STOP

as a man all too easily specializes in stops he tends to stress what shouldn't be done. While this enters into it, remember that it's a stop. Stops all occur because of failed purposes. Behind every stop there is a failed purpose. A stuck picture or a motionless org are similar. Each has behind it a failed purpose. (HCO PL 14 Jan 69) Stop

in a pipe organ, a graduated set of pipes of the same kind, producing tones of the same quality. An organ normally has several such sets of pipes, each set constructed to produce a different quality of sound. Stop also refers to the knob or handle that controls the activation of one of these sets of pipesTwhen the knob or handle is pulled, the organ's keys are connected up to the corresponding set of pipes. The organist can produce different qualities of sound by using the different stops or combinations of stops. Though electronic organs use electronic devices instead of pipes to generate sound, the term stop is still used to refer to the knob, lever or handle which activates a particular sound generator or set of generators producing tones of the same quality. And of course, what an organist has to know who is up in the field of engineering and design and so forthTthis circus organist, Kit Francis, for instance, hasn't any "stop." - Studying Data Assimilation (9 July 64) in a pipe organ, a graduated (arranged in a series of steps, as from shortest to longest) set of pipes which produce lower to higher tones of the same quality. An organ normally has several such sets of pipes, each set constructed to produce a different quality of sound. For example, some stops sound like flutes, some sound like horns, some sound like stringed instruments, etc. Stop also refers to the knob or handle that controls the activation of one of these sets of pipes-when the knob or handle is pulled, the organ's keys are connected up to the corresponding set of pipes. The organist can produce different qualities of sound by using the different stops or combinations of stops. Though electronic organs use electronic devices instead of pipes to generate sound, the term stop is still used to refer to the knob, lever or handle which activates a particular sound generator or set of generators producing tones of the same quality. "Well, actually the stops on his organ do not agree, I'm sure, with what it says on the stops and he's pulled out most of the stops-he's thrown them away.

1. motionlessness. (SCP, p. 17)2. a stop is made out of vias. (COHA, p. 108)