stopper
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
stopper (plural stoppers)
- Agent noun of stop, someone or something that stops something.
- 2000, Carole B. Cox, Empowering Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (page 28)
- Often, in our conversations we encourage people to talk, or we manage to stop them. This can happen without our even thinking about it. Following is a list of conversation starters and stoppers.
- 2000, Carole B. Cox, Empowering Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (page 28)
- A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
- Put a stopper in the knot.
- A bung or cork.
- We need a stopper or the boat will sink.
- (slang, soccer) Goalkeeper.
- He's the number one stopper in the country.
- (finance, slang) In the commodity futures market, someone who is long (owns) a futures contract and is demanding delivery because they want to take possession of the deliverable commodity.
- Cattle futures: spillover momentum plus evidence of a strong stopper (i.e., 96 loads demanded) should kick the opening higher.
- (rail transport) A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
- (botany) Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.
- 1890, Charles Sprague Sargent, The Silva of North America: A Description of the Trees which Grow Naturally in North America Exclusive of Mexico
- Red Stopper. Leaves ovate-oblong, contracted at the apex into long points, coriaceous. Eugenia Garber
- 1890, Charles Sprague Sargent, The Silva of North America: A Description of the Trees which Grow Naturally in North America Exclusive of Mexico
- (nautical) A short rope for making something fast.
- A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.
- (rail transport) local, stopping train
- (bung) plug
stopper (stoppers, present participle stoppering; past and past participle stoppered)
- To close a container by using a stopper.
- He tightly stoppered the decanter, thinking the expensive liqueur had been evaporating.
- The diaphragmatic spasm of his hiccup caused his epiglottis to painfully stopper his windpipe with a loud "hic".
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