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stop (EN)
verb, noun

verb “stop”

stop; he stops; past stopped, part. stopped; ger. stopping
  1. නවතී
    The train stopped at the station to pick up passengers.
  2. නවත්වනවා
    She stopped the car to let the pedestrians cross.
  3. නවතින්න
    He stopped working at six o'clock and went home.
  4. වළක්වන්න
    We need to stop the spread of the disease.
  5. වැසීම
    He used a rag to stop the leak in the pipe.
  6. විවරය සකසන්න
    She stopped down the lens to f/16 to increase the depth of field.
  7. සරය මත ඔබන්න
    The guitarist stopped the string to play a higher note.
  8. නවතා හඩන්න
    In some accents, speakers stop the "t" sound in "water".

noun “stop”

sg. stop, pl. stops
  1. නවතාම
    She waited at the bus stop for her ride home.
  2. නවත්වීම
    They made a quick stop at the store to buy supplies.
  3. බාධාව
    The roadblock was a stop to all traffic entering the area.
  4. නවතාම උපකරණය
    He installed door stops to prevent the doors from slamming shut.
  5. ආලෝකය මිනුම් ඒකකය
    Increasing the exposure by one stop made the photo brighter.
  6. නවතා හඩ
    The word "top" starts and ends with stop consonants.
  7. වායු නියාමකය
    The organist pulled out all the stops for the final piece.
  8. සම්පූර්ණ නවතාම
    Be sure to place a stop at the end of each sentence.
  9. නවතාම (රේඩියෝ සන්නිවේදනයේ)
    The radio operator said, "Message received. Stop." to indicate the end of the sentence.
  10. ගෝලය වැළැක්වීම
    The goalkeeper's brilliant stop kept his team in the game.
  11. ස්ටොප් (උපකල්පිත කණිකාව)
    Scientists are searching for evidence of the stop in particle accelerators.