The difference between Stay and Stop

When used as nouns, stay means continuance or a period of time spent in a place, 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 adverbs, stay means steeply, whereas stop means prone to halting or hesitation.

When used as verbs, stay means to prop, whereas stop means to cease moving.

When used as adjectives, stay means steep, whereas stop means being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

check bellow for the other definitions of Stay and Stop

  1. Stay as a verb (transitive):

    To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady.

  2. Stay as a verb (transitive):

    To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time.

  3. Stay as a verb (transitive):

    To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder.

  4. Stay as a verb (transitive):

    To restrain; withhold; check; stop.

  5. Stay as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to cease; to put an end to.

  6. Stay as a verb (transitive):

    To put off; defer; postpone; delay; keep back.

    Examples:

    "The governor stayed the execution until the appeal could be heard."

  7. Stay as a verb (transitive):

    To hold the attention of.

  8. Stay as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To bear up under; to endure; to hold out against; to resist.

  9. Stay as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To wait for; await.

  10. Stay as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To remain for the purpose of; to wait for.

  11. Stay as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To rest; depend; rely.

  12. Stay as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To stop; come to a stand or standstill.

  13. Stay as a verb (intransitive, archaic):

    To come to an end; cease.

    Examples:

    "That day the storm stayed."

  14. Stay as a verb (intransitive, archaic):

    To dwell; linger; tarry; wait.

  15. Stay as a verb (intransitive, dated):

    To make a stand; to stand firm.

  16. Stay as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To hold out, as in a race or contest; last or persevere to the end.

    Examples:

    "That horse stays well."

  17. Stay as a verb (intransitive):

    To remain in a particular place, especially for a definite or short period of time; sojourn; abide.

    Examples:

    "We stayed in Hawaii for a week.  I can only stay for an hour."

  18. Stay as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):

    To wait; rest in patience or expectation.

  19. Stay as a verb (intransitive, obsolete, used with ''on'' or ''upon''):

    To wait as an attendant; give ceremonious or submissive attendance.

  20. Stay as a verb (intransitive):

    To continue to have a particular quality.

    Examples:

    "Wear gloves so your hands stay warm."

  21. Stay as a verb (intransitive, US South, AAVE, colloquial, non-standard):

    To live; reside

    Examples:

    "Hey, where do you stay at?"

  1. Stay as a noun:

    Continuance or a period of time spent in a place; abode for an indefinite time; sojourn.

    Examples:

    "I hope you enjoyed your stay in Hawaii."

  2. Stay as a noun:

    A postponement, especially of an execution or other punishment.

    Examples:

    "The governor granted a stay of execution."

  3. Stay as a noun (archaic):

    A stop; a halt; a break or cessation of action, motion, or progress.

    Examples:

    "stand at a stay"

  4. Stay as a noun:

    A fixed state; fixedness; stability; permanence.

  5. Stay as a noun (nautical):

    A station or fixed anchorage for vessels.

  6. Stay as a noun:

    Restraint of passion; prudence; moderation; caution; steadiness; sobriety.

  7. Stay as a noun (obsolete):

    Hindrance; let; check.

  1. Stay as a noun:

    A prop; a support.

  2. Stay as a noun:

    A piece of stiff material, such as plastic or whalebone, used to stiffen a piece of clothing.

    Examples:

    "Where are the stays for my collar?"

  3. Stay as a noun:

    (plural) A corset

  4. Stay as a noun (archaic):

    A fastening for a garment; a hook; a clasp; anything to hang another thing on.

  1. Stay as a noun (nautical):

    A strong rope supporting a mast, and leading from one masthead down to some other, or other part of the vessel.

  2. Stay as a noun:

    A guy, rope, or wire supporting or stabilizing a platform, such as a bridge, a pole, such as a tentpole, the mast of a derrick, or other structural element.

    Examples:

    "The engineer insisted on using stays for the scaffolding."

  3. Stay as a noun (chain-cable):

    The transverse piece in a link.

  1. Stay as a verb:

    To brace or support with a stay or stays

    Examples:

    "stay a mast"

  2. Stay as a verb (transitive, nautical):

    To incline forward, aft, or to one side by means of stays.

  3. Stay as a verb (transitive, nautical):

    To tack; put on the other tack.

    Examples:

    "to stay ship"

  4. Stay as a verb (intransitive, nautical):

    To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.

  1. Stay as an adjective (UK, _, dialectal):

    Steep; ascending.

  2. Stay as an adjective (UK, _, dialectal):

    Steeply pitched.

  3. Stay as an adjective (UK, _, dialectal):

    Difficult to negotiate; not easy to access; sheer.

  4. Stay as an adjective (UK, _, dialectal):

    Stiff; upright; unbending; reserved; haughty; proud.

  1. Stay as an adverb (UK, _, dialectal):

    Steeply.

  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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