Synonyms of the word

plug

• n. (electricity) A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket.
• n. Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.
• n. (US) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
• n. (US, slang) A high, tapering silk hat.
• n. (US, slang) A worthless horse.
• n. (construction) A block of wood let into a wall to afford a hold for nails.
• n. A mention of a product (usually a book, film or play) in an interview, or an interview which features…
• n. (geology) A body of once molten rock that hardened in a volcanic vent. Usually round or oval in shape.
• n. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a rigid, buoyant or semi-buoyant body and one or more hooks.
• n. (horticulture) A small seedling grown in a tray from expanded polystyrene or polythene filled usually…
• n. A short cylindrical piece of jewellery commonly worn in larger-gauge body piercings, especially in the…
• v. (transitive) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
• v. (transitive) To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To persist or continue with something.
• v. (transitive) To shoot a bullet into something with a gun.
• v. (slang, transitive) to have sex with, penetrate sexually.

advertise

• v. (transitive, now rare) To notify (someone) of something; to call someone's attention to something.
• v. (transitive) To give (especially public) notice of (something); to announce publicly.
• v. (intransitive) To provide information about a person or goods and services to influence others.
• v. (transitive) To provide public information about (a product, service etc.) in order to attract public…

advertize

• v. Alternative spelling of advertise.

ballyhoo

• n. Sensational or clamorous advertising or publicity.
• n. Noisy shouting or uproar.
• v. To sensationalise or make grand claims.
• n. Hemiramphus brasiliensis, an inshore, surface-dwelling species of needlefish forming sizeable schools.
• n. An unseaworthy or slovenly ship.

bit

• n. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
• n. A rotary cutting tool fitted to a drill, used to bore holes.
• n. (dated, Britain) A coin of a specified value. (Also formerly used for a nine-pence coin in the British…
• n. (obsolete, Canada) A ten-cent piece, dime.
• n. (US) An eighth of a dollar. Note that there is no coin minted worth 12.5 cents. (When this term first…
• n. (historical, US) In the southern and southwestern states, a small silver coin (such as the real) formerly…
• n. A small amount of something.
• n. (informal) Specifically, a small amount of time.
• n. A portion of something.
• n. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree.
• n. (slang) A prison sentence, especially a short one.
• n. An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
• n. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
• n. The cutting iron of a plane.
• adv. To a small extent; in a small amount (usually with "a").
• v. (transitive) To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
• v. simple past tense of bite.
• v. (informal in US, archaic in Britain) past participle of bite, bitten.
• adj. (colloquial) bitten.
• adj. (only in combination) Having been bitten.
• n. (mathematics, computing) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
• n. (computing) The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
• n. (information theory, cryptography) Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
• n. (information theory) A unit of measure for information entropy.
• n. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).

bite

• v. (transitive) To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
• v. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
• v. (intransitive) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
• v. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
• v. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
• v. (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
• v. (intransitive, figuratively) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some…
• v. (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
• v. (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be…
• v. (transitive) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense.
• v. (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so…
• v. (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
• v. (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
• v. (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
• v. (intransitive, African American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
• n. The act of biting.
• n. The wound left behind after having been bitten.
• n. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
• n. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
• n. (slang) Something unpleasant.
• n. (slang) An act of plagiarism.
• n. A small meal or snack.
• n. (figuratively) aggression.
• n. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of…
• n. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
• n. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.
• n. (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else,…

block

• n. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
• n. A chopping block; cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
• n. A group of urban lots of property, several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
• n. A residential building consisting of flats.
• n. The distance from one street to another in a city that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
• n. Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
• n. (slang) The human head.
• n. A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
• n. A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
• n. A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end.
• n. (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
• n. (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
• n. (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
• n. (rigging) A case with one or more sheaves/pulleys, used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for…
• n. (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present…
• n. Something that prevents something from passing (see blockage).
• n. (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball,…
• n. (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum…
• n. (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s…
• n. (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
• n. A section of split logs used as fuel.
• n. (Britain) Solitary confinement.
• n. A cellblock.
• n. (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
• n. (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
• n. (obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
• n. A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
• n. (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
• n. (cricket) A blockhole.
• n. (cricket) The popping crease.
• n. Misspelling of bloc.
• v. (transitive) To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
• v. (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
• v. (transitive, sports) To impede an opponent.
• v. (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
• v. (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
• v. (transitive) To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc., with an undesirable someone.
• v. (computing, intransitive) To wait.
• v. (transitive) To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.

blockage

• n. The state of being blocked.
• n. A thing that is blocking.

chaw

• n. (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
• n. (countable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco.
• n. (obsolete) The jaw.
• v. (archaic or nonstandard) To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud); to champ…
• v. To ruminate in thought; to consider; to keep the mind working upon; to brood over.
• v. (Britain, slang) To steal.

chew

• v. To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break…
• v. To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth.
• v. (informal) To think about something; to ponder; to chew over.
• n. The act of chewing; mastication with the mouth.
• n. A small sweet, such as a taffy, that is eaten by chewing.
• n. (informal, uncountable) Chewing tobacco.
• n. (countable or uncountable) A plug or wad of chewing tobacco; chaw or a chaw.

close

• v. (physical) To remove a gap.
• v. (social) To finish, to terminate.
• v. To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine.
• v. (surveying) To have a vector sum of 0; that is, to form a closed polygon.
• n. An end or conclusion.
• n. The manner of shutting; the union of parts; junction.
• n. A grapple in wrestling.
• n. (music) The conclusion of a strain of music; cadence.
• n. (music) A double bar marking the end.
• adj. (now rare) Closed, shut.
• adj. Narrow; confined.
• adj. At a little distance; near.
• adj. Intimate; well-loved.
• adj. Oppressive; without motion or ventilation; causing a feeling of lassitude.
• adj. (Ireland, England, Scotland, weather) Hot, humid, with no wind.
• adj. (linguistics, phonetics, of a vowel) Articulated with the tongue body relatively close to the hard palate.
• adj. Strictly confined; carefully guarded.
• adj. (obsolete) Out of the way of observation; secluded; secret; hidden.
• adj. Nearly equal; almost evenly balanced.
• adj. Short.
• adj. (archaic) Dense; solid; compact.
• adj. (archaic) Concise; to the point.
• adj. (dated) Difficult to obtain.
• adj. (dated) Parsimonious; stingy.
• adj. Adhering strictly to a standard or original; exact.
• adj. Accurate; careful; precise; also, attentive; undeviating; strict.
• adj. Marked, evident.
• n. (now rare) An enclosed field.
• n. (Britain) A street that ends in a dead end.
• n. (Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the…
• n. (Scotland) The common staircase in a tenement.
• n. A cathedral close.
• n. (law) The interest which one may have in a piece of ground, even though it is not enclosed.

closure

• n. An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
• n. A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
• n. A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
• n. (programming) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of…
• n. (mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
• n. (topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
• n. The act of shutting; a closing.
• n. That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
• n. (obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
• n. A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative…

cud

• n. The portion of food which is brought back into the mouth by ruminating animals from their first stomach,…
• v. (transitive) To bring back into the mouth and chew a second time.
• v. (informal) Alternative form of could.

fireplug

• n. A fire hydrant.

hack

• v. (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
• v. (intransitive) To cough noisily.
• v. To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g.,…
• v. (transitive, slang, computing) By extension, to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account…
• v. (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
• v. (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective,…
• v. (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something…
• v. (computing, slang, transitive) To work with on an intimately technical level.
• v. (ice hockey) To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.
• v. (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
• v. (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
• v. (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
• v. To strike in a frantic movement.
• v. (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
• n. A tool for chopping.
• n. A hacking blow.
• n. A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
• n. A dry cough.
• n. A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
• n. (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
• n. (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes…
• n. (obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pickaxe.
• n. (computing, slang) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
• n. (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
• n. (computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
• n. (computing) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced…
• n. (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
• n. (slang, military) Time check.
• n. (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.
• n. A kick on the shins in football.
• n. (falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom…
• n. A food-rack for cattle.
• n. A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
• n. A grating in a mill race.
• v. To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
• v. (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
• n. (obsolete) An ordinary saddle horse, especially one which has been let out for hire and is old and tired.
• n. A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. (newspaper hack).
• n. (pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
• n. (slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
• n. A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney…
• n. (pejorative) An untalented writer.
• n. (pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to…
• n. (pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
• n. (politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory).
• n. (obsolete) A writer who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
• n. (obsolete) A procuress.
• v. (dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
• v. To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
• v. (obsolete) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
• v. (obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
• v. To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
• v. To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
• n. A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for…
• v. To play hackeysack.

hit

• v. (heading, physical) To strike.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To briefly visit.
• v. (transitive, informal) To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
• v. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
• v. (transitive) To affect negatively.
• v. (heading, games) To make a play.
• v. (transitive, computing, programming) To use; to connect to.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To have sex with.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
• n. A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches…
• n. (music) A recorded song that receives widespread recognition and success, mainly through radio airplay.
• n. An attack on a location, person or people.
• n. (computing, Internet) The result of a search of a computer system or of a search engine.
• n. (Internet) A measured visit to a web site, a request for a single file from a web server.
• n. An approximately correct answer in a test set.
• n. (baseball) The complete play, when the batter reaches base without the benefit of a walk, error, or fielder’s…
• n. (colloquial) A dose of an illegal or addictive drug.
• n. A premeditated murder done for criminal or political purposes.
• n. (dated) A peculiarly apt expression or turn of thought; a phrase which hits the mark.
• n. A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts for less than a gammon.
• adj. Designating of a popular song.
• pron. (dialectal) It.

hoopla

• n. a bustling to-do, excited speech or noise, usually loud.
• n. a carnival game in which the player attempts to throw hoops around pegs.

horse

• n. Any of several animals related to Equus ferus caballus.
• n. Equipment with legs.
• n. (nautical) Type of equipment.
• n. (mining) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course…
• n. (slang) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
• n. (US) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss…
• n. (dated, slang, among students) A translation or other illegitimate aid in study or examination.
• n. (dated, slang, among students) horseplay; tomfoolery.
• v. (intransitive) To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".).
• v. (transitive) To provide with a horse.
• v. (obsolete) To get on horseback.
• v. To sit astride of; to bestride.
• v. (of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
• v. To take or carry on the back.
• v. To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such…
• n. (uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin (drug).

hydrant

• n. An outlet from a liquid/fluid main often consisting of an upright pipe with a valve attached from which…

hype

• n. Promotion or propaganda; especially exaggerated claims.
• v. (transitive) To promote heavily; to advertise or build up.
• n. Alternative form of hipe (wrestling move).
• v. Alternative form of hipe (wrestling move).
• adj. Informal form of hyped.

jade

• n. (uncountable) A semiprecious stone, either nephrite or jadeite, generally green or white in color, often…
• n. A bright shade of slightly bluish or greyish green, typical of polished jade stones.
• adj. Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.
• n. A horse too old to be put to work.
• n. (especially pejorative) A woman.
• v. To tire, weary or fatigue.
• v. (obsolete) To treat like a jade; to spurn.
• v. (obsolete) To make ridiculous and contemptible.

morsel

• n. A small fragment or share of something, commonly applied to food.
• n. A very small amount.

nag

• n. A small horse; a pony.
• n. An old useless horse.
• n. (obsolete, derogatory) A paramour.
• v. To continuously remind or complain to someone in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary…
• v. To act inappropriately in the eyes of peers, to backstab, to verbally abuse.
• v. To bother with persistent memories.
• v. Other sorts of persistent annoyance, e.g.
• n. One who nags.

occlusion

• n. The process of occluding, or something that occludes.
• n. (medicine) Anything that obstructs or closes a vessel or canal.
• n. (medicine, dentistry) The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.
• n. (meteorology) An occluded front.
• n. (phonology) A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop.
• n. (physics) The absorption of a gas or liquid by a substance such as a metal.
• n. (computing) The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.

packaging

• v. present participle of package.
• n. the act of packing something.
• n. the materials used to pack something.
• n. the industry that produces such material.
• n. (by extension) the manner in which a person or product is promoted.

persevere

• v. To persist steadfastly in pursuit of an undertaking, task, journey, or goal, even if hindered by distraction,…

persist

• v. (intransitive) To go on stubbornly or resolutely.
• v. (intransitive) To repeat an utterance.
• v. (intransitive) To continue to exist.
• v. (computing, transitive) To cause to persist; make permanent.

promote

• v. (transitive) To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
• v. (transitive) To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell…
• v. (transitive) To encourage, urge or incite.
• v. (sports, usually in passive form) To elevate to the above league.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To increase the activity of (a catalyst) by changing its surface structure.
• v. (transitive, chess) To exchange (a pawn) for a queen or other piece when it reaches the eighth rank.
• v. (intransitive, Singapore) To move on to a subsequent stage of education.

promotion

• n. An advancement in rank or position.
• n. (marketing) Dissemination of positive information about a product, product line, brand, or company.
• n. (zoology, chiefly entomology) Forward motion. (Contrast remotion.).

publicity

• n. Advertising or other activity designed to rouse public interest in something.
• n. Public interest attracted in this way.
• n. The condition of being the object of public attention.

punch

• n. (countable) A hit or strike with one's fist.
• n. (uncountable) Power, strength, energy.
• n. (uncountable) Impact.
• n. (uncountable) A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) causing a video game character to punch.
• v. (transitive) To strike with one's fist.
• v. (transitive, of cattle) To herd.
• v. (transitive) To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar…
• v. (transitive) To enter (information) on a device or system.
• v. (transitive) To hit (a ball or similar object) with less than full force.
• v. (transitive) To make holes in something (rail ticket, leather belt, etc).
• v. To thrust against; to poke.
• n. (countable) A device, generally slender and round, used for creating holes in thin material, for driving…
• n. (countable) A mechanism for punching holes in paper or other thin material.
• n. (countable) A hole or opening created with a punch.
• n. (piledriving) An extension piece applied to the top of a pile; a dolly.
• n. A prop, as for the roof of a mine.
• v. To employ a punch to create a hole in or stamp or emboss a mark on something.
• v. To mark a ticket.
• n. A beverage, generally containing a mixture of fruit juice and some other beverage, often alcoholic.

push

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or…
• v. (transitive) To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action.
• v. (transitive) To press or urge forward; to drive.
• v. (transitive) To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.).
• v. (informal, transitive) To approach; to come close to.
• v. (intransitive) To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• v. (intransitive) To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action.
• v. To make a higher bid at an auction.
• v. (poker) To make an all-in bet.
• v. (chess, transitive) To move (a pawn) directly forward.
• v. (computing) To add (a data item) to the top of a stack.
• v. (computing) To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers.
• v. (obsolete) To thrust the points of the horns against; to gore.
• v. To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot.
• v. (snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at…
• n. A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing.
• n. An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents.
• n. A great effort (to do something).
• n. An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action.
• n. (military) A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company…
• n. A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score.
• n. (computing) The addition of a data item to the top of a stack.
• n. (Internet, uncountable) The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request,…
• n. (dated) A crowd or throng or people.
• n. (snooker) A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same…
• n. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A pustule; a pimple.

quid

• n. The inherent nature of something.
• n. (US, historical) A section of the Democratic-Republican Party between 1805 and 1811 (from tertium quid).
• n. (historical) A sovereign or guinea.
• n. (Britain, colloquial) Pound sterling.
• n. (Australia, colloquial) pound (before the 1966 currency change).
• n. (Ireland, colloquial) pound, punt.
• n. (Ireland, colloquial) euro.
• n. A piece of chewing tobacco.
• n. (US, colloquial) the act of chewing such tobacco.
• v. To chew tobacco.
• v. (of a horse) To let food drop from the mouth whilst chewing.

secure

• adj. Free from attack or danger; protected.
• adj. Free from the danger of theft; safe.
• adj. Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
• adj. Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
• adj. Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
• adj. Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
• adj. Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly…
• adj. Overconfident; incautious; careless.
• v. To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
• v. To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against…
• v. To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
• v. To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.

stop

• v. (intransitive) To cease moving.
• v. (intransitive) To not continue.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
• v. (transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
• v. (transitive) To close or block an opening.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down") To adjust the aperture of a camera…
• v. (intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.
• v. (intransitive) To tarry.
• v. (music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with…
• v. (obsolete) To punctuate.
• v. (nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
• n. A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually…
• n. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
• n. A device intended to block the path of a moving object.
• n. (linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by…
• n. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly…
• n. That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
• n. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
• n. (by extension) A button that activates the stop function.
• n. (music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
• n. (tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as…
• n. (zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
• n. (photography) An f-stop.
• n. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for…
• n. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which…
• n. The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing…
• adv. Prone to halting or hesitation.
• interj. halt! stop!
• punct. Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
• n. (Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
• adj. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

stoppage

• n. A pause or halt of some activity.
• n. Something that forms an obstacle to continued activity; a blockage or obstruction.

stopper

• n. Agent noun of stop, someone or something that stops something.
• n. A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
• n. A bung or cork.
• n. (slang, soccer) Goalkeeper.
• n. (finance, slang) In the commodity futures market, someone who is long (owns) a futures contract and is…
• n. (rail transport) A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination,…
• n. (botany) Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.
• n. A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.
• v. To close a container by using a stopper.

stopple

• n. a plug, a stopper.
• v. to plug, to stop up.

wad

• n. An amorphous, compact mass.
• n. A substantial pile (normally of money).
• n. A soft plug or seal, particularly as used between the powder and pellets in a shotgun cartridge.
• n. (slang) A sandwich.
• n. (slang, vulgar) An ejaculation of semen.
• n. (mineralogy) Any black manganese oxide or hydroxide mineral rich rock in the oxidized zone of various…
• v. To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball.
• v. (Ulster) To wager.
• v. To insert or force a wad into.
• v. To stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton.