stopes
- n birth-control campaigner who in 1921 opened the first birth control clinic in London (1880-1958)
- v come to a halt, stop moving
- v put an end to a state or an activity
- v stop from happening or developing
- v interrupt a trip
- v cause to stop
- v prevent completion
- v hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of
- v seize on its way
- v have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
- v render unsuitable for passage
- v stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments
- From your perspective and experience would you be able to tell us when and where a good journalism stopes giving the advance to the politics and opposite, and what is the crucial .
- Deep beneath tall smelter chimneys and black slag mounds, its shafts bite 3,425 feet into the earth; from its honeycomb of stopes come 12,000 tons of nut-brown ore every working day.
- Armed police descended a thousand feet into the dim stopes of one mine, drove up, level by level, some 1,000 sit-down strikers.