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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"
Stoppled
- verb - close or secure with or as if with a stopper; "She stoppered the wine bottle"; "The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers"
Stopples
- noun - 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"
Stopship
- - A remora. It was fabled to stop ships by attaching itself to them.