Are you trying to hyphenate stops? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.
| 1. |
A gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck) A player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops The player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card |
| 2. |
Come to a halt, stop moving The car stopped She stopped in front of a store window |
| 3. |
Put an end to a state or an activity Quit teasing your little brother |
| 4. |
Stop from happening or developing Block his election Halt the process |
| 5. |
Interrupt a trip We stopped at Aunt Mary's house They stopped for three days in Florence |
| 6. |
Cause to stop Stop a car Stop the thief |
| 7. |
Prevent completion Stop the project Break off the negotiations |
| 8. |
Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy Check the expansion or influence of Arrest the downward trend Check the growth of communism in South East Asia Contain the rebel movement Turn back the tide of communism |
| 9. |
Seize on its way The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace |
| 10. |
Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense Either spatial or metaphorical The bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other My property ends by the bushes The symphony ends in a pianissimo |
| 11. |
Render unsuitable for passage Block the way Barricade the streets Stop the busy road |
| 12. |
Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments Hold on a moment! |
| noun | Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, card game, cards |
| noun | stop, halt, ending, conclusion, finish |
| noun | stop, stoppage, act, human action, human activity
|
| noun | stop, stopover, layover, stay |
| noun | arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage, inaction, inactivity, inactiveness |
| noun | stop, topographic point, place, spot |
| noun | stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive, consonant |
| noun | period, point, full stop, stop, full point, punctuation, punctuation mark
|
| noun | stop, knob |
| noun | diaphragm, stop, mechanical device
|
| noun | catch, stop, restraint, constraint |
| noun | blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stop, stoppage, obstruction, obstructor, obstructer, impediment, impedimenta |