stopper
English
Pronunciation
Noun
stopper (plural stoppers)
- Agent noun of stop, someone or something that stops something.
- 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter IX:
- “It just shows you what women are like. A frightful sex, Bertie. There ought to be a law. I hope to live to see the day when women are no longer allowed.” “That would rather put a stopper on keeping the human race going, wouldn't it?” “Well, who wants to keep the human race going?”
- 2000, Carole B. Cox, Empowering Grandparents Raising Grandchildren (page 28)
- Often, in our conversations we encourage people to talk, or we manage to stop them. This can happen without our even thinking about it. Following is a list of conversation starters and stoppers.
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- A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
- Put a stopper in the knot.
- A bung or cork.
- We need a stopper or the boat will sink.
- (slang, soccer) Goalkeeper.
- He's the number one stopper in the country.
- (finance, slang) In the commodity futures market, someone who is long (owns) a futures contract and is demanding delivery because they want to take possession of the deliverable commodity.
- Cattle futures: spillover momentum plus evidence of a strong stopper (i.e., 96 loads demanded) should kick the opening higher.
- (rail transport) A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
- (botany) Any of several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies.
- 1890, Charles Sprague Sargent, The Silva of North America: A Description of the Trees which Grow Naturally in North America Exclusive of Mexico
- Red Stopper. Leaves ovate-oblong, contracted at the apex into long points, coriaceous. Eugenia Garber
- 1890, Charles Sprague Sargent, The Silva of North America: A Description of the Trees which Grow Naturally in North America Exclusive of Mexico
- (nautical) A short rope for making something fast.
- A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.
Derived terms
- crimestopper
- gobstopper
- ring stopper
- stopper bolt
- tobacco-stopper
Translations
type of knot
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bung or cork
football (soccer): goalkeeper
finance slang: one who wants to take possession of the traded commodity
Verb
stopper (third-person singular simple present stoppers, present participle stoppering, simple past and past participle stoppered)
Danish
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈstɔpər/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɔpər
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stɔ.pe/
Verb
stopper
- (colloquial) to stop
- il faut stopper cette hostilité permanente
- This permanent hostility must be stopped.
- il faut stopper cette hostilité permanente
Conjugation
Conjugation of stopper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
present participle | stoppant /stɔ.pɑ̃/ | ||||||
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past participle | stoppé /stɔ.pe/ | ||||||
infinitive | |||||||
simple | stopper | ||||||
compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
gerund1 | |||||||
simple | stoppant /stɔ.pɑ̃/ | ||||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | stoppe /stɔp/ |
stoppes /stɔp/ |
stoppe /stɔp/ |
stoppons /stɔ.pɔ̃/ |
stoppez /stɔ.pe/ |
stoppent /stɔp/ |
imperfect | stoppais /stɔ.pɛ/ |
stoppais /stɔ.pɛ/ |
stoppait /stɔ.pɛ/ |
stoppions /stɔ.pjɔ̃/ |
stoppiez /stɔ.pje/ |
stoppaient /stɔ.pɛ/ | |
past historic2 | stoppai /stɔ.pe/ |
stoppas /stɔ.pa/ |
stoppa /stɔ.pa/ |
stoppâmes /stɔ.pam/ |
stoppâtes /stɔ.pat/ |
stoppèrent /stɔ.pɛʁ/ | |
future | stopperai /stɔ.pʁe/ |
stopperas /stɔ.pʁa/ |
stoppera /stɔ.pʁa/ |
stopperons /stɔ.pʁɔ̃/ |
stopperez /stɔ.pʁe/ |
stopperont /stɔ.pʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | stopperais /stɔ.pʁɛ/ |
stopperais /stɔ.pʁɛ/ |
stopperait /stɔ.pʁɛ/ |
stopperions /stɔ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
stopperiez /stɔ.pə.ʁje/ |
stopperaient /stɔ.pʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | stoppe /stɔp/ |
stoppes /stɔp/ |
stoppe /stɔp/ |
stoppions /stɔ.pjɔ̃/ |
stoppiez /stɔ.pje/ |
stoppent /stɔp/ |
imperfect2 | stoppasse /stɔ.pas/ |
stoppasses /stɔ.pas/ |
stoppât /stɔ.pa/ |
stoppassions /stɔ.pa.sjɔ̃/ |
stoppassiez /stɔ.pa.sje/ |
stoppassent /stɔ.pas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | stoppe /stɔp/ |
— | stoppons /stɔ.pɔ̃/ |
stoppez /stɔ.pe/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 Only usable with preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Synonyms
- (more formal) arrêter
Further reading
- “stopper” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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