| backstop | (noun) a precaution in case of an emergency | - |
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| (noun) (baseball) a fence or screen (as behind home plate) to prevent the ball from traveling out of the playing field | - |
| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the position of catcher | Synonyms: catcher |
| (verb) act as a backstop | - |
| doorstop | (noun) a stop that keeps open doors from moving | Synonyms: doorstopper |
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| nonstop | (adjective) at all times | Synonyms: around-the-clock, day-and-night, round-the-clock |
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| (adjective) (of a journey especially a flight) occurring without stops | - |
| (noun) a flight made without intermediate stops between source and destination | Synonyms: nonstop flight |
| (adverb) without stopping | - |
| shortstop | (noun) the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base | Synonyms: short |
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| (noun) (baseball) the person who plays the shortstop position | - |
| stop | (noun) the act of stopping something | Synonyms: stoppage |
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| (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey | Synonyms: layover, stopover |
| (noun) a restraint that checks the motion of something | Synonyms: catch |
| (noun) an obstruction in a pipe or tube | Synonyms: block, blockage, closure, occlusion, stoppage |
| (noun) a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens | Synonyms: diaphragm |
| (noun) (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes | - |
| (noun) a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it | Synonyms: occlusive, plosive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop consonant |
| (noun) a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | Synonyms: full point, full stop, period, point |
| (noun) the event of something ending | Synonyms: halt |
| (noun) a spot where something halts or pauses | - |
| (noun) the state of inactivity following an interruption | Synonyms: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stoppage |
| (verb) prevent completion | Synonyms: break, break off, discontinue |
| (verb) stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments | Synonyms: hold on |
| (verb) hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of | Synonyms: arrest, check, contain, hold back, turn back |
| (verb) seize on its way | Synonyms: intercept |
| (verb) render unsuitable for passage | Synonyms: bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade |
| (verb) come to a halt, stop moving | Synonyms: halt |
| (verb) cause to end | - |
| (verb) interrupt a trip | Synonyms: stop over |
| (verb) stop from happening or developing | Synonyms: block, halt, kibosh |
| (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, quit |
| (verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: cease, end, finish, terminate |
| whistlestop | (verb) tour the country in order to solicit votes for an election | - |
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