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stopper
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)
- 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.
- 2000, Carole B. Cox, Empowering Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (page 28)
- A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
- Put a stopper in the knot.
- A bung or cork.
- We need a stopper or the boat will sink.
- (slang, soccer) Goalkeeper.
- He's the number one stopper in the country.
- (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.
- (rail transport) A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
- (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
- 1890, Charles Sprague Sargent, The Silva of North America: A Description of the Trees which Grow Naturally in North America Exclusive of Mexico
- (nautical) A short rope for making something fast.
- 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)
- 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
- present of stoppe
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?st?p?r/
- Rhymes: -?p?r
Noun
stopper m (plural stoppers, diminutive stoppertje n)
- stop (device to block path)
French
Etymology
1792, from English stop.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?.pe/
Verb
stopper
- (colloquial) to stop
- il faut stopper cette hostilité permanente
- This permanent hostility must be stopped.
- il faut stopper cette hostilité permanente
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
- present of stoppe
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stopped
English
Etymology
From stop +? -ed. In some senses, the adjective follows from the verb; in others, it may derive directly from the noun stop.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /st?pt/
Verb
stopped
- simple past tense and past participle of stop
Adjective
stopped (comparative more stopped, superlative most stopped)
- (of a vehicle) Not moving, but not properly parked or berthed; said also of the occupants of such a vehicle.
- We were stopped for more than three hours!
- They passed a stopped car on the side of the road, but realized there was nothing they could do to help.
- (more generally) In the state resulting from having stopped.
- A stopped clock is right twice a day.
- (of a pipe) Having a stop; being closed at one end.
- (of a plant) In a well-pruned state.
- (phonetics) Made by complete closure of the organs in the mouth; said of certain consonants such as b, d, p, and t.
- 1874, Henry Sweet, A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period
- þ was first voiced and then stopped , becoming d
- 1874, Henry Sweet, A History of English Sounds from the Earliest Period
Derived terms
- a stopped clock is right twice a day
Translations
stopped From the web:
- what stopped the spanish flu
- what stopped the black plague
- what stopped the 1918 pandemic
- what stopped the great depression
- what stopped european colonization in america
- what stopped slavery
- what stopped the black death
- what stopped the salem witch trials
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