stops
stops
- n a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
- n the event of something ending
- n the act of stopping something
the third baseman made some remarkable stops - n a brief stay in the course of a journey
- n the state of inactivity following an interruption
- n a spot where something halts or pauses
- n a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it
- n a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations
- n (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes
the organist pulled out all the stops - n a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens
- n a restraint that checks the motion of something
- n an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- 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
- Should we take the percentage of traffic stops for a certain racial group and hold it against that group's percentage in the population? Or should it be the percentage of stops vs .
- But the clinical definition we use is when the heart stops beating, the lungs stop working, and as a consequence the brain itself stops working.