The difference between Stop and Termination

When used as nouns, 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, whereas termination means the process of terminating or the state of being terminated.

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

Stop is also verb with the meaning: to cease moving.

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 Stop and Termination

  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.

  1. Termination as a noun:

    The process of terminating or the state of being terminated.

  2. Termination as a noun:

    The process of firing an employee; ending one's employment at a business for any reason.

  3. Termination as a noun:

    An end in time; a conclusion.

  4. Termination as a noun:

    An end in space; an edge or limit.

  5. Termination as a noun:

    An outcome or result.

  6. Termination as a noun:

    The last part of a word; an ending, a desinence; a suffix.

  7. Termination as a noun (medical):

    An induced abortion.

  8. Termination as a noun (obsolete, rare):

    A word, a term.

  9. Termination as a noun:

    The ending up of a polypeptid chain.

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