The difference between Quarter and Stop

When used as nouns, quarter means a quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents, 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, quarter means to divide into quarters, whereas stop means to cease moving.

When used as adjectives, quarter means pertaining to an aspect of a quarter, whereas stop means being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

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

check bellow for the other definitions of Quarter and Stop

  1. Quarter as an adjective:

    Pertaining to an aspect of a quarter.

  2. Quarter as an adjective (chiefly):

    Consisting of a fourth part, a quarter (1/4, 25%).

    Examples:

    "a quarter hour; a quarter century; a quarter note; a quarter pound"

  3. Quarter as an adjective (chiefly):

    Related to a three-month term, a quarter of a year.

    Examples:

    "A quarter day is one terminating a quarter of the year."

    "A quarter session is one held quarterly at the end of a quarter."

  1. Quarter as a noun (now, _, primarily, financial):

    Any fourth of something, particularly: A quarter-dollar, divided into 25 cents; the coin of that value minted in the United States or Canada. A quarter of the year, 3 months; a season. The quarter-ton or tun, divided into 8 bushels, the medieval English unit of volume and weight named by the Magna Carta as the basis for measures of wine, ale, and grain The quarter-yard, divided into 4 nails, an obsolete English unit of length long used in the cloth trade The watch: A quarter of the night, nominally 3 hours but varying over the year. A charge occupying a fourth of a coat of arms, larger than a canton and normally on the upper dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top meeting a horizontal line from the side. A period into which a game is divided. . quarterfinal

  2. Quarter as a noun (usually plural):

    Any substantial fraction of something less than half, particularly: A division or section of a town or other area, whether or not it constituted a fourth of the whole. A living place, from which: # A quartermaster; a quartermaster sergeant. #* |title=No More Parades|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2012|chapter=Parade's End|page=360|passage=Tietjens said: ‘Send the Canadian sergeant-major to me at the double….' to the quarter.}} # Amity, friendship, concord; accommodation given to a defeated opponent, mercy. #* #* and yet kept good quarter between themselves.}} #* The part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, the side of its coffin. The aftmost part of a vessel's side, roughly from the last mast to the stern.

  1. Quarter as a verb (transitive):

    To divide into quarters; to divide by four.

  2. Quarter as a verb (transitive):

    To provide housing for military personnel or other equipment.

    Examples:

    "'Quarter the horses in the third stable."

  3. Quarter as a verb (intransitive):

    To lodge; to have a temporary residence.

  4. Quarter as a verb (transitive):

    To quartersaw.

  1. Quarter as a verb (obsolete):

    To drive a carriage so as to prevent the wheels from going into the ruts, or so that a rut shall be between the wheels.

  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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