different between stepper vs stopper

English

Etymology

step +? -er

Noun

stepper (plural steppers)

1. A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high.
2. A dancer. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
   • 2020, Moneybagg Yo, Match My Fly

     You remind me of my stepper, 'cause I know you gon' slide

3. A kind of electric motor (a stepper motor) that advances in steps rather than smoothly.
4. A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating).
5. A type of exercise machine.
6. Anything that moves or advances in steps.
   • 2013, Matthew David, HTML5: Designing Rich Internet Applications (page 58)

     The Age field is a numeric stepper tool that allows you to scroll through a specific range of numbers.

7. (Britain, obsolete, slang, historical) A prison treadmill.
   • 1883, George Atkins Brine, The King of the Beggars (page 164)

     On the treadmill we were shut up in little boxes, almost pitch dark, and the handrail to catch hold of when treading the mill was so high […] I refused point blank, one morning, to go on the stepper on plea of illness, […]

Anagrams

• Teppers

Danish

Noun

stepper c

1. indefinite plural of steppe

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

stepper m

1. indefinite plural of steppe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

stepper f

1. indefinite plural of steppe

English

Wikispecies

Etymology

stop +? -er

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA^(key): /?st?p.?/
• (AusE) IPA^(key): /?st?p.?/
• (GenAm) IPA^(key): /?st?.p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(r)

Noun

stopper (plural stoppers)

1. Agent noun of stop, someone or something that stops something.
   • 2000, Carole B. Cox, Empowering Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (page 28)

     Often, in our conversations we encourage people to talk, or we manage to stop them. This can happen without our even thinking about it. Following is a list of conversation starters and stoppers.

2. A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.

   Put a stopper in the knot.

3. A bung or cork.

   We need a stopper or the boat will sink.

4. (slang, soccer) Goalkeeper.

   He's the number one stopper in the country.
5. (finance, slang) In the commodity futures market, someone who is long (owns) a futures contract and is demanding delivery because they want to take possession of the deliverable commodity.

   Cattle futures: spillover momentum plus evidence of a strong stopper (i.e., 96 loads demanded) should kick the opening higher.

6. (rail transport) A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
7. (botany) Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.
   • 1890, Charles Sprague Sargent, The Silva of North America: A Description of the Trees which Grow Naturally in North America Exclusive of Mexico

     Red Stopper. Leaves ovate-oblong, contracted at the apex into long points, coriaceous. Eugenia Garber

8. (nautical) A short rope for making something fast.
9. A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.

Synonyms

• (rail transport): local, stopping train
• (bung): plug

Antonyms

• (rail transport): fast, express

Derived terms

• crimestopper
• gobstopper
• ring stopper
• stopper bolt
• tobacco-stopper

Translations

Verb

stopper (third-person singular simple present stoppers, present participle stoppering, simple past and past participle stoppered)

1. To close a container by using a stopper.

   He tightly stoppered the decanter, thinking the expensive liqueur had been evaporating.

   The diaphragmatic spasm of his hiccup caused his epiglottis to painfully stopper his windpipe with a loud "hic".

Anagrams

• SPOTREP, Toppers, opprest, popster, toppers

Danish

Verb

stopper

1. present of stoppe

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?p?r/
• Rhymes: -?p?r

Noun

stopper m (plural stoppers, diminutive stoppertje n)

1. stop (device to block path)

French

Etymology

1792, from English stop.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?.pe/

Verb

stopper

1. (colloquial) to stop

   il faut stopper cette hostilité permanente

   This permanent hostility must be stopped.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (more formal) arrêter

Further reading

• “stopper” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

stopper

1. present of stoppe