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Stooping
- verb - bend one's back forward from the waist on down; "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
- carry oneself, often habitually, with head, shoulders, and upper back bent forward; "The old man was stooping but he could walk around without a cane"
- debase oneself morally, act in an undignified, unworthy, or dishonorable way; "I won't stoop to reading other people's mail"
- descend swiftly, as if on prey; "The eagle stooped on the mice in the field"
- having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman"
- sag, bend, bend over or down; "the rocks stooped down over the hiking path"
Stop-Gap
- - That which closes or fills up an opening or gap; hence, a temporary expedient.
Stopcock
- noun - faucet consisting of a rotating device for regulating flow of a liquid
Stopgaps
- noun - something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency
Stopover
- noun - a brief stay in the course of a journey;
- a stopping place on a journey; "there is a stopover to change planes in Chicago"
Stoppage
- noun - an obstruction in a pipe or tube;
- the act of stopping something;
- the state of inactivity following an interruption;
Stoppard
- noun - British dramatist (born in Czechoslovakia in 1937)
Stoppers
- noun - (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"
- a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply
- an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down
- blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
- close or secure with or as if with a stopper; "She stoppered the wine bottle"; "The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers"
Stopping
- verb -
- fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
- have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical;
- stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments;
- 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"