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noun
- 1. a filling for a tooth. dated British
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Synonyms for STOPPING: passing, finishing, ending, dying, terminating, ceasing, closing, concluding; Antonyms of STOPPING: remaining, leftover, residual, lingering, continuing, lasting, persisting, enduring
(Definition of stopping from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
1. a. : to close by filling or obstructing. b. : to hinder or prevent the passage of. c. : to get in the way of : be wounded or killed by. easy to stop a bullet along a lonely … road Harvey Fergusson. 2. a. : to close up or block off (an opening) : plug. b. : to make impassable : choke, obstruct. c. : to cover over or fill in (a hole or crevice) 3.
(Definition of stopping from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of stopping. stopping. It's not the easiest thing to find, but people keep stopping by. From The Verge. As for background checks stopping straw buyers, you don't seem to get how this works. From TIME.
1. To close (an opening or hole) by covering, filling in, or plugging up: The tea leaves stopped the drain. 2. To constrict (an opening or orifice): My nose is stopped up. 3. To obstruct or block passage on (a road, for example). 4. To prevent the flow or passage of: stop supplies from getting through. 5. a.
STOP definition: 1. to finish doing something that you were doing: 2. to stop doing, using, or having something…. Learn more.
Stopping definition: a barrier erected to prevent the flow of air or gas.. See examples of STOPPING used in a sentence.
to cease; come to an end. to halt for a brief visit (often fol. by at, in, or by): He is stopping at the best hotel in town. stop by, to make a brief visit on one's way elsewhere: I'll stop by on my way home. Photography stop down, (on a camera) to reduce (the diaphragm opening of a lens).
Stop is the general term for the idea: to stop a clock. Arrest usually refers to stopping by imposing a sudden and complete restraint: to arrest development. Check implies bringing about an abrupt, partial, or temporary stop: to check a trotting horse.
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024 How to use stopping in a sentence I always wanted to have a career like his—except for the stopping work thing.
