Noun

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. The event of something ending
3. The act of stopping something
4. A brief stay in the course of a journey
5. The state of inactivity following an interruption
6. A spot where something halts or pauses
7. A consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
8. A punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
9. (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
10. A mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
11. A restraint that checks the motion of something
12. An obstruction in a pipe or tube

Verb

1. Come to a halt, stop moving
2. Put an end to a state or an activity
3. Stop from happening or developing
4. Interrupt a trip
5. Cause to stop
6. Prevent completion
7. Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
8. Seize on its way
9. Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
10. Render unsuitable for passage
11. Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments