Phrase Hound found 106 phrases and 27 compound words that contain stops. The most common are listed below. Open stops in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 106
- bus stopsplural of bus stop: A place where public transport buses stop to allow passengers to board or leave.
- pull out all the stopsTo hold back or reserve nothing.
- stops the jobthird-person singular simple present indicative of stop the job: To completely stop all traffic.
- stops the bleedingthird-person singular simple present indicative of stop the bleeding: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, the, bleeding.
- buffer stopsplural of buffer stop: a device installed at the end of a railway line or siding, which is intended to stop trains and other rail vehicles going any further.
- double stopsplural of double stop: An instance of two notes being played simultaneously.
- e-stopsplural of e-stop: An emergency stop control on machinery.
- f-stopsplural of f-stop: Any of the discrete steps or stopping points for adjusting the aperture of a lens, either marked on a ring on the lens and adjusted by rotating that ring or marked in the display of a digital camera and adjusted by …
- full stopsplural of full stop: The punctuation mark ⟨.⟩ (indicating the end of a sentence or marking an abbreviation).
- request stopsplural of request stop: A location at which public transport does not ordinarily stop, but will do so if specifically requested by a passenger.
- T-stopsplural of T-stop: A transmission stop; an alternative to an f-stop.
- Terry stopsplural of Terry stop: The brief detention of a person by the police on reasonable suspicion of involvement in criminal activity but short of probable cause to arrest.
- traffic stopsplural of traffic stop: A temporary detention of a driver of a vehicle and its occupants by police to investigate a possible crime or a minor violation of the law.
- train stopsPlural of train stop: A train protection device that automatically stops a train if it attempts to pass a signal when the signal aspect and operating rules prohibit such movement, or (in some applications) if it attempts to pass at an …
- truck stopsplural of truck stop: A roadside service area, usually consisting of a restaurant and service station and sometimes a motel or hotel, where drivers of long-haul trucks can stop to refuel, eat, and rest.
- organ stopsplural of organ stop: Any of many knobs near the keyboard of an organ used to select different sounds or timbres.
- pit stopsplural of pit stop: A stop made during an automobile race at the pit to refuel and perform other periodic maintenance on the vehicle.
- stops at nothingthird-person singular simple present indicative of 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.
- when the music stopsAt the moment when a period of activity, or excitement ends, forcing a sometimes uncomfortable return to reality.
- the buck stops hereA statement that no excuses will be made, that the speaker is going to take direct responsibility for matters, rather than pass the responsibility to higher authorities.
- stops-and-searchesplural of stop-and-search: Of or pertaining to laws or policing practices, found in some jurisdictions, which permit a law enforcement officer to temporarily detain and search a member of the public based on the officer's suspicions.
- floating bus stopsplural of floating bus stop: A bus stop separated from the sidewalk by a cycle lane.
- stops the pressesthird-person singular simple present indicative of stop the presses: An exclamation used to introduce especially new, important, surprising, or recent developments.
- tram stopsplural of tram stop: a designated point on a tram route where passengers may board or leave the tram
- glottal stopsplural of glottal stop: A plosive sound articulated with the glottis.
Compound words 27
- doorstopsplural of doorstop: Any device or object used to halt the motion of a door, as a large or heavy object, a wedge, or some piece of hardware fixed to the floor, door or wall.
- shortstopsplural of shortstop: The infield defensive player that stands between the second baseman and the third baseman.
- truckstopsplural of truckstop: A roadside service area, usually consisting of a restaurant and service station and sometimes a motel or hotel, where drivers of long-haul trucks can stop to refuel, eat, and rest.
- backstopsplural of backstop: An object or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.
- grasstopsAlternative form of grass tops: Of, related to, or involving local influential figures.
- airstopsplural of airstop: A designated landing site for helicopters.
- autostopsplural of autostop: A coupon-based system of hitchhiking that operated in communist Poland from the 1950s until the 1990s.
- beamstopsplural of beamstop: Any of several devices used in X-ray crystallography to avoid damage by X-rays
- checkstopsplural of checkstop: A check valve with override control to stop the flow regardless of its direction or pressure.
- firestopsplural of firestop: A fire block.