stoppage
— Noun
– English
～ an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"
stoppage
— Noun
– English
～ 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"
stoppard
— Noun
– English
～ British dramatist (born in Czechoslovakia in 1937)
stopped
— Adjective
– English
～ (of a nose) blocked; "a stopped (or stopped-up) nose"
stopper
— Noun
– English
～ (bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit; "if my partner has a spade stopper I can bid no trump"
stopper
— Noun
– English
～ an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down
stopper knot
— Noun
– English
～ a knot that prevents a rope from passing through a hole
stopper
— Noun
– English
～ blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
stopper
— Noun
– English
～ a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply
show-stopper
— Noun
– English
～ an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down
show-stopper
— Noun
– English
～ something that is strikingly attractive or has great popular appeal; "she has a show-stopper of a smile"; "the brilliant orange flowers against the green foliage were a showstopper"
stopper
— Verb
– English
～ close or secure with or as if with a stopper; "She stoppered the wine bottle"; "The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers"
stoppered
— Adjective
– English
～ (of a container) having a stopper in the opening; "the tightly stoppered bottles"
stopping point
— Noun
– English
～ the temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season"
stopping
— Noun
– English
～ 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"
stopping
— Noun
– English
～ fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
stopple
— Noun
– English
～ blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
stopple
— Verb
– English
～ close or secure with or as if with a stopper; "She stoppered the wine bottle"; "The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers"
stops
— Noun
– English
～ a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
stopwatch
— Noun
– English
～ a timepiece that can be started or stopped for exact timing (as of a race)