stop

[stop] 1. past tense, past participle - stopped; verb

1) (to (make something) cease moving, or come to rest, a halt etc: He stopped the car and got out; This train does not stop at Birmingham; He stopped to look at the map; He signalled with his hand to stop the bus.) zastavit (se)

2) (to prevent from doing something: We must stop him (from) going; I was going to say something rude but stopped myself just in time.) zabránit; zastavit (se)

3) (to discontinue or cease eg doing something: That woman just can't stop talking; The rain has stopped; It has stopped raining.) přestat

4) (to block or close: He stopped his ears with his hands when she started to shout at him.) zacpat

5) (to close (a hole, eg on a flute) or press down (a string on a violin etc) in order to play a particular note.) stisknout; zmáčknout

6) (to stay: Will you be stopping long at the hotel?) zůstat

2. noun

1) (an act of stopping or state of being stopped: We made only two stops on our journey; Work came to a stop for the day.) zastavení

2) (a place for eg a bus to stop: a bus stop.) zastávka

3) (in punctuation, a full stop: Put a stop at the end of the sentence.) tečka

4) (a device on a flute etc for covering the holes in order to vary the pitch, or knobs for bringing certain pipes into use on an organ.) klapka, rejstřík

5) (a device, eg a wedge etc, for stopping the movement of something, or for keeping it in a fixed position: a door-stop.) klín, zarážka

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- stoppage

- stopper
- stopping
- stopcock
- stopgap
- stopwatch
- put a stop to
- stop at nothing
- stop dead
- stop off
- stop over
- stop up

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• zadržet

• zastavit se

• zastávka

• zastavovat

• zastavení

• zarážka

• zastav

• potlačit

• přestat

• překážka

• přestávat

• stopnout

• tečka

• stop

• doraz