Discourage vs. Stop

Discourageverb

(transitive) To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject.

Discourageverb

(transitive) To persuade somebody not to do (something).

Discouragenoun

(rare) Lack of courage

Discourageverb

To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; - the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.

Discourageverb

To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.

Discouragenoun

Lack of courage; cowardliness.

Discourageverb

try to prevent; show opposition to;

Discourageverb

deprive of courage or hope; take away hope from; cause to feel discouraged

Discourageverb

admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior;

Stopverb

(intransitive) To cease moving.

Stopverb

(intransitive) To not continue.

Stopverb

(transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.

Stopverb

(transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.

Stopverb

(transitive) To close or block an opening.

Stopverb

To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.

Stopverb

(intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.

Stopverb

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

Stopverb

(obsolete) To punctuate.

Stopverb

(nautical) To make fast; to stopper.

Stopnoun

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

Stopnoun

An action of stopping; interruption of travel.

Stopnoun

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

Stopnoun

A device intended to block the path of a moving object

Stopnoun

(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.

Stopnoun

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

Stopnoun

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

Stopnoun

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

Stopnoun

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

Stopnoun

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

Stopnoun

(zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.

Stopnoun

(photography) An f-stop.

Stopnoun

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

Stopnoun

A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.

Stopadverb

Prone to halting or hesitation.

Stopadjective

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

Stopverb

To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.

Stopverb

To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.

Stopverb

To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.

Stopverb

To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.

Stopverb

To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.

Stopverb

To point, as a composition; to punctuate.

Stopverb

To make fast; to stopper.

Stopverb

To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop.

Stopverb

To cease from any motion, or course of action.

Stopverb

To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend.

Stopnoun

The act of stopping, or the state of being stopped; hindrance of progress or of action; cessation; repression; interruption; check; obstruction.

Stopnoun

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

Stopnoun

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.

Stopnoun

The closing of an aperture in the air passage, or pressure of the finger upon the string, of an instrument of music, so as to modify the tone; hence, any contrivance by which the sounds of a musical instrument are regulated.

Stopnoun

In the organ, one of the knobs or handles at each side of the organist, by which he can draw on or shut off any register or row of pipes; the register itself; as, the vox humana stop.

Stopnoun

A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far.

Stopnoun

A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation.

Stopnoun

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

Stopnoun

The depression in the face of a dog between the skull and the nasal bones. It is conspicuous in the bulldog, pug, and some other breeds.

Stopnoun

Some part of the articulating organs, as the lips, or the tongue and palate, closed (a) so as to cut off the passage of breath or voice through the mouth and the nose (distinguished as a lip-stop, or a front-stop, etc., as in p, t, d, etc.), or (b) so as to obstruct, but not entirely cut off, the passage, as in l, n, etc.; also, any of the consonants so formed.

Stopnoun

the event of something ending;

Stopnoun

the act of stopping something;

Stopnoun

a brief stay in the course of a journey;

Stopnoun

the state of inactivity following an interruption;

Stopnoun

a spot where something halts or pauses;

Stopnoun

a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it;

Stopnoun

a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;

Stopnoun

(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes;

Stopnoun

a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens;

Stopnoun

a restraint that checks the motion of something;

Stopnoun

an obstruction in a pipe or tube;

Stopverb

come to a halt, stop moving;

Stopverb

put an end to a state or an activity;

Stopverb

stop from happening or developing;

Stopverb

interrupt a trip;

Stopverb

cause to stop;

Stopverb

prevent completion;

Stopverb

hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of;

Stopverb

seize on its way;

Stopverb

have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;

Stopverb

render unsuitable for passage;

Stopverb

stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;

Stopverb

(of an event, action, or process) come to an end; cease to happen

Stopverb

cease to perform a specified action or have a specified experience

Stopverb

abandon a specified practice or habit

Stopverb

stop moving or operating

Stopverb

(of a bus or train) call at a designated place to pick up or set down passengers

Stopverb

stay somewhere for a short time

Stopverb

cause (an action, process, or event) to come to an end

Stopverb

prevent (an action or event) from happening

Stopverb

prevent or dissuade (someone) from continuing in an activity or achieving an aim

Stopverb

prevent (someone or something) from performing a specified action or undergoing a specified experience

Stopverb

cause or order to cease moving or operating

Stopverb

be hit by (a bullet).

Stopverb

instruct a bank to withhold payment on (a cheque)

Stopverb

refuse to supply as usual; withhold or deduct

Stopverb

defeat (an opponent) by a knockout

Stopverb

pinch back (a plant).

Stopverb

block or close up (a hole or leak)

Stopverb

put a filling in (a tooth).

Stopverb

block the mouth of (a fox's earth) prior to a hunt.

Stopverb

plug the upper end of (an organ pipe), giving a note an octave lower.

Stopverb

obtain the required pitch from (the string of a violin or similar instrument) by pressing at the appropriate point with the finger.

Stopverb

make (a rope) fast with a stopper.

Stopverb

be or behave in a particular way

Stopverb

remain in a particular state or condition

Stopnoun

a cessation of movement or operation

Stopnoun

a break or halt during a journey

Stopnoun

a place designated for a bus or train to halt and pick up or set down passengers

Stopnoun

an object or part of a mechanism which is used to prevent something from moving

Stopnoun

a punctuation mark, especially a full stop.

Stopnoun

used in telegrams to indicate a full stop

Stopnoun

a consonant produced with complete closure of the vocal tract

Stopnoun

a high card that prevents the opponents from establishing a particular suit; a control

Stopnoun

a short length of rope used to secure something; a stopper.

Stopnoun

a set of organ pipes of a particular tone and range of pitch.

Stopnoun

a knob, lever, or similar device in an organ or harpsichord which brings into play a set of pipes or strings of a particular tone and range of pitch.

Stopnoun

the effective diameter of a lens.

Stopnoun

a device for reducing the effective diameter of a lens.

Stopnoun

a unit of change of relative aperture or exposure (with a reduction of one stop equivalent to halving it).