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Stopping   /stˈɑpɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Stop  v. t.  (past & past part. stopped; pres. part. stopping)  
1.
To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
2.
To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
3.
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.
4.
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."
5.
(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.
6.
To point, as a composition; to punctuate. (R.) "If his sentences were properly stopped."
7.
(Naut.) To make fast; to stopper.
Synonyms: 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.


Stop  v. i.  
1.
To cease to go on; to halt, or stand still; to come to a stop. "He bites his lip, and starts; Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground; Then lays his finger on his temple: strait Springs out into fast gait; then stops again."
2.
To cease from any motion, or course of action. "Stop, while ye may, suspend your mad career!"
3.
To spend a short time; to reside temporarily; to stay; to tarry; as, to stop with a friend. (Colloq.) "By stopping at home till the money was gone."
To stop over, to stop at a station or airport beyond the time of the departure of the train or airplane on which one came, with the purpose of continuing one's journey on a subsequent train or airplane; to break one's journey. See stopover, n.


noun
Stopping  n.  
1.
Material for filling a cavity.
2.
(Mining) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
3.
(Far.) A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.





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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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