Crossword clues for stopping
stopping
- Prevent completion
- Cause to stop
- Stop from happening or developing
- Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- Come to a halt, stop moving
- The kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch
- Fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
- Interrupt a trip
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stop \Stop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stopping.] [OE. stoppen, AS. stoppian (in comp.); akin to LG. & D. stoppen, G. stopfen, Icel. stoppa, Sw. stoppa, Dan. stoppe; all probably fr. LL. stopare, stupare, fr. L. stuppa the coarse part of flax, tow, oakum. Cf. Estop, Stuff, Stupe a fomentation.]
To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
--Shak.To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.
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To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.
Whose disposition all the world well knows Will not be rubbed nor stopped.
--Shak. (Mus.) To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.
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To point, as a composition; to punctuate. [R.]
If his sentences were properly stopped.
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(Naut.) To make fast; to stopper.
Syn: To obstruct; hinder; impede; repress; suppress; restrain; discontinue; delay; interrupt.
To stop off (Founding), to fill (a part of a mold) with sand, where a part of the cavity left by the pattern is not wanted for the casting.
To stop the mouth. See under Mouth.
Stopping \Stop"ping\, n.
Material for filling a cavity.
(Mining) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
(Far.) A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
--Youatt.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of something that stops; a halt. 2 Material for filling a cavity. 3 (context mining English) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air. 4 A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist. vb. (present participle of stop English)
WordNet
n. the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill" [syn: halt]
the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood" [syn: stoppage]
a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a stopover to visit their friends" [syn: stopover, layover]
the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stoppage]
a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is Atlanta"
a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are too aspirated" [syn: stop consonant, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive] [ant: continuant consonant]
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop" [syn: period, point, full stop, full point]
(music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes; "the organist pulled out all the stops"
a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the diaphragm automatically" [syn: diaphragm]
a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a book as a stop to hold the door open" [syn: catch]
an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" [syn: blockage, block, closure, occlusion, stoppage]
n. fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members [syn: fillet]
the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch; "the violinist's stopping was excellent"
See stop
v. come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" [syn: halt] [ant: start]
put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" [syn: discontinue, cease, give up, quit, lay off] [ant: continue]
stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process" [syn: halt, block, kibosh]
interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they stopped for three days in Florence" [syn: stop over]
cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief" [ant: start]
prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the negociations" [syn: break, break off, discontinue]
hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in Sout East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism" [syn: check, turn back, arrest, contain, hold back]
seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace" [syn: intercept]
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" [syn: end, finish, terminate, cease] [ant: begin]
render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade, block, blockade, block off, block up, bar]
stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments; "Hold on a moment!" [syn: hold on]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "stopping".
In all the world there is not a human being who has not contributed something to the awful cost and the loss due to the destruction of property, the stopping of industry, the waste of energy and the curtailment of human endeavor in the interest of civilization, and the effects which the struggle has had upon the world cannot even be approximated in dollars and cents.
George agreed, stopping before her, Alfred and Trina arriving from the side.
If obtained by expression from the unripe fruit, it is very useful as an astringent medicine, and is a popular remedy for stopping a flow of blood from the nose.
He did not go in at the door of the house, but turned sideways along the ledge below the balustrade, stopping at the object which had been fastened by the woman to the coping of the balcony.
The bardling followed Am through a maze of corridors, across the rush-strewn stretch of the Great Hall, and up a winding stairway, stopping before a closed door.
Alec, stopping to nod and smile at the bright-faced figure resting on the old bamboo chair, after a lively game of battledore and shuttlecock, in place of a run which a storm prevented.
Charles received them graciously and, learning that they had been stopping at Bearn with the Prince of Navarre, presented them to his sister Margaret.
Heinz Berner paced ceaselessly up and down, stopping now and again to bang his fists against the door and to let out a loud, echoing wail of despair, the cry of a drowning man in the middle of a deserted ocean.
For some minutes the contest continued, Blotto alternately sparking and stopping like a willing but broken-down motor.
She was going out with the dogs, walking up the Lane, stopping at the Grange to put Bramble on the lead.
Which was as well, as he said not a word in the five hours it took to reach Amesbury, which was certainly beyond any possible stopping place of Cressida Mandeville and her family.
He was still tangled when some men from Marco, stopping by on their way north from Key West, found him hooked by his trousers in the mangrove at low tide, with his nose-warmer washed up alongside him.
Stopping on the threshold, the mariachi saw the other crooks around the card table, and turned questioningly toward Murk, who told him to step inside.
I put my head down and played up to the High Hole, the sixteenth, stopping there to listen as the surf pounded the shore and to watch as the high winds flung the marram grass back and forth.
This is the point, usually after successfully stopping smoking, drinking, avoiding studying, overeating, etc.