stopping

• (General American) enPR: stŏpʹĭng, IPA^(key): /ˈstɑpɪŋ/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stŏpʹĭng, IPA^(key): /ˈstɒpɪŋ/
• Hyphenation: stop‧ping

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• Rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ

stopping

1. present participle and gerund of stop

stopping (plural stoppings)

1. The act of something that stops; a halt.

   constant startings and stoppings

2. (dentistry, dated) Material for filling a cavity in a tooth.

   Synonym: filling

   an amalgam stopping

   • 1925, Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., page 23:

     curious antiquaries, sifting the ruins of time, when London is a grass-grown path and all those hurrying along the pavement this Wednesday morning are but bones with a few wedding rings mixed up in their dust and the gold stoppings of innumerable decayed teeth

   • 1958, Henno Martin, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, The Sheltering Desert, New York: Thomas Nelson, page 125:

     Then one day a big stopping came out of one of my back teeth.

3. (mining) A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air.
4. A pad or poultice of dung or other material applied to a horse's hoof to keep it moist.
   • 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse

     The drawing poultices and stoppings of farriers are often highly injurious, instead of abating inflammation .

• (act of something that stops): hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause

• Toppings, toppings