stopper
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: Etymology tree
English s-
English top
English stop
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English stopper
From stop + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: stoppers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: stoppers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: stoppering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: stoppered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: stoppered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Someone or something that stops something.
pos: noun
examples: “It just shows you what women are like. A frightful sex, Bertie. There ought to be a law. I hope to live to see the day when women are no longer allowed.” “That would rather put a stopper on keeping the human race going, wouldn't it?” “Well, who wants to keep the human race going?”
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.
gloss: A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
pos: noun
examples: Put a stopper in the knot.
gloss: A bung or cork.
pos: noun
examples: We need a stopper or the boat will sink.
gloss: Goalkeeper.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: He's the number one stopper in the country.
And just before the interval, Kolarov, who was having one of his better games in a City shirt, fizzed in a cracker from 30 yards which the Wolves stopper unconvincingly pushed behind for a corner.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Cattle futures: spillover momentum plus evidence of a strong stopper (i.e., 96 loads demanded) should kick the opening higher.
gloss: A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
pos: noun
examples: The local train was empty at midday. She changed at Yatton and caught a stopper into Bristol. There was an express calling at Exeter which left Bristol at twelve-forty-five and she caught it by the skin of her teeth.
Changing times at Barnham on December 8 2022. Southern 313211 is an all-stations stopper.
gloss: Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.
pos: noun
examples: Red Stopper. Leaves ovate-oblong, contracted at the apex into long points, coriaceous. Eugenia Garber
gloss: A short rope for making something fast.
pos: noun
gloss: A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.
pos: noun
gloss: To close a container by using a stopper.
pos: verb
examples: 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".
Synonyms: local
stopping train
Antonyms: fast
express
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