A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station. • An action of stopping; interruption of travel. • That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment. • A device intended to block the path of a moving object • 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. • A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. • A consonant sound in which the passage of air is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis. • A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon. • A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ. • 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. • A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible. • A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal. • The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones. • A marking on a rabbit's hind foot. • A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light. • A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image. • An f-stop. • The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses. • A coup d'arret, or stop thrust. • Ellipsis of full stop.