Stopping

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stop \Stop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stopped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Stopping}.] [OE. stoppen, AS. stoppian (in comp.); akin to
     LG. & D. stoppen, G. stopfen, Icel. stoppa, Sw. stoppa, Dan.
     stoppe; all probably fr. LL. stopare, stupare, fr. L. stuppa
     the coarse part of flax, tow, oakum. Cf. {Estop}, {Stuff},
     {Stupe} a fomentation.]


     1. To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing;
        as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
        --Shak.
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     2. To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way,
        road, or passage.
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     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.
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     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.
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              Whose disposition all the world well knows
              Will not be rubbed nor stopped.       --Shak.
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     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.
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     6. To point, as a composition; to punctuate. [R.]
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              If his sentences were properly stopped. --Landor.
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     7. (Naut.) To make fast; to stopper.
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     Syn: To obstruct; hinder; impede; repress; suppress;
          restrain; discontinue; delay; interrupt.
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     {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}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Stopping \Stop"ping\, n.
     1. Material for filling a cavity.
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     2. (Mining) A partition or door to direct or prevent a
        current of air.
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     3. (Far.) A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied
        to a horse's hoof to keep it moist. --Youatt.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stop
       n 1: the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the
            bottom of the hill" [syn: {halt}]
       2: the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some
          remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a
          flood" [syn: {stoppage}]
       3: a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a
          stopover to visit their friends" [syn: {stopover}, {layover}]
       4: the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the
          negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check";
          "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay
          enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop
          in his seat" [syn: {arrest}, {check}, {halt}, {hitch}, {stay},
           {stoppage}]
       5: a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is
          Atlanta"
       6: a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some
          point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are
          too aspirated" [syn: {stop consonant}, {occlusive}, {plosive
          consonant}, {plosive speech sound}, {plosive}] [ant: {continuant
          consonant}]
       7: a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative
          sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;
          "in England they call a period a stop" [syn: {period}, {point},
           {full stop}, {full point}]
       8: (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the
          sound quality from the organ pipes; "the organist pulled
          out all the stops"
       9: a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of
          aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the
          diaphragm automatically" [syn: {diaphragm}]
       10: a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a
           book as a stop to hold the door open" [syn: {catch}]
       11: an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber
           to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" [syn: {blockage},
            {block}, {closure}, {occlusion}, {stoppage}]
       v 1: come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped
            in front of a store window" [syn: {halt}] [ant: {start}]
       2: put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your
          little brother" [syn: {discontinue}, {cease}, {give up}, {quit},
           {lay off}] [ant: {continue}]
       3: stop from happening or developing; "Block his election";
          "Halt the process" [syn: {halt}, {block}, {kibosh}]
       4: interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they
          stopped for three days in Florence" [syn: {stop over}]
       5: cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief" [ant: {start}]
       6: prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the
          negociations" [syn: {break}, {break off}, {discontinue}]
       7: hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion
          or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the
          growth of communism in Sout East Asia"; "Contain the rebel
          movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism" [syn: {check},
           {turn back}, {arrest}, {contain}, {hold back}]
       8: seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to
          intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's
          airspace" [syn: {intercept}]
       9: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense;
          either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate
          in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe
          upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the
          bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" [syn: {end},
          {finish}, {terminate}, {cease}] [ant: {begin}]
       10: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade
           the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: {barricade}, {block},
            {blockade}, {block off}, {block up}, {bar}]
       11: stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or
           developments; "Hold on a moment!" [syn: {hold on}]
       [also: {stopping}, {stopped}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stopping
       n 1: fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used
            to join steel members [syn: {fillet}]
       2: the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on
          the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch;
          "the violinist's stopping was excellent"

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stopping
       See {stop}