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stopper

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Etymology

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From stop +‎ -er.

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Noun

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stopper (plural stoppers)

  1. 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.
  2. A type of knot at the end of a rope, to prevent it from unravelling.
    Put a stopper in the knot.
  3. A bung or cork.
    We need a stopper or the boat will sink.
  4. (slang, soccer) Goalkeeper.
    He's the number one stopper in the country.
    • 2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC‎[1]:
      And just before the interval, Kolarov, who was having one of his better games in a City shirt, fizzed in a cracker from 30 yards which the Wolves stopper unconvincingly pushed behind for a corner.
  5. (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.
  6. (rail transport) A train that calls at all or almost all stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
    • 1996, Susan Sallis, Touched by Angels‎[2], Random House, page 300:
      The local train was empty at midday. She changed at Yatton and caught a stopper into Bristol. There was an express calling at Exeter which left Bristol at twelve-forty-five and she caught it by the skin of her teeth.
    • 2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 39, photo caption:
      Changing times at Barnham on December 8 2022. Southern 313211 is an all-stations stopper.
  7. (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
  8. (nautical) A short rope for making something fast.
  9. A playspot where water flows back on itself, creating a retentive feature.

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stopper (third-person singular simple present stoppers, present participle stoppering, simple past and past participle stoppered)

  1. To close a container by using a stopper.
    He tightly stoppered the decanter, thinking the expensive liqueur had been evaporating.
    The diaphragmatic spasm of his hiccup caused his epiglottis to painfully stopper his windpipe with a loud "hic".

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stopper

  1. present of stoppe

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Noun

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stopper m (plural stoppers, diminutive stoppertje n)

  1. stop (device to block path)

French

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Etymology

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1792, from English stop.

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stopper

  1. to stop, in regard to motors and machines
    Une puissante voiture de marque étrangère stoppa au bout de l’avenue Ruysdaël, tout près de l’entrée du parc Monceau.
    A powerful foreign car stopped at the end of Ruysdaël Avenue, very close to the entrance to Monceau Park.
  2. (colloquial) to take (a hit, a bullet)
    Il avait stoppé un coquet gnon derrière les oreilles, mais il n’était pas mort.
    He'd taken a nice, hard punch behind his ears, but he wasn't dead.
  3. (colloquial) to stop
    Synonym: (more formal) arrêter
    il faut stopper cette hostilité permanente
    This permanent hostility must be stopped.

Conjugation

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Conjugation of stopper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple stopper
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple stoppant
/stɔ.pɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle stoppé
/stɔ.pe/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on 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 – tu – nous vous –
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 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

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Verb

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stopper

  1. present of stoppe
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