stopping
sto ping
- n fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
- n 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 - 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
- I'm desperately concerned with stopping violence against women, stopping wars and stopping the destruction of the environment.
- After a lighting ceremony in Greece, the torch will make a 137,000 km "journey of harmony," stopping off in 135 cities on five continents.
- The legendary hospital invests in stopping diseases before they get startedPhotographs for PTI by Ashley Gilbertson VII Network.