To have an effect (on).
Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
To perform a theatrical role.
To play (a role).
To convey an appearance of being.
To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).
To feign.
To do something.
To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
A product of a legislative body, a statute.
A display of behaviour.
A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
A division of a theatrical performance.
Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
Any organized activity.
A performer or performers in a show.
A formal or official record of something done.
The process of doing something.
A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
Something done, a deed.
To cause (something) to come to an end.
To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.
To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
To cease moving.
To end someone else's activity.
To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
To make fast; to stopper.
To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later.
To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
To close or block an opening.
Not to continue.
Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.
An f-stop.
A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
A coup d'arret, or stop thrust.
A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.
A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.
The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
A device intended to block the path of a moving object
The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
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.
A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.