Stop the show

Definition

stop / stɒp / v ( -pp- ) ၁။ ရပ္သည္။ stop a taxi ❍ Rain stopped play (eg in cricket). ❍ Can you stop the printer once it's started? ❍ Stop the car a minute, I want to look in that shop. ❍ I had to stop somebody in the street to ask the way. ၂။ ရပ္သည္။ စဲသည္။ stop work ❍ Stop it (ie Do not do that)! ❍ He never stops talking. ❍ She's stopped smoking. ❍ Will you stop making that awful noise! ❍ Has it stopped raining yet? ၃။ ~ sb/sth (from) doing sth တားသည္။ ဟန္႔သည္။ တိတ္သည္။ I'm sure he'll go, there's nothing to stop him. ❍ You can't stop our going / us (from) going if we want to. ❍ I only just managed to stop myself from shouting at him. ❍ We bandaged his wound but couldn't stop it bleeding/ stop the bleeding. ၄။ (က) ရပ္သည္။ What's the time? My watch has stopped. ❍ Does this train stop at Oxford? ❍ His heart has stopped. ❍ The problem with her is that she doesn't know where/ when to stop (ie does not know when sth is no longer amusing, is offensive, etc and should not be continued). (ခ) ရပ္သည္။ တန္႔သည္။ We stopped for a while to admire the scenery. ❍ She never stopped to consider that others might object. ❍ She stopped dead (ie stopped suddenly and completely) when she saw me. ❍ AND ၅။ ~ sth (up) (with sth) ပိတ္သည္။ ဆို႔သည္။ stop a leak in a pipe/ a gap in a hedge ❍ stop one's ears ( ie cover them with one's hands to avoid hearing sth) ၆။ တားသည္။ ရပ္ဆိုင္းထားသည္။ stop a cheque (ie order a bank not to exchange it for cash) ❍ stop sb's wages. ၇။ ( infml esp Brit ) ေနသည္။ နားသည္။ Are you stopping (for supper)? ❍ We stopped at a campsite for a week. n [C] ၁။ ရပ္ျခင္း။ make a short stop on a journey ❍ Winchester will be the next stop. ေရွ႕ရပ္မွာဝင္ခ်က္စတာ ပဲ။ ❍ The lift came to a stop on the second floor. ၂။ ဘူတာ။ မွတ္တိုင္။ Which stop do I get off at? ❍ Is this a request stop? See also BUS-STOP, PIT STOP ၃။ ဝါက် အဆံုးသေကၤတ။ ၄။ (က) ( music ) ေအာ္ဂင္၊ ဒံုမင္း စေသာ တူရိယာမ်ဳိးတြင္ အတြဲလိုက္တီးမႈတ္ရေသာ ေလႁပြန္(သို႔) ႀကိဳးမ်ား။ (ခ) ႏွဲ၊ ပေလြစသည္တြင္ ဗ်ည္းေပါက္၊ သရေပါက္။ ၅။ ( phonetics ) p,b,k,g,t,d စေသာ႐ုန္းပြင့္သံ။ See also DOORSTOP ❏ stop by; stop round [ PHRV ] ခဏတစ္ျဖဳတ္ဝင္သည္။ Ask him to stop by for a drink. ❏ stop-go n ( Brit finance ) ဖြင့္တံုပိတ္တံု(ဝါဒ)။ a government's stop -go economic policy. ❏ stop in [ PHRV ] ( Brit ) အိမ္ျပင္မထြက္။ I wasn't feeling well on Friday night so I stopped in. ❏ stop light n ၁။ ယာဥ္အခ်က္ျပမီးနီ။ ၂။ ( US ) =BRAKE LIGHT ❏ stop off (at/in …) [ PHRV ] ေခတၱဝင္သည္။ stop off at the pub on the way home. ❏ stop out [ PHRV ]( Brit ) အိမ္မျပန္ဘဲေနသည္။ stop out until three o'clock in the morning. ❏ stop over ( at/in… ) [ PHRV ] ခရီးတစ္ေထာက္နားသည္။ stop over in Rome for two days en route for the Middle East. ❏ stopping train n ( Brit ) ၾကားဘူတာမ်ား၌ ရပ္ေသာ မီးရထား။ ❏ stop press n [U] ( Brit ) စက္ရပ္သတင္း။ a stop-press announcement/ report. ❏ stop the rot [ IDM ] ဆည္တံ့သည္။ အဖတ္ဆယ္သည္။ After a string of defeats they have stopped the rot with a convincing win. ❏ stop round [ PHRV ] = STOP BY ❏ stop (sb) short [ IDM ] တန္႔သည္။ ဟန္႔သည္။ He stopped short when he heard his name called. ❍ I stopped him short before he could say any more. ❏ stop short of sth/doing sth [ IDM ] ရပ္တန္းကရပ္ သည္။ ဘရိတ္အုပ္သည္။ ကိုယ္ရိွန္သတ္သည္။ He suspected his boss of acting dishonestly but stopped short of accusing him of anything. ❏ stop the show [ IDM ] ဆက္မကႏိုင္ေလာက္ေအာင္ လက္ခုပ္ ဩဘာသံမ်ား လႊမ္းသြားသည္။ ❏ stop up [ PHRV ] ညဥ့္နက္သန္းေခါင္ေနသည္။ stop up (late) to watch a film on TV.

Examples

1. Policies like this aren’t going to stop crime.
2. [stop someone (from) doing something] : A broken leg won’t stop me from going to the concert.
3. [there’s nothing to stop you] : There’s nothing to stop you from asking him. He might agree.
4. Did you stop the cheque?
5. We stopped work and went for a drink.
6. [stop doing something] : I want to stop smoking.
7. Suddenly everyone stopped talking.
8. When the rain stops
9. I’m going out.
10. The car stopped at the traffic lights.
11. Lots of people stopped and stared at the accident.
12. I stopped a woman and asked her for directions.
13. He was stopped for speeding.
14. [stop at] : Does the train stop at Nice?
15. He stopped and listened before opening the door.
16. Did you ever stop to think what might happen?
17. [stop to do something] : I stopped to get a drink of water.
18. [stop for] : I stopped at the shop for some cheese.
19. My watch has stopped.
20. Can you stop the engine?
21. Have you got time to stop for a cup of coffee?
22. [stop the night] : I stopped the night with Tom.