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Stopping   /stˈɑpɪŋ/   Listen
Stopping

noun
1.
Fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members.  Synonym: fillet.
2.
The kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch.



Stop

verb
(past & past part. stopped; pres. part. stopping)
1.
Come to a halt, stop moving.  Synonym: halt.  "She stopped in front of a store window"
2.
Put an end to a state or an activity.  Synonyms: cease, discontinue, give up, lay off, quit.
3.
Stop from happening or developing.  Synonyms: block, halt, kibosh.  "Halt the process"
4.
Interrupt a trip.  Synonym: stop over.  "They stopped for three days in Florence"
5.
Cause to stop.  "Stop the thief"
6.
Prevent completion.  Synonyms: break, break off, discontinue.  "Break off the negotiations"
7.
Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of.  Synonyms: arrest, check, contain, hold back, turn back.  "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia" , "Contain the rebel movement" , "Turn back the tide of communism"
8.
Seize on its way.  Synonym: intercept.
9.
Have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical.  Synonyms: cease, end, finish, terminate.  "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other" , "My property ends by the bushes" , "The symphony ends in a pianissimo"
10.
Render unsuitable for passage.  Synonyms: bar, barricade, block, block off, block up, blockade.  "Barricade the streets" , "Stop the busy road"
11.
Stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments.  Synonym: hold on.



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"Stopping" Quotes from Famous Books



... stopping place for the cars, but there was no settlement of any account there, as he ...
— Making His Way - Frank Courtney's Struggle Upward • Horatio Alger, Jr.

... bill of fare consisted of peas, beans, boiled apples or cheese. He considered this food as best suited to the human stomach; that is to say, as most amenable to the grinders, whence it was to encounter the process of digestion. Nevertheless, easy as was their passage, he was not for stopping the way with too much of them; and to be sure, he was in the right. But tho he cautioned the maid and me against repletion in respect of solids, it was made up by free permission to drink as much water as we liked. Far from ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)--Continental Europe I • Various

... we started up the creek. I was astonished at the willingness with which the Shokas agreed to proceed. In a short time I felt convinced that Nattoo was deliberately taking us to the spot I most wished to avoid. On my remonstrating and stopping farther progress in that direction, the Shokas mutinied, and, laying down their loads, tried to escape. Chanden Sing quickly barred their way ahead in the narrow creek. I prevented their escape from the opposite side. They had ...
— An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet • A. Henry Savage Landor

... look for the young lady, Muster Halliday,' he said; 'you should have gone the other way. I know a man as drove Mr. Kingdon and your wife's sister across country to Hull with two of my lord's own horses, stopping to bait on the way. They went aboard ship at Hull, Mr. Kingdon and the young lady—a ship that was bound for foreign parts.' This is what the groom said; but it was little good knowing it now. There'd been advertisements in the papers beseeching her to come back; ...
— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon

... hunger he gave us to eat and drink. He is entitled to what he has received. It appears that the Seminoles who have done no mischief, have to suffer, as well as the few that have been guilty—this does not appear to be right to us. By stopping our money, the Governor has prevented our paying just debts, the debts we owe to the licensed Indian traders, who have trusted us under the expectation that we would pay them when we received our money. Our ...
— Four American Indians - King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola • Edson L. Whitney


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