stopping
  停止
  stop·ping /ˈstɑpɪŋ/ 名詞
  充填,(充)填料,停止,制動(狀態),抑制,填塞(料),阻塞,填充料
  stopping
  停止 阻止
  Stop v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stopped p. pr. & vb. n. Stopping.]
  1. To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
  2. To obstruct; to render impassable; as, to stop a way, road, or passage.
  3. To arrest the progress of; to hinder; to impede; to shut in; as, to stop a traveler; to stop the course of a stream, or a flow of blood.
  4. To hinder from acting or moving; to prevent the effect or efficiency of; to cause to cease; to repress; to restrain; to suppress; to interrupt; to suspend; as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity.
  Whose disposition all the world well knows
  Will not be rubbed nor stopped.   --Shak.
  5. Mus. To regulate the sounds of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.
  6. To point, as a composition; to punctuate. [R.]
     If his sentences were properly stopped.   --Landor.
  7. Naut. To make fast; to stopper.
  Syn: -- To obstruct; hinder; impede; repress; suppress; restrain; discontinue; delay; interrupt.
  To stop off Founding, to fill (a part of a mold) with sand, where a part of the cavity left by the pattern is not wanted for the casting.
  To stop the mouth. See under Mouth.
  Stop·ping n.
  1. Material for filling a cavity.
  2. Mining A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
  3. Far. A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
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  stop
       n 1: the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the
            bottom of the hill" [syn: halt]
       2: the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some
          remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a
          flood" [syn: stoppage]
       3: a brief stay in the course of a journey; "they made a
          stopover to visit their friends" [syn: stopover, layover]
       4: the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the
          negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check";
          "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay
          enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop
          in his seat" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay,
           stoppage]
       5: a spot where something halts or pauses; "his next stop is
          Atlanta"
       6: a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some
          point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are
          too aspirated" [syn: stop consonant, occlusive, plosive
          consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive] [ant: continuant
          consonant]
       7: a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative
          sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations;
          "in England they call a period a stop" [syn: period, point,
           full stop, full point]
       8: (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"
       9: a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of
          aperture of the lens; "the new cameras adjust the
          diaphragm automatically" [syn: diaphragm]
       10: a restraint that checks the motion of something; "he used a
           book as a stop to hold the door open" [syn: catch]
       11: an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber
           to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe" [syn: blockage,
            block, closure, occlusion, stoppage]
       v 1: come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped
            in front of a store window" [syn: halt] [ant: start]
       2: put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your
          little brother" [syn: discontinue, cease, give up, quit,
           lay off] [ant: continue]
       3: stop from happening or developing; "Block his election";
          "Halt the process" [syn: halt, block, kibosh]
       4: interrupt a trip; "we stopped at Aunt Mary's house"; "they
          stopped for three days in Florence" [syn: stop over]
       5: cause to stop; "stop a car"; "stop the thief" [ant: start]
       6: prevent completion; "stop the project"; "break off the
          negociations" [syn: break, break off, discontinue]
       7: hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion
          or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the
          growth of communism in Sout East Asia"; "Contain the rebel
          movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism" [syn: check,
           turn back, arrest, contain, hold back]
       8: seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to
          intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's
          airspace" [syn: intercept]
       9: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense;
          either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate
          in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe
          upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the
          bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" [syn: end,
          finish, terminate, cease] [ant: begin]
       10: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade
           the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade, block,
            blockade, block off, block up, bar]
       11: stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or
           developments; "Hold on a moment!" [syn: hold on]
       [also: stopping, stopped]
  stopping
       n 1: fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used
            to join steel members [syn: fillet]
       2: 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"