Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, by. / To pay a visit briefly.

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

(intransitive) To cease moving. / (intransitive) Not to continue. / (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing. / (transitive) To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).

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.

Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.

(physics) The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

(of a vehicle) Not moving, but not properly parked or berthed; said also of the occupants of such a vehicle. / (more generally) In the state resulting from having stopped.

simple past tense and past participle of stop

present participle of stop

The act of something that stops; a halt. / Material for filling a cavity. / (mining) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.