The difference between Go and Stop

When used as nouns, go means the act of going, whereas stop means a (usually marked) place where line buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.

When used as verbs, go means to move through space (especially to or through a place), whereas stop means to cease moving.

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 Go and Stop

Go as a verb (intransitive):

To move: To move through space (especially to or through a place). To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc). To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion). To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving. To leave; to move away. To walk; to travel on one's feet.

Examples:

"Why don’t you go with us? This train goes through Cincinnati on its way to Chicago. Chris, where are you going? There's no public transit where I'm going. Wow, look at him go!"

"Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell."

"Fans want to see the Twelfth Doctor go to the 51st century to visit River in the library."

"We've only gone twenty miles today. This car can go circles around that one."

"We went swimming. Let's go shopping."

"Please don't go! I really must be going. Workmen were coming and going at all hours of the night."
Go as a verb (intransitive, chiefly, of a, machine):

To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required).

Examples:

"The engine just won't go anymore."
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To start; to begin (an action or process).

Examples:

"Get ready, get set, go! [[on your marks, get set, go On your marks, get set, go]]! [[on your marks On your marks]], set, go!"

"Here goes nothing. Let's go and hunt."
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To take a turn, especially in a game.

Examples:

"It’s your turn; go."
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To attend.

Examples:

"I go to school at the schoolhouse. She went to Yale. They only go to church on Christmas."
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To proceed: To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state). To proceed (especially to do something foolish).

Examples:

"That went well. "How are things going?" "Not bad, thanks."

"Why'd you have to go and do that?"

"Why'd you have to go do that?"

"He just went and punched the guy. "
Go as a verb:

To follow or travel along (a path): To follow or proceed according to (a course or path). To travel or pass along.

Examples:

"Let's go this way for a while."

"She was going that way anyway, so she offered to show him where it was."
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To extend (from one point in time or space to another).

Examples:

"This property goes all the way to the state line."
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To lead (to a place); to give access to.

Examples:

"Does this road go to Fort Smith?"
Go as a verb (copula):

To become.

Examples:

"You'll go blind. I went crazy / went mad. After failing as a criminal, he decided to go straight."
Go as a verb:

To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as.
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To continuously or habitually be in a state.

Examples:

"I don't want my children to go hungry. We went barefoot in the summer."
Go as a verb:

To come to (a certain condition or state).

Examples:

"they went into debt'', ''she goes to sleep around 10 o'clock'', ''the local shop wants to go digital, and eventually go global"
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend.

Examples:

" The traffic light went straight from green to red."
Go as a verb:

To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result).

Examples:

"How did your meeting with Smith go?"
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To tend (toward a result).

Examples:

"Well, that goes to show you. These experiences go to make us stronger."
Go as a verb:

To contribute to a (specified) end product or result.

Examples:

"qualities that go to make a lady / lip-reader / sharpshooter"
Go as a verb (intransitive, of time):

To pass, to be used up: To elapse, to pass; to slip away. To end or disappear. To be spent or used up.

Examples:

"The time went slowly."

"After three days, my headache finally went."

"His money went on drink."
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To die.
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To be discarded.

Examples:

"This chair has got to go."
Go as a verb (intransitive, cricket):

To be lost or out: To be lost. To be out.
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To break down or apart: To collapse or give way, to break apart. To break down or decay.

Examples:

"This meat is starting to go off. My mind is going. She's 83; her eyesight is starting to go."
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To be sold.

Examples:

"Everything must go. The car went for five thousand dollars."
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted.

Examples:

"The property shall go to my wife. The award went to Steven Spielberg."
Go as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time.

Examples:

"How long can you go without water? We've gone without your help for a while now. I've gone ten days now without a cigarette. Can you two go twenty minutes without arguing?!"
Go as a verb (transitive, sports):

To have a certain record.

Examples:

"They've gone one for three in this series. The team is going five in a row."
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To be authoritative, accepted, or valid: To have (final) authority; to be authoritative. To be accepted. To be valid.

Examples:

"Whatever the boss says goes, do you understand?"

"Anything goes around here."
Go as a verb (transitive, slang):

To say (something), to make a sound: To say (something, aloud or to oneself). To make the (specified) sound. To sound; to make a noise.

Examples:

"I go, "As if!" And she was all like, "Whatever!"

"As soon as I did it, I went "that was stupid."

"Cats go "meow". Motorcycles go "vroom"."

"I woke up just before the clock went."
Go as a verb:

To be expressed or composed (a certain way).

Examples:

"The tune goes like this. As the story goes, he got the idea for the song while sitting in traffic."
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To resort (to).

Examples:

"I'll go to court if I have to."
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To apply or subject oneself to: To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something). To work (through or over), especially mentally.

Examples:

"I'm going to join a sports team.'' ''I wish you'd go and get a job.'' ''He went to pick it up, but it rolled out of reach."

"He's going to leave town tomorrow''."

"You didn't have to go to such trouble. I never thought he'd go so far as to call you. She went to great expense to help them win."

"I've gone over this a hundred times. Let's not go into that right now."
Go as a verb (intransitive, often followed by a preposition):

To fit (in a place, or together with something): To fit. To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink. To belong (somewhere).

Examples:

"Do you think the sofa will go through the door? The belt just barely went around his waist."

"This shade of red doesn't go with the drapes. White wine goes better with fish than red wine."

"My shirts go on this side of the wardrobe. This piece of the jigsaw goes on the other side."
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To date.

Examples:

"How long having they been going together? He's been going with her for two weeks."
Go as a verb (intransitive):

To attack: To fight or attack. To attack.

Examples:

"I went at him with a knife."
Go as a verb:

To be in general; to be usually.

Examples:

"As sentences go, this one is pretty boring."
Go as a verb (transitive):

To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of.

Examples:

"Let's go halves on this."
Go as a verb (transitive):

To yield or weigh.

Examples:

"Those babies go five tons apiece."
Go as a verb (transitive, intransitive):

To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay.

Examples:

"That's as high as I can go. We could go two fifty."

"I'll go a ten-spot. I'll go you a shilling."
Go as a verb (transitive, colloquial):

To enjoy.

Examples:

"I could go a beer right about now."
Go as a verb (intransitive, colloquial):

To urinate or defecate.

Examples:

"I really need to go. Have you managed to go today, Mrs. Miggins?"

Go as a noun (uncommon):

The act of going.
Go as a noun:

A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game).

Examples:

"You’ve been on that pinball machine long enough—now let your brother have a go."

"It’s your go."
Go as a noun:

An attempt, a try.

Examples:

"I’ll give it a go."
Go as a noun:

An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved.

Examples:

"We will begin as soon as the boss says it's a go."
Go as a noun:

An act; the working or operation.
Go as a noun (slang, dated):

A circumstance or occurrence; an incident.
Go as a noun (dated):

The fashion or mode.

Examples:

"quite the go"
Go as a noun (dated):

Noisy merriment.

Examples:

"a high go"
Go as a noun (slang, archaic):

A glass of spirits; a quantity of spirits.
Go as a noun:

Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance.

Examples:

"There is no go in him."
Go as a noun (cribbage):

The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one.
Go as a noun:

A period of activity.

Examples:

"ate it all in one go"
Go as a noun (obsolete, British slang):

A dandy; a fashionable person.

Go as a noun (board game):

A strategic board game, originally from China, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters.

Stop as a verb (intransitive):

To cease moving.

Examples:

"I stopped at the traffic lights."
Stop as a verb (intransitive):

To not continue.

Examples:

"The riots stopped when police moved in."

"Soon the rain will stop."
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."
Stop as a verb (transitive):

To cause (something) to come to an end.

Examples:

"The referees stopped the fight."
Stop as a verb (transitive):

To close or block an opening.

Examples:

"He stopped the wound with gauze."
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."
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."
Stop as a verb (intransitive):

To tarry.

Examples:

"He stopped at his friend's house before continuing with his drive."
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.
Stop as a verb (obsolete):

To punctuate.
Stop as a verb (nautical):

To make fast; to stopper.

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."
Stop as a noun:

An action of stopping; interruption of travel.

Examples:

"That stop was not planned."
Stop as a noun:

A device intended to block the path of a moving object

Examples:

"usex door stop"
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"
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.
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]]."
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."
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.
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."
Stop as a noun (photography):

An f-stop.
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.
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.
Stop as a noun:

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

Stop as an adverb:

Prone to halting or hesitation.

Examples:

"He’s stop still."

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

A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.

Stop as an adjective (physics):

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

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