different between topper vs stopper

English

Etymology

From Middle English toppor, equivalent to top +? -er.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

topper (plural toppers)

1. Something that is on top.
   • 1999, John Yeoman, Self Reliance: A Recipe for the New Millennium (page 55)

     Chicken livers, of course, can also be gently fried, mashed in butter, and spread as a toast topper.

2. A top hat.
3. Something that exceeds those previous in a series, as a joke or prank.
4. (chiefly US) A short outer jacket worn by women or children.
5. A soft, relatively thin, piece of padding placed on top of a mattress, or forming the upper layer of a mattress.
6. (India) The student who achieves the highest score in an examination.
7. (colloquial) The head or chief of an organization.
   • 1953, August 29, Billboard (page 4)

     Cooley currently is ironing out details of the proposed kinescoping with Klaus Landsberg, topper at KTLA, over whose facilities the hour-long show has been telecast […]

8. Something for cutting off the top of something.
9. One who tops steel ingots.
10. A single-handed dinghy, 11 foot (3.6 metres) in length, with only one sail.
11. A three-square float, or file, used by comb-makers.
12. (dated, slang) Tobacco left in the bottom of a pipe bowl; so called from being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl.
    • 1875, E. R. Billings, Tobacco (page 189)

      One man was faithful to his pipe, and kept / Despair and deeper misery at bay, / By seeking ever for a "topper," dropped / From some spurned pipe, but that he could not find; […]

13. (dated, slang) A fine or remarkable thing or person.
14. A small secondary comic strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip, and usually by the same author.

Related terms

• open-topper
• top off
• topper-offer
• topping

Dutch

Etymology

From top +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?.p?r/
• Hyphenation: top?per
• Rhymes: -?p?r

Noun

topper m (plural toppers)

1. Someone or something excellent; a belter, a ripper.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

topper m

1. indefinite plural of topp

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