Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of one who or that which stops, in any sense. Specifically— The process of filling cracks or fissures, as in an oil-painting, with a composition preparatory to restoring; also, the material used in the process.
- n. In etching. See to stop out , under stop, transitive verb
- n. The act or process of altering the pitch of the tones of a musical instrument in any of the ways described under stop, transitive verb, 10.
- n. Something that stops. Specifically— In mining, any solid wall or brattice built across a passage in a mine, to shut out the air from the goaves, or to limit it to certain passages, or to keep the gas confined, or for any other purpose.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of stop.
- n. Material for filling a cavity.
- n. mining A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
- n. A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Material for filling a cavity.
- n. (Mining) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
- n. (Far.) A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
WordNet 3.0
- n. fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
- n. the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch
Examples
“Though one has to be careful of the term stopping the march of the supermarkets.”
“Less than a month later, Drayton would successfully defend his title stopping Moroccan born Said Skouma, (22-4), of France, in the”
“Here was a man who devotes his life to what he describes as stopping the mass killings of babies chastising an event for including someone in our program who wants to stop the mass killings of gays and lesbians.”
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“As often happens, it wasn't clear that the bad guys 'conspiracy made sense (and even less clear how the Doctor had got involved in stopping it; or for that matter where the cat's cradle of the title comes into it) but I very much enjoyed the ride.”
“But the strategy we have to use in stopping them is shaming and brow-beating the fat, retarded knuckle-draggers who buy every single issue of the "Summer Event".”
“My own report, to be published shortly, will conclusively prove police discrimination in stopping sword slashing paranoid-schizophrenics 50 times more regularly than those in the general population, demanding the end of this prejudiced practice.”
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“If you begin stopping at the Johnstown equivalents while going from PHL to PIT, you quickly dissipate much of the value that HSR might have had for PHL-PIT travelers.”
“These two injuries, though, are definitely a concern as both Taylor and Whitley are vital in stopping Georgia Tech's dynamic option attack.”
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“I raised my hand to volunteer my time and to see what the heck was the hold up in stopping the spill and what was slowing the clean-up.”
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“The difference in stopping power compared to standard cantilevers is huge.”
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Lists
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Beautiful Music
a cappella, accelerando, accompagnato, adagio, ad libitum, agitato, aleatory, alla breve, allegro, allemande, alto, andante and 548 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
Tweets
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misterpolly Double stopping - playing two notes on a violin (or the like) on two adjacent strings. Feb 13, 2008
oroboros Hey, thanks for stopping; and here's your bonus shopping premium: Reversed History: In some time past, everyone with the same name was the same person. (Come again.)
--Jan Cox Oct 14, 2007