Word Meanings - STOPPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air. (more info) 1. Material for filling a cavity.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STOPPING)

• Cessation
• Stopping
• halt
• discontinuance
• quiescence
• suspension
• intermission
• lull
• respite
• stop
• rest
• abeyance
• pause

Related words: (words related to STOPPING)

• STOPPING
  A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air. (more info) 1. Material for filling a cavity.
• STOPPAGE
  The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
• STOPPER
  A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something. Totten. (more info) 1. One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent
• INTERMISSION
  The temporary cessation or subsidence of a fever; the space of time between the paroxysms of a disease. Intermission is an entire cessation, as distinguished from remission, or abatement of fever. 4. Intervention; interposition. Heylin. Syn. --
• STOPPED
  Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said of certain consonants . H. Sweet.
• PAUSER
  One who pauses. Shak.
• SUSPENSION
  A keeping of the hearer in doubt and in attentive expectation of what is to follow, or of what is to be the inference or conclusion from the arguments or observations employed. (more info) 1. The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended;
• ABEYANCE
  Expectancy; condition of being undetermined. Note: When there is no person in existence in whom an inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is said to be in abeyance, that is, in expectation; the law considering it as always potentially existing,
• CESSATION
  A ceasing of discontinuance, as of action, whether termporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war. The temporary cessation of the papal iniquities. Motley. The day was yearly observed for a festival by cessation from labor. Sir J. Hayward.
• STOPPING-OUT
  A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts.
• QUIESCENCE; QUIESCENCY
  The state or quality of being quiescent. "Quiescence, bodily and mental." H. Spencer. Deeds will be done; -- while be boasts his quiescence. R. Browning.
• RESPITELESS
  Without respite. Baxter.
• DISCONTINUANCE
  1. The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel. A
• RESPITE
  1. A putting off of that which was appointed; a postponement or delay. I crave but four day's respite. Shak. 2. Temporary intermission of labor, or of any process or operation; interval of rest; pause; delay. "Without more respite." Chaucer. Some
• STOPPLE
  That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.
• PAUSE
  A hold. See 4th Hold, 7. Syn. -- Stop; cessation; suspension. (more info) 1. A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation. 2. Temporary inaction or waiting; hesitation; suspence; doubt. I stand in pause
• INTERPAUSE
  An intermission.
• NONACQUIESCENCE
  Refusal of acquiescence; failure to yield or comply.
• UNINTERMISSION
  Want or failure of intermission. Bp. Parker.
• MENOPAUSE
  The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See Change of life, under Change.
• ESTOPPEL
  A stop; an obstruction or bar to one's alleging or denying a fact contrary to his own previous action, allegation, or denial; an admission, by words or conduct, which induces another to purchase rights, against which the party making such admission