ALL meanings of stopping
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S s - noun stopping Phonetics. an articulation that interrupts the flow of air from the lungs. a consonant sound characterized by stop articulation, as p, b, t, d, k, and g. Compare continuant. 1
- noun stopping Photography. the diaphragm opening of a lens, especially as indicated by an f- number. 1
- noun stopping Building Trades. stop bead. doorstop (def 2). 1
- noun stopping any of various marks used as punctuation at the end of a sentence, especially a period. 1
- noun stopping the word “stop” printed in the body of a telegram or cablegram to indicate a period. 1
- noun stopping stops, (used with a singular verb) a family of card games whose object is to play all of one's cards in a predetermined sequence before one's opponents. 1
- noun stopping Zoology. a depression in the face of certain animals, especially dogs, marking the division between the forehead and the projecting part of the muzzle. 1
- verb with object stopping to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running. 1
- verb with object stopping to cause to cease; put an end to: to stop noise in the street. 1
- verb with object stopping to interrupt, arrest, or check (a course, proceeding, process, etc.): Stop your work just a minute. 1
- verb with object stopping to cut off, intercept, or withhold: to stop supplies. 1
- verb with object stopping to restrain, hinder, or prevent (usually followed by from): I couldn't stop him from going. 1
- verb with object stopping to prevent from proceeding, acting, operating, continuing, etc.: to stop a speaker; to stop a car. 1
- verb with object stopping to block, obstruct, or close (a passageway, channel, opening, duct, etc.) (usually followed by up): He stopped up the sink with a paper towel. He stopped the hole in the tire with a patch. 1
- verb with object stopping to fill the hole or holes in (a wall, a decayed tooth, etc.). 1
- verb with object stopping to close (a container, tube, etc.) with a cork, plug, bung, or the like. 1
- verb with object stopping to close the external orifice of (the ears, nose, mouth, etc.). 1
- verb with object stopping Sports. to check (a stroke, blow, etc.); parry; ward off. to defeat (an opposing player or team): The Browns stopped the Colts. Boxing. to defeat by a knockout or technical knockout: Louis stopped Conn in the 13th round. 1
- verb with object stopping Banking. to notify a bank to refuse payment of (a check) upon presentation. 1
- verb with object stopping Bridge. to have an honor card and a sufficient number of protecting cards to keep an opponent from continuing to win in (a suit). 1
- verb with object stopping Music. to close (a fingerhole) in order to produce a particular note from a wind instrument. to press down (a string of a violin, viola, etc.) in order to alter the pitch of the tone produced from it. to produce (a particular note) by so doing. 1
- verb without object stopping to come to a stand, as in a course or journey; halt. 1
- verb without object stopping to cease moving, proceeding, speaking, acting, operating, etc.; to pause; desist. 1
- verb without object stopping to cease; come to an end. 1
- verb without object stopping to halt for a brief visit (often followed by at, in, or by): He is stopping at the best hotel in town. 1
- verb without object stopping stop by, to make a brief visit on one's way elsewhere: I'll stop by on my way home. 1
- idioms stopping pull out all the stops, to use every means available. to express, do, or carry out something without reservation. 1
- noun stopping the act of stopping. 1
- noun stopping a cessation or arrest of movement, action, operation, etc.; end: The noise came to a stop. Put a stop to that behavior! 1
- noun stopping a stay or sojourn made at a place, as in the course of a journey: Above all, he enjoyed his stop in Trieste. 1
- noun stopping a place where trains or other vehicles halt to take on and discharge passengers: Is this a bus stop? 1
- noun stopping a closing or filling up, as of a hole. 1
- noun stopping a blocking or obstructing, as of a passage or channel. 1
- noun stopping a plug or other stopper for an opening. 1
- noun stopping an obstacle, impediment, or hindrance. 1
- noun stopping any piece or device that serves to check or control movement or action in a mechanism. 1
- noun stopping Architecture. a feature terminating a molding or chamfer. 1
- noun stopping Commerce. an order to refuse payment of a check. stop order. 1
- noun stopping Music. the act of closing a fingerhole or pressing a string of an instrument in order to produce a particular note. a device or contrivance, as on an instrument, for accomplishing this. (in an organ) a graduated set of pipes of the same kind and giving tones of the same quality. Also called stop knob. a knob or handle that is drawn out or pushed back to permit or prevent the sounding of such a set of pipes or to control some other part of the organ. (in a reed organ) a group of reeds functioning like a pipe-organ stop. 1
- noun stopping Sports. an individual defensive play or act that prevents an opponent or opposing team from scoring, advancing, or gaining an advantage, as a catch in baseball, a tackle in football, or the deflection of a shot in hockey. 1
- noun stopping Nautical. a piece of small line used to lash or fasten something, as a furled sail. 1
- noun stopping a dental filling 0
- noun stopping a solid barrier in a mine tunnel to seal off harmful gases, fire, fresh air from used air, etc 0
- adjective stopping making many stops in a journey 0