stopping
nounUK /ˈstɒpɪŋ/ · AU, UK, SC /ˈstɔpɪŋ/
1
The act of something that stops; a halt.
- constant startings and stoppings
- the narrowings, widenings, divertings, or stoppings of the stream of breath1854, William Barnes, A Philological Grammar (page 9)
- an amalgam stopping
- curious antiquaries, sifting the ruins of time, when London is a grass-grown path and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday morning are but bones with a few wedding rings mixed up in their dust and the gold stoppings of innumerable decayed teeth1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., page 23:
1 more example
- Then one day a big stopping came out of one of my back teeth.1958, Henno Martin, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, The Sheltering Desert, New York: Thomas Nelson, page 125:
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A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
- 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse The drawing poultices and stoppings of farriers are often highly injurious, instead of abating inflammation .
- Synonyms
- hiatus, moratorium, recess
- Derived terms
- heartstopping, hot-stopping, manstopping, nonstopping, non-stopping, prestopping, pre-stopping, puckstopping, showstopping, stopping distance, stoppingly, stopping-out, stopping power, stopping service, stopping time, stopping train, th-stopping