- a place where a bus or train stops regularly for passengers to get on or off
- I get off at the next stop.
- Is this your stop?
- Winchester will be the next station stop.
- (North American English) Where's the nearest subway stop?
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by bus and traina1- Piccadilly Circus is the next stop.
- It's only a few stops on the subway.
- I'm getting off at the last stop.
- You're not allowed to get off between stops.
- We were chatting and missed our stop.
- The restaurant is only a few subway stops away.
- The music shop was just three tram stops away from his flat.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- bus
- subway
- tram
- …
- get off at
- miss
- reach
- …
- at a/the stop
- between stops
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- an act of stopping or stopping something; the state of being stopped
- The trip included an overnight stop in Brussels.
- We made several stops along the way.
- She brought the car to a stop.
- Work has temporarily come to a stop while the funding is reviewed.
- It is time to put a stop to the violence.
- They campaigned to put up a stop sign at the busy intersection outside the school.
Extra Examples- Between twelve and two, everything comes to a dead stop.
- He is making a campaign stop in Lubbock, Texas.
- She brought the car to an abrupt stop.
- The police found the drugs during a routine traffic stop.
- The truck came to a sudden stop.
- There will be a stop at Aboyne.
- We had a lunch stop at Timperley.
- a stop for refreshments
- to put a stop to all the arguments
- The flight took 15 hours including the refuelling stop.
- The President made an unscheduled stop in Quebec on Monday.
- After a brief stop, the bus set off again.
- New York is the final stop on the band's international tour.
- Please keep your seatbelts fastened until we've come to a complete stop.
- They made a quick stop at a small roadside diner for supper.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- long
- brief
- short
- …
- have
- make
- light
- sign
- stop at
- stop for
- bring something to a stop
- come, draw, pull, slow, etc. to a stop
- put a stop to something
- …
- (also more frequent full stop, full point)(all British English)(North American English period)the mark ( . ) used at the end of a sentence and in some abbreviations, for example e.g.
- a row of pipes on an organ that produce the different sounds
- a handle on an organ that the player pushes in or pulls out to control the sound produced by the pipes
- a speech sound made by stopping the flow of air coming out of the mouth and then suddenly releasing it, for example /p/, /k/, /t/ synonym plosive see also glottal stop see also tab stop
of bus/train
act of stopping
punctuation
music
phonetics
Word OriginOld English (for)stoppian ‘block up (an aperture)’, of West Germanic origin; related to German stopfen, from late Latin stuppare ‘to stuff’.
Idioms
See stop in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee stop in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishcome to a full stop
- to stop completely
- The car began to shudder and eventually came to a full stop in front of the church.
in stops and starts | by/in fits and starts
- frequently starting and stopping again; not continuously
- Babies do not grow at a steady rate but in stops and starts.
pull out all the stops
- (informal) to make the greatest effort possible to achieve somethingTopics Successc2
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