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Definition: STOPE |
STOPEIntransitive verb1. A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps. Past participle1. Alt. of Stopen Transitive verb1. To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out. 2. To excavate in the form of stopes. |
Date "STOPE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1604. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. An excavation from which ore has been removed in a series of steps. A variation of step. Usually applied to highly inclined or vertical veins. Frequently used incorrectly as a syn. for room, which is a wide-working place in a flat mine b. To excavate ore in a vein by driving horizontally upon it a series of workings, one immediately over the other, or vice versa. Each horizontal working is called a stope because when a number of them are in progress, each working face under attack assumes the shape of a flight of stairs. When the first stope is begun at a lower corner of the body of ore to be removed, and, after it has advanced a convenient distance, the next is commenced above it. This is called overhand stoping. When the first stope begins at an upper corner, and the succeeding ones are below it, it is called underhand stoping. The term stoping is loosely applied to any subterranean extraction of ore except that which is incidentally performed in sinking shafts, driving levels, etc., for the purpose of opening the mine. c. Commonly applied to the extraction of ore, but does not include the ore removed in sinking shafts and in driving levels, drifts, and other development openings d. The working above and below a level where the mass of the orebody is broken. A stope is the very antithesis of a shaft, tunnel, drift, winze, or other similar excavation in a mine e. Any excavation in a mine, other than development workings, made for the purpose of extracting ore. The outlines of the orebody determine the outlines of the stope. The term is also applied to breaking ground by drilling and blasting or other methods. See also:cavingf. A body of mineral left by running drifts about it. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Receptacle | Portico, porch, stoop, stope, veranda, patio, lanai, terrace, deck; lobby, court, courtyard, hall, vestibule, corridor, passage, breezeway; ante room, ante chamber; lounge; piazza. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: STOPE |
| English words defined with "STOPE": Stoped, Stoping. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "STOPE": advance stope, airhammer, anchaduar, assay plan ♦ back stope, backfill ♦ chinaman chute, combined top slicing and shrinkage stoping, crown pillar ♦ development work, drift set, drift stope ♦ expansion dome ♦ fracture dome ♦ heading-and-bench mining, herringbone stoping, hydraulic filling ♦ lost closure ♦ overhand stope ♦ peak stope, pneumatic filling, prop wall ♦ resue, rill stope, ring-stress bursts ♦ SAND FILLER, shear bursts, sheeting caps, shrinkage stoping, slusher drift, square set, stepped stope, stope block, stope board, stope driller, stope pillar, stope sampling, stope scraper, stope washings, stoping underhand, stoping width, stringer sets, stull covering, stull stoping, substoping ♦ timbered stope, tugger operator ♦ underhand stope ♦ vertical crater retreat ♦ waste raise. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Gromke radnicke stope (1974) Spejbl na stope (1956) Na dobré stope (1948) | |
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| "STOPE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "STOPE" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stope | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "STOPE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 废坑 (Stopes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | stope (working place), trappeformet afgravning, brydningsted (working place). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | winplaats (borrow, borrow area, borrow pit, face, production area, tract(1, unit, working place, working unit), winningspost (working place), trapvormige afgraving. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | pan, dépilage (stoping), chantier d'extraction, chantier d'abattage, chambre (stall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Strosse, stoß (barge, batch, belch, biff, blast, blow, brunt, bump, burst, butt, dig, gasp, hit, impact, jab, jog, joint, jolt, kick, knock, mound, nudge, pile, poke, prod, punch, push, put, rush, selvage, shock, shove, shunt, stab, stack, stroke, throw, thrust, tilt, tremor, volley), Abbaustelle (working place), Abbauort (working place). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | κλιμακωτή ανόρυξη μεταλευμάτοσ, βαθμίδα (level, rank, stair, step), μέτωπο (brow, forehead, front), θάλαμος (booth, chamber, ward). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | cantiere di abbattimento (working place). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Korean | 채광장 (Stopes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | pitschal, ooig (antar, cave, cavern, den, grotto, hotbed, pit), guag (den). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | opestay stope, tajo (block, chop-block, chop-board, gash, hack, Tagus), pique de extracción, macizo (bed, chunk, chunky, clump, flowerbed, gardenbed, mass, massif, massive, quickly, solid), labor (labor, labour, task, toil, work), escalones (altars, steps), escalón (doorstep, echelon, grade, ladder, peg, rung, stage, stair, step, tread), cuarto (a quarter, apartment, chamber, compartment, flat, fourth, fourth part, habitation, joint, quarter, room), cámara (cam, camera, cameraman, chamber, cine camera, hall, house, innertube, lieu, tire, tyre, vault). (various references) trappformad utgrävning, pall (footstool, stool). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "STOPE": stoped, stoper, stopers, stopes. (additional references) | |
Words containing "STOPE": postoperative, postoperatively. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: estop, pesto, poets, topes. | |
| Words within the letters "e-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: epos, opes, opts, peso, pest, pets, poet, pose, post, pots, sept, spot, step, stop, toes, tope, tops. | |
-2 letters: oes, ope, ops, opt, ose, pes, pet, pot, set, sop, sot, toe, top. | |
-3 letters: es, et, oe, op, os, pe, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-o-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: depots, despot, estops, netops, pestos, pontes, posset, posted, poster, potsie, presto, ptoses, repots, respot, sapote, sexpot, sopite, stoped, stoper, stopes, tempos, tepoys, topees, topers, tophes, tropes. | |
+2 letters: apostle, atopies, bedpost, capotes, coempts, copters, cotypes, deports, deposit, desktop, despots, dopiest, esparto, exports, exposit, eyespot, gestapo, heptose, isotope, isotype, leptons, metopes, mopiest, moppets, openest, ophites, opiates, optimes, outsped, pelotas, pentose, petasos, petrols, petrous, peyotes, peyotls, pintoes, piolets, pistole, piteous, plotzes, pockets, podesta, podites, poetess, poetics, poetise, pointes, pokiest, poorest, poppets, porters, poshest, posited, possets, postage, posteen, postern, posters, postmen, posture, potages, poteens, pothers, potpies, potsies, potters, potties, pottles, potzers, pouters, powters, presort, prestos, pretors, projets, prosect, prostie, proteas, protest, proteus, prowest, redtops, replots, reports, reposit, respots, riposte, ropiest, sapotes, seaport, sexpots, sopited, sopites, sported, sporter, spotted, spotter, spouted, spouter, stepson, stomped, stomper, stooped, stooper, stopers, stopped, stopper, stopple, strophe, teapots, teapoys, teashop, teopans, thorpes, tiptoes, toecaps, topazes, topless, toppers, topples, topside, toupees, trompes, troupes, tupelos, typhose. | |
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