The difference between Desist and Stop

When used as verbs, desist means to cease to proceed or act, whereas stop means to cease moving.

Stop is also noun with the meaning: a (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.

Stop is also adverb with the meaning: prone to halting or hesitation.

Stop is also adjective with the meaning: being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

check bellow for the other definitions of Desist and Stop

  1. Desist as a verb (ambitransitive):

    To cease to proceed or act; to stop .

    Examples:

    "Please desist from telephoning me on this number."

  1. Stop as a verb (intransitive):

    To cease moving.

    Examples:

    "I stopped at the traffic lights."

  2. Stop as a verb (intransitive):

    To not continue.

    Examples:

    "The riots stopped when police moved in."

    "Soon the rain will stop."

  3. Stop as a verb (transitive):

    To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.

    Examples:

    "The sight of the armed men stopped him in his tracks."

    "This guy is a fraudster. I need to stop the cheque I wrote him."

  4. Stop as a verb (transitive):

    To cause (something) to come to an end.

    Examples:

    "The referees stopped the fight."

  5. Stop as a verb (transitive):

    To close or block an opening.

    Examples:

    "He stopped the wound with gauze."

  6. Stop as a verb (transitive, intransitive, photography, often with "up" or "down"):

    To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.

    Examples:

    "To achieve maximum depth of field, he stopped down to an f-stop of 22."

  7. Stop as a verb (intransitive):

    To stay; to spend a short time; to reside temporarily.

    Examples:

    "to stop with a friend"

    "He stopped for two weeks at the inn."

  8. Stop as a verb (intransitive):

    To tarry.

    Examples:

    "He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive."

  9. Stop as a verb (music):

    To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.

  10. Stop as a verb (obsolete):

    To punctuate.

  11. Stop as a verb (nautical):

    To make fast; to stopper.

  1. Stop as a noun:

    A (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: halt station"

    "They agreed to see each other at the bus stop."

  2. Stop as a noun:

    An action of stopping; interruption of travel.

    Examples:

    "That stop was not planned."

  3. Stop as a noun:

    A device intended to block the path of a moving object

    Examples:

    "usex door stop"

  4. Stop as a noun (linguistics):

    A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.

    Examples:

    "synonyms: plosive occlusive"

  5. Stop as a noun:

    A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.

  6. Stop as a noun:

    That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.

    Examples:

    "[[pull out all the stops Pull out all the stops]]."

  7. Stop as a noun (music):

    A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.

    Examples:

    "The organ is loudest when all the stops are pulled."

  8. Stop as a noun (tennis):

    A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.

  9. Stop as a noun (zoology):

    The depression in a dog's face between the skull and the nasal bones.

    Examples:

    "The stop in a bulldog's face is very marked."

  10. Stop as a noun (photography):

    An f-stop.

  11. Stop as a noun (engineering):

    A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.

  12. Stop as a noun (architecture):

    A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.

  13. Stop as a noun:

    The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.

  1. Stop as an adverb:

    Prone to halting or hesitation.

    Examples:

    "He’s stop still."

  1. Stop as a noun (UK, _, dialectal):

    A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.

  1. Stop as an adjective (physics):

    Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

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