Stopper

Definition: Stopper

Stopper

Noun

1. Blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly.

2. (bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit; "if my partner has a spade stopper I can bid no trump".

Verb

1. Close or secure with or as if with a stopper; "She stoppered the wine bottle"; "The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stopper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Metallurgy

Business

Chemical Industry

Food & Agriculture

Mechanical Engineering

Metallurgy

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Stopper

Closure

Noun: closure, occlusion, blockade; shutting up; Verb: obstruction; (hindrance); embolus; contraction; infarction; constipation, obstipation; blind alley, blind corner; keddah; cul-de-sac, caecum; imperforation, imperviousness; Adjective: impermeability; stopper.

Hindrance

Beaver dam; trocha; barricade; (defense); wall, dead wall, sea wall, levee breakwater, groyne; bulkhead, block, buffer; stopper; boom, dam, weir, burrock.

Stopper

Noun: stopper, stopple; plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, tap; rammer; ram, ramrod; piston; stop-gap; wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet.

Crosswords: Stopper

French (bring to halt, clamp, halt, hold, pull up, stop, uphold), German (center half, end-piece, stopper, timekeeper), Hungarian (stop watch, stopper, stopwatch, timer).

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even put a stopper on death (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; writing credit: Steven Kloves)

For the show stopper, this is for the know nadas (That's What I'm Looking For; performing artist: Da Brat)

The Time Stopper (1967)

Heart Stopper (1988)

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Books

• Crystal Stopper (reference)

• Mineral water bottles : an illustrated price guide to internal stopper variations (reference)

• Show Stopper (reference)

• Traffic Stopper (reference)

• Uten reformer stopper Norge (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Show Stopper [CUTOUT] (reference)

• Sings Fiddler on the Roof: Show Stopper (reference)

• Stopper (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Pop-Up Stopper Basic V2.2 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Wine Thermometer and Stopper Set (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crewmen slip anchor stoppers in preparation for anchoring. On the order "let go", the anchor detail will knock out the single remaining stopper with a sledge hammer, starting the anchor on its way. Pittsburgh is at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, during her initial post-reactivation trials, circa September 1951. She was recommissioned on 25 September. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expressions using "stopper": lid stopper ♦ put a stopper on ♦ put on a stopper ♦ ring stopper ♦ show stopper ♦ slip stopper ♦ stopper bolt ♦ stopper circuit ♦ stopper head ♦ stopper knot ♦ stopper of anchor ♦ stopper rod ♦ stopper rod assembly ♦ stopper sleeve ♦ Tobacco stopper. Additional references.

Beginning with "stopper": stopper-end, stopper-inner, stopper-rod.

Ending with "stopper": conversation-stopper, shot-stopper, show-stopper.

Albanian

shtupë (plug, sponge, stopgap, stupe, swab, swob, tow, wad, washcloth, wiper), tapë (Bibb, bung, bunghole, Cork, Corky, float, gag, obturator, pickled, plug, rabbit, spigot, stopple, tap, wad), ndalues (interdictory, preclusion, preclusive, prohibitive, prohibitory, proscriptive, staying). (various references)

Arabic 

‏سدادة (bung, gland, infarct, logjam, peg, plug, spigot, spile, stop), ‏سداد (pay, rightness), ‏الظهير الثالث. (various references)

Bulgarian 

стопор (detent, lock, stop), спирачка в цвят, спирачка (brake, counter, deterrent, drag, restraint), тапа (faucet, peg, plug, spile, stopple), затвор (bastille, bondage, calaboose, can, choky, clink, confinement, duress, gaol, hold, jail, jug, kitty, limbo, lock, lockup, mew, pen, penitentiary, pokey, pound, prison, prison house, quod, shop, shut off, shutter, shuttle, stockade), закрепвам въже със стопор, запушвам (bung, close, obstruct, obturate, occlude, plug, plug up, stop, stop up, stopple, stuff, wad, wall up), запушалка (choke, obturator, peg, plug, spile, tampion, tap, wad). (various references)

Chinese 

停止者. (various references)

Czech

zátka (bung, Cork, plug, tap), uzávìr (bolt, cover, fastening, lock, locking device, seal, snap, top). (various references)

Danish

stopperstang (stopper rod, stopper rod assembly), stopper (retainer), stik (electric plug, plug), spartelmasse (filler, knifing filler, spackle, surfacer), skrueprop (blanking bolt, screw plug, screwed plug, threaded plug), prop (cork). (various references)

Dutch

stop (electric plug, patch, plug, stop), stopmiddel (adstringent, electric plug, plug), stekker (electric plug, plug), prop (chunk, clod, electric plug, lump, plug), plug (electric plug, plug). (various references)

Esperanto

ŝtopilo (electric plug, plug). (various references)

Faeroese

tøppur (cork, electric plug, faucet, plug, tap). (various references)

Farsi 

چوب پنبه (Cork), توپی (Plug, Spigot, Spile), سربطری (Plug), جلوگیری کننده (Inhibiter, Preventive, Prohibitive), باچوب پنبه بستن , بادریچه بستن . (various references)

Finnish

silote (filler, knifing filler, spackle), tulppa (bung, plug), tappi (pin, plug, tap, tenon), täyteväri (filler, knifing filler, spackle), ruuvitulppa (blanking bolt, screw plug, screwed plug, threaded plug), pysäytinrengas, pullontulppa, korkki (bottle top, cork). (various references)

French

bouchon (stop), stoppeur. (various references)

German

Stöpsel (cork, electric plug, Jack, little fellow, peg, pegs, plug), Pfropfen (block, blockage, bung, clog, clot, Cork, cram, electric plug, graft, pack, plug, plug up, stop up, stop(per), wad), stopper (center half, end-piece, timekeeper), stopfen (be filling, block, bolt down one's food, bundle, clog, constipate, Cork, cram, darn, darning, fill, jam, jam in, mend, mute, pack, plug, plug up, ram, stop, stop up, stuff, stuff oneself, to darn, wad), pfropf (blockage, bung, clot, Cork, plug, thrombus, wad). (various references)

Greek 

πώμα (bung, cap, lid, plug), τάπα (bung, cap, spigot, spile). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעצור (balk, baulk, block, brake, check, curb, hindrance, inhibition, jam, obstacle, rein, restraint, trammel), מ�'ופ�" (lid stopper, plug, plug cork, spigot), מ�'וף (sluice), מסתם (caulker, plug), פקק (bung, gag, logjam, peg, plug, spigot, tap), בלם (barrier, brake, brake gear), בולם (inhibitive). (various references)

Hungarian

stopper (stop watch, stopwatch, timer), stopperóra (chronograph, stopwatch, time check, timer), fékkötélbog, akadék, dugó (bung, cork, peg, plug, spill, stopple, stud, tap), dugasz (bung, jack, obturator, tampion, tap), elreteszelő, elzáró (damper, obturating, occlusive), elzáró elem, üvegdugó (glass stopper), fékcsat, fogás (catch, catching, clasp, clench, course, decrement, dish, grasp, grip, handle, hold, knack, prehension, touch, trick, tweak), fogólap, kábelrögzítő, kötélrögzítő, láncfék, fék (brake, break, check, curb). (various references)

Indonesian

sumpal, sumbat (cork, gag, pledget, tampion, wadding). (various references)

Italian

turacciolo (Cork), tappo (bung, cap, Cork, plug, top). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� " (cork, stopcock), 共� " , ストックホル� 症候群 (stock point, Stockhom syndrome, stomach, stop, stop bit, stop motion, stoplight, stopwatch, straight, straight course, straight perm, straight permanent wave, straight punch, strap, strategy, streaker, streaking, stream, streamer, street, street angel, street furniture, street girl, streetcar, streetwalker, streptomycin, stress, stretch, stretching, stride, strike, strike zone, striker, string, strings, strip, strip girl, strip mill, strip show, stripe, stripper, striptease, structure), セル付 (10^-2, a center, bottle cap, celery, cellophane tape, center, centering, centi-, centimeter, centre, ceremony, facility providing funeral services, good sense, Scotch tape, select, selection, selector, selenium, sensation, sensational, sensor, serenade, with a self-starter). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

せ�" (at length, attentively, beam, before, boastfully usurping, boil down, broil, carefully, choice, clip, compilation, cork, deeply, editing, fire, former, gland, hermit, hundredth of a yen, late, line, old, parch, precedence, previous, priority, profoundly, roast, selection, snip, stopcock, the future, thousand, wire, wizard), ストッパー , セン (bottle cap), ともせ�". (various references)

Manx

stappeyder, scuirreyder (buffer-stop), dull, cur caag ayn, caag (ingot, linchpin). (various references)

Pig Latin

opperstay.(various references)

Portuguese

rolha (cork, plug, stop, stopple), bujão (plug, stop, stopple), tampa (cork, cover, dust-cover, envelope, lid, stopgap, tampion), bucha (bush, padding, plug, stopgap, tampion, wad). (various references)

Romanian

piedicã (balk, bar, brake, check, clog, cumber, delay, difficulty, drag, drawback, embargo, encumbrance, fetter, hindrance, hitch, hold back, impediment, interference, jog, lock, marplot, objection, obstacle, obstruction, pull back, sear, set back, sprag, stay, stop, stopple, stumbling-bloc, trammel, traverse, trigger), dop (Cork, float, peg, stop, wad), astupãtoare (choke, Cork, cover), astupa (bar, block, bung, clog, close, fill, obstruct, occlude, plug, stop), închide (bar, block, bolt, cage, chest, clap up, clasp, clench, close, closet, comprise, confine, contain, crib, darken, embay, enclose, fasten, furl, girdle, half-shut, heal, hem, impound, imprison, include, lock, occlude, seal, shut, shut down, shut in, shut the works down). (various references)

Russian 

пробка (bibb, cap, spigot, tap). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zapušač (bung, cork, corker, plug, stopple, tap). (various references)

Spanish

tapón (cap, capful, cover, plug, stopple, tampion, tampon, wad, wadding). (various references)

Swedish

propp (Bibb, bung, cutout, fuse, obturator, plug, spigot, stopple). (various references)

Turkish

tapa (fuse, fuze, spile, spill, stopple), tıpa takmak (tap), tıpa (bung, Cork, plug, stopple, tampon, wad), tıkaç takmak, tıkaç (bung, Cork, filler, gag, packing, plug, spigot, spill, stopple, tampon, wad, wadding), durdurucu (inhibitor, suspensive), dikkat çeken şey (cynosure, eye-catcher). (various references)

Turkmen 

dyky (cork). (various references)

Ukrainian

стопорити, стопор (catch, detent), чіп (microchip, obturator, spill), закупорювати (bottle up, bung, obstruct, occlude, oppilate, plug up, stopple), пробка (hold up, logjam, obturator, plug, stopping, stopple, tap). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật l� m ngừng, vật chặn lại nút, người l� m ngừng, người chặn lại. (various references)

Welsh

topyn (plug). (various references)

serraculum. (various references)

fausset. (various references)

bonge, plugge. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "stopper": stoppered, stoppering, stoppers. (additional references)

Words ending with "stopper": showstopper, unstopper. (additional references)

Words containing "stopper": showstoppers, unstoppered, unstoppering, unstoppers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stopper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: stapper, stipper, stopa, stoper, stoppa, stoppe, stoppen, Stoppit, Storper, stuper. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: toppers.

-1 letter: poster, presto, repots, respot, stoper, topers, topper, tropes.

-2 letters: estop, pepos, perps, pesto, poets, popes, pores, ports, poser, preps, prest, props, prose, prost, repos, repot, repps, ropes, roset, rotes, spore, sport, stope, store, strep, strop, toper, topes, tores, torse, trope.

-3 letters: epos, eros, erst, opes, opts, ores, orts, pepo, peps, perp, pert, peso.

+1 letter: prophets, propjets, prospect, stoppers, stropped, stropper, trappose.

+2 letters: postponer, preadopts, prompters, promptest, properest, proptoses, prospects, pteropods, spaceport, stoppered, stroppers, stroppier, superport, supported, supporter, unstopper, uppermost.

+3 letters: apostrophe, approbates, cartoppers, epistrophe, leptospire, notepapers, pinspotter, postponers, preceptors, preemptors, promptness, propagates, propensity, properties, prophetess, proponents, propretors, prospected, prospector, prospectus, prosperity, prototypes, reappoints, saprophyte, spaceports, sporophyte, stoppering, stroppiest, superports, suppletory, supporters, supportive, tropopause, unstoppers.