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Stop can be an adverb, a verb or a noun.

stop used as an adverb:

  1. Prone to halting or hesitation.
    "He’s stop still."

An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →

stop used as a verb:

  1. To cease moving.
    "I stopped at the traffic lights."
  2. To come to an end.
    "The riots stopped when police moved in."
  3. To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
    "The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks."
  4. To cause (something) to come to an end.
    "The referees stopped the fight."
  5. To close or block an opening.
    "He stopped the wound with gauze."
  6. To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
    "To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22."
  7. To stay a while.
    "He stopped for two weeks at the inn."
  8. To tarry.
    "He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

stop used as a noun:

  1. A (usually marked) place where line buses or trams halt to let passengers get on and off.
    "They agreed to see each other at the bus stop."
  2. An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
    "That stop was not planned."
  3. A device intended to block the path of a moving object; as, a door stop.
  4. A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
  5. A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
  6. Short for a stopper, used in the phrase 'pull out all the stops'.
  7. A function that halts playback or recording in devices such as videocassette and DVD player.
  8. A button that activates the stop function.
  9. A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
    "The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled."
  10. A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
  11. The depression in a dog's face between the skull and the nasal bones.
    "The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked."
  12. An f-stop.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is stop?

As detailed above, 'stop' can be an adverb, a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Adverb usage: He’s stop still.
  2. Verb usage: I stopped at the traffic lights.
  3. Verb usage: The riots stopped when police moved in.
  4. Verb usage: Soon the rain will stop.
  5. Verb usage: The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks.
  6. Verb usage: The referees stopped the fight.
  7. Verb usage: He stopped the wound with gauze.
  8. Verb usage: To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22.
  9. Verb usage: He stopped for two weeks at the inn.
  10. Verb usage: He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive.
  11. Noun usage: They agreed to see each other at the bus stop.
  12. Noun usage: That stop was not planned.
  13. Noun usage: The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled.
  14. Noun usage: The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of stop are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of stop, and guess at its most common usage.

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The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

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Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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