stop dead; stop suddenly
Don't tell me to drive real fast in this heavy traffic. You know I can't stop on a dime.
- stop over
- To interrupt one's journey for a short (sometimes overnight) stay; to stop off
- stop press
- Used to announce an event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of publication, particularly of a newspaper edition
- stop press
- The event or news article important enough to delay or interrupt the print, or require a reprint, of a publication, particularly of a newspaper edition
Stop press” is the latest news, usually printed on the back of the paper.).
- stop press
- Used to grab attention, implying importance, news-worthiness, etc
- stop short
- Usually with of, to voluntarily cease an attempt to reach a certain point
- stop short
- To come to a sudden and unexpected stop, particularly while speaking or driving a vehicle
- stop sign
- A red sign on the street telling cars to stop
- stop signs
- plural form of stop sign
- stop someone in his tracks
- To prevent someone from continuing along a path or way, literal or figurative, he has begun going along
- stop the car
- When giving directions to a person (for example, a taxi driver), indicates that he or she should stop the vehicle
- stop the lights
- An interjection expressing exasperation or incredulity. or to illustrate the humour in a situation
Oh, stop the lights. The Priest is after parkin' across the street. I think he's comin' over here.
- stop the presses
- An imperative form used to introduce especially new, important, surprising, or recent developments
- stop up
- To increase the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a higher number to an f/stop represented by a lower number and causing more light to pass into the camera
To stop down means to narrow the aperture; to stop up or open up means to expand it.
- stop up
- To fill a hole or cavity, or block an opening or passage, as with a plug
So then we . . . scratched around and found an old tin washpan, and stopped up the holes as well as we could.
- stop valve
- A valve that may be turned to regulate the flow of fluid through a pipe (especially water through a mains supply)
- stop word
- a word, usually one of a series in a stop list, that is to be ignored by a search engine etc
- stop words
- plural form of stop word
- stop-gap
- Temporary; short-term
They put a stop-gap solution in place, but need something more permanent.
- stop-gap
- A temporary measure or short-term fix used until something better can be obtained
The small company uses their new product features as a stop-gap until they can develop a new product.
- stop-loss order
- Alternative spelling of stop loss order
- stop-motion
- An animation technique wherein physical objects are slightly altered and photographed one picture at a time to give an illusion of movement when displayed in sequence
- stop-over
- Alternative spelling of stopover
- stop-over
- A short interruption in a journey or the place visited during such an interruption
- stop
- {v} to hinder form going on, stand still, suppress, stay, regulate, close
- stop
- {n} a cessation of motion, pause, prohibition, obstacle, point in writing, regulation in music
- stop dead in track
- (deyim) Stop completely still suddenly because of fear, a noise, etc
- stop out
- Stay out later than usual
It was a real treat being allowed to stop out late.
- stop
- A rank of jacks or a device producing a peculiar tone quality or alteration of the sound Examples are: eight foot stop, machine stop, buff stop
- stop
- (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes; "the organist pulled out all the stops"
- stop
- That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; as obstacle; an impediment; an obstruction
- stop
- An order to buy at the market only when the market moves up to a specific price, or to sell at the market only when the market moves down to a specific price
- stop
- as in p, t, d, etc
- stop
- Part of frame against which door closes
- stop
- Button at end of Netscape's Tool Button Bar Use to stop downloading of a document For more information see "Netscape Basics "
- stop
- 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. The cafe owner has put up the required `no smoking' signs, but thinks his responsibility stops there = end
- stop
- A label given to a PushButton in some DialogBoxes that performs the action of stopping the work in progress indicated by the DialogBox
- stop
- When a moving person or vehicle stops or is stopped, they no longer move and they remain in the same place. The car failed to stop at an army checkpoint He stopped and let her catch up with him The event literally stopped the traffic = halt
- stop
- stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process
- stop
- a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
- stop
- To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound
- stop
- The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses
- stop
- A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc
- stop
- 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
- stop
- come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
- stop
- If an activity or process stops, it is no longer happening. The rain had stopped and a star or two was visible over the mountains The system overheated and filming had to stop
- stop
- The depression in a dog's face between the skull and the nasal bones
- stop
- If you have been doing something and then you stop doing it, you no longer do it. He can't stop thinking about it I've been told to lose weight and stop smoking I stopped working last year to have a baby Does either of the parties want to stop the fighting? She stopped in mid-sentence
- stop
- To point, as a composition; to punctuate
- stop
- It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds
- stop
- 1)A diaphragm setting on a lens at one of its apertures 2) A change in exposure by a factor of two One stop more exposure doubles the light reaching film or paper One stop less halves the exposure Either the aperture or the exposure time can be changed
- stop
- If you stop somewhere on a journey, you stay there for a short while. He insisted we stop at a small restaurant just outside of Atlanta
- stop
- If you stop something happening, you prevent it from happening or prevent it from continuing. He proposed a new diplomatic initiative to try to stop the war If the fire isn't stopped, it could spread to 25,000 acres I think she really would have liked to stop us seeing each other Motherhood won't stop me from pursuing my acting career
- stop
- 1 The knob or tab which is used to turn a type of sound on or off (see Drawknobs)
- stop
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "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"
- stop
- In the context of PD diagrams, the stop symbol represents the termination of a process
- stop
- Starts and stops the simulation The simulation by default begins by running and will halt automatically after a time given by the value input as ``Time to Run'' (below) Stop followed by Run will restart where it left off This can cause confusing results if the forcing from the boundaries is changed without re-initializing
- stop
- seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace"
- stop
- The molding on the inside of a window frame against which the window sash closes; in the case of a double-hung window, the sash slides against the stop Also called bead, side stop, window stop, and parting stop
- stop
- 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. She doesn't stop to think about what she's saying There is something rather strange about all this if one stops to consider it People who lead busy lives have no time to stop and reflect. = pause
- stop
- stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process"
- stop
- 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. = halt
- stop
- to stop dead: see dead to stop short of: see short to stop someone in their tracks: see track
- stop
- Visible indentation in the cat's nose Persian cats for example have a very strong stop Also called "break"
- stop
- 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
- stop
- a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically"
- stop
- To make fast; to stopper
- stop
- A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation
- stop
- render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road"
- stop
- Either the stationary lip at the back of a rabbet, or the removable molding at the front of the rabbet, either or both serving to hold lite or panel in the sash or frame with the help of spacers Also the part of a door frame against which the door closes
- stop
- Short for a stopper, used in the phrase pull out all the stops
- stop
- an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
- stop
- 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
- stop
- 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
- stop
- interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"
- stop
- put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother"
- stop
- a punctuation mark ( ) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop"
- stop
- 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
- stop
- That part of a rabbeted frame that the door closes against
- stop
- This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate
- stop
- 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
- stop
- Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far
- stop
- A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts
- stop
- a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta"
- stop
- To cause (something) to cease moving
- stop
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated"
- stop
- also, any of the consonants so formed
- stop
- 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
- stop a gap
- close an opening; correct
- stop a leak
- block a leak, plug a drip
- stop by
- If you stop by somewhere, you make a short visit to a person or place. Perhaps I'll stop by the hospital I'll stop by to see Leigh before going home
- stop consonant
- a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated
- stop down
- To decrease the size of the lens aperture The opposite of open up
- stop down
- To decrease the size of a lens aperture Opposite: open up a lens
- stop light
- red light at a cross walk
- stop loss
- Any provision in a policy designed to cut off an insurer's losses at a given point In effect, a stop loss agreement guarantees the loss ratio of the insurer (G)
- stop loss
- Any insurance policy provision designed to stop the company's loss at a given point, as an aggregate payable under a policy, a maximum payable for any one disability, or the like
- stop loss
- If the price hits this target you should consider selling it immediately Once a stock's price falls below this price, it has lost technical support to reach the first target Note: Once the first target is hit, the stop loss price no longer applies on the way to the second target price More Information: How are GorillaPicks™ generated? Emotion and the Stock Market
- stop loss
- = Any provision in a policy designed to cut off an insurer's losses at a given point In effect, a stop loss agreement guarantees the loss ratio of the insurer
- stop loss
- If your portfolio loses value by x percent since the last trade, TaraFolioTM will liquidate the entire stock portfolio and temporarily hold cash until the investor decides to enter the market again
- stop loss
- A form of reinsurance under which the reinsurer pays some or all of a cedant's aggregate retained losses in excess of a predetermined dollar amount or in excess of a percentage of premium
- stop loss
- A form of reinsurance under which the reinsurer pays some or all of a cedants aggregate retained losses in excess of a predetermined dollar amount or in excess of a percentage of premium
- stop loss
- Also called Out-Of-Pocket Maximum A stop loss limits the amount of co-insurance you must pay For instance, an 80/20 coinsurance with a $5,000 stop loss would mean that you would pay 20% of the next $5,000 of bills that are incurred A typical policy will pay 100% over the stop loss amount Make sure that the policy has a reasonable stop loss amount Some policies have very high stop loss benefits which can increase overall costs significantly ''
- stop loss
- Agreed upon point beyond which a managed care organization is no longer liable for costs Also see risk and risk coordinator
- stop loss
- Type of reinsurance which can be taken out by a health plan or self-funded employer plan The plan can be written to cover excess losses over a specified amount, either on a specific individual basis or on a total basis for the plan over a period of time usually one year
- stop off
- If you stop off somewhere, you stop for a short time in the middle of a journey. The president stopped off in Poland on his way to Munich for the economic summit
- stop order
- An order that becomes a market order when the futures contract reaches a particular price level A sell stop is placed below the market, a buy stop is placed above the market
- stop order
- An order to buy or sell when the price reaches an amount you specify, which is called the "stop price " The stop price is higher than the current market price on a buy stop order, or lower than the current market price on a sell stop order Your stop order becomes a market order, to be filled at the best price available, when the security reaches your stop price For example, if you place a buy stop order for $55 per share, your order becomes a market order as soon as the security's price reaches $55; if you place a sell stop order for $50, your order becomes a market order as soon as the security's price falls to $50 A stop order can be a means of limiting potential loss or protecting a profit; however, the price at which the order executes is not guaranteed, and can be substantially higher or lower than the stop price
- stop order
- An order that becomes a market order once the security has traded through the designated stop price Buy stops are entered above the current ask price If the price moves to or above the stop price, the order becomes a market order and will be executed at the current market price This price may be higher or lower than the stop price Sell stops are entered below the current market price If the price moves to or below the stop price, the order becomes a market order and will be executed at the current market price
- stop order
- Buy or sell a given number of shares when the price of the stock reaches a certain boundary (stop value) Stop buy activates when the price is higher or equal to the stop value, stop sell activates when the price is lower or equal to the stop value Stop orders are like the opposite of limit orders
- stop order
- An order to buy or sell a security when a definite price is reached, either above (on a buy) or below (on a sell) the price that prevailed when the order was given This type of trade provides more investment control than a market order, which will buy or sell the security at any price A stop order to buy, always at a higher price than the current market price, is usually designed to protect a profit or limit a loss on a short-sale A stop order to sell, always at a lower price than the current market price, is usually designed to protect a profit or limit a loss on a security already purchased at a higher price BACK TO TOP
- stop order
- An order to buy or sell when a given price is reached or passed A stop order to buy always specifies a price above the present market price A stop order to sell always specifies a price below the present market price When the stop price is reached or passed, the stop order becomes a market order
- stop order
- A stock transaction order: Buy at a price above, or sell at a price below, the current market This guarantees that a buyer's or seller's price criteria will be met
- stop order
- An order to a broker to buy or sell a stock when it reaches a specified level of decline or gain in price
- stop order
- A type of order that becomes a market order when a stock is being traded at or beyond the specified price of the order
- stop order
- An order that aims to limit losses by fixing a figure at which purchases shall be sold or sales bought in, as where stock is bought at 100 and the broker is directed to sell if the market price drops to 98
- stop order
- a stop order is either an order to buy a stock at the market price when the price rises to a certain level or to sell a stock at the market price when the price falls to a certain level
- stop over
- interrupt a journey temporarily, e g , overnight; "We had to stop over in Venezuela on our flight back from Brazil"
- stop over
- interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence"
- stop payment
- instruction to not honor a check
- stop payment
- An order to one's bank not to honor a check one has drawn
- stop press
- Stop press is sometimes printed next to an article in a newspaper to indicate that this is very recent news and was added after the rest of the newspaper had been printed. STOP PRESS -- Crisis in Chechnya. late news added to a newspaper after the main part has been printed
- stop short
- cease not far from the end
- stop someone short
- interrupt someone
- stop street
- A street intersection at which a vehicle must come to a complete stop before entering a through street
- stop up
- fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak"
- stop-loss
- A resting order designed to close out a losing position when the price reaches a level specified in the order It becomes a market order when the "stop" price is reached
- stop-loss
- Insuring with a third party against a risk that the plan cannot financially manage For example, a health plan can self-insure hospitalization costs, or it can insure hospitalization costs with one or more insurance carriers
- stop-loss
- - The risk management technique in which the trade is liquidated to halt any further decline in value
- stop-loss
- a A position closing order left with the broker that necessitates automatic execution once the criteria of the order are met Also called a stop-loss order
- stop-loss
- An annual limit or cap on how much in deductibles and co-payments the patient has to pay
- stop-loss
- The purchase of insurance coverage from a third party in the event of unexpected financial loss to the plan or provider, maybe individual or aggregate and usually both In the event of a catastrophic claim, stop-loss limits the exposure for both the insurer and the purchaser
- stop-loss
- The purchase of insurance coverage from a third party in the event of unexpected financial loss to the plan or provider, may be individual or aggregate and usually both In the event of a catastrophic claim Stop-loss limits the exposure for both the insurer and the purchaser
- stop-loss order
- an arrangement in which the person who buys and sells stocks for you agrees to buy or sell them when they reach a particular price
- stop-payment check
- check that a bank refrains from honoring