A Topical Dictionary: Search for stoppage

Dictionary Results For "stoppage" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Noun

A pause or halt of some activity.
Something that forms an obstacle to continued activity, a blockage.

Translations

Finnish: seisokki, katkos

Finnish: tukos, tukkeuma

fr:stoppage ru:stoppage ta:stoppage te:stoppage vi:stoppage

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Stoppage \Stop"page\, n.
The act of stopping, or arresting progress, motion, or
action; also, the state of being stopped; as, the stoppage of
the circulation of the blood; the stoppage of commerce.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet stoppage
n 1: 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, stop]
2: 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, stop]
3: the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some
remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a
flood" [syn: stop]

Moby Dictionary
Jacksonian epilepsy , Rolandic epilepsy , Z , abdominal epilepsy ,
access , acquired epilepsy , activated epilepsy , affect epilepsy ,
afterthought , akinetic epilepsy , apodosis , apoplexy , arrest ,
arrestation , attack , autonomic epilepsy , bar , barrier , bell , bind ,
blank wall , blind alley , blind gut , block , blockade , blockage ,
bottleneck , bureaucratic delay , cardiac epilepsy , catastrophe ,
ceasing , cecum , cessation , check , checkmate , choking , choking off ,
clog , clonic spasm , clonus , coda , conclusion , congestion ,
constipation , consummation , convulsion , cortical epilepsy ,
costiveness , crack of doom , cramp , cul-de-sac , culmination ,
cursive epilepsy , curtain , curtains , cutoff , dead end , dead stop ,
deadlock , death , debarment , decease , delay , delayage ,
delayed reaction , denouement , destination , destiny , detention ,
determent , deterrence , discouragement , diurnal epilepsy , doom ,
double take , dragging , eclampsia , effect , embolism , embolus , end ,
end point , endgame , ending , envoi , epilepsia , epilepsia gravior ,
epilepsia major , epilepsia minor , epilepsia mitior ,
epilepsia nutans , epilepsia tarda , epilepsy , epilogue , eschatology ,
estoppel , expiration , falling sickness , fate , final solution ,
final twitch , final whistle , final words , finale , finality , finis ,
finish , fit , focal epilepsy , forbiddance , foreclosure ,
forestalling , frenzy , full stop , goal , gorge , grand mal ,
grinding halt , gun , halt , hang-up , haute mal , hindrance , holdup ,
hysterical epilepsy , ictus , impasse , impediment , infarct ,
infarction , interim , izzard , jam , lag , lagging , larval epilepsy ,
laryngeal epilepsy , laryngospasm , last , last breath , last gasp ,
last things , last trumpet , last words , latent epilepsy , latter end ,
lockjaw , lockout , logjam , matutinal epilepsy , menstrual epilepsy ,
moratorium , musicogenic epilepsy , myoclonous epilepsy ,
nocturnal epilepsy , obstacle , obstipation , obstruction , obviation ,
occlusion , omega , paperasserie , paroxysm , pause , payoff , period ,
peroration , petit mal , physiologic epilepsy , preclusion ,
prevention , prohibition , psychic epilepsy , psychomotor epilepsy ,
quietus , red tape , red-tapeism , red-tapery , reflex epilepsy ,
reprieve , resolution , respite , resting place , retardance ,
retardation , rotatoria , sealing off , seizure , sensory epilepsy ,
serial epilepsy , sit-down strike , slow-up , slowdown , slowness ,
spasm , stalemate , stand , standoff , standstill , stay ,
stay of execution , stop , stopping , stopping place , strangulation ,
strike , stroke , suspension , swan song , tardy epilepsy , term ,
terminal , termination , terminus , tetanus , tetany , throes ,
thromboembolism , thrombosis , tie-up , time lag , tonic epilepsy ,
tonic spasm , torsion spasm , traumatic epilepsy , trismus ,
ucinate epilepsy , visitation , wait , walkout , windup ,
work stoppage

Jargon stoppage /sto'p*j/ n. Extreme lossage that renders something (usually
something vital) completely unusable. "The recent system stoppage was
caused by a fried transformer."

FOLDOC stoppage

/sto'p*j/ Extreme lossage that renders something (usually
something vital) completely unusable. "The recent system
stoppage was caused by a fried transformer."

[Jargon File]

(1995-01-24)