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S0781000 (stŏp′ĭj)n. The act of stopping or the condition of being stopped; a halt: called for a work stoppage.

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(ˈstɒpɪdʒ) n1. the act of stopping or the state of being stopped2. something that stops or blocks3. (Industrial Relations & HR Terms) a deduction of money, as from pay4. (Industrial Relations & HR Terms) an organized cessation of work, as during a strike

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n. 1. an act or instance of stopping. 2. the state of being stopped or obstructed. 3. a cessation of activity, esp. work; strike. [1400–50]

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armistice - Comes from Latin armistitium—from arma, "arms," and -stitium, "stoppage"—and means a temporary cessation from fighting or the use of arms, or a short truce.
solstice - Derived from the Latin sol, "Sun," and stitium, "stoppage," as the Sun appears to stand still on the first day of winter.
epoch - Pronounced EH-puhk, it is from Greek epokhe, "fixed point in time, stoppage," and it was first the initial point in a chronology from which succeeding years were numbered.
stasis - A period of inactivity or equilibrium, from Greek histanai, "stoppage."

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	stoppage - 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"halt, hitch, stay, arrest, check, stopinaction, inactiveness, inactivity - the state of being inactivecountercheck - a check that restrains another checklogjam - any stoppage attributable to unusual activity; "the legislation ran into a logjam"
	2.	stoppage - an obstruction in a pipe or tube; "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"blockage, occlusion, closure, block, stopbreech closer, breechblock - a metal block in breech-loading firearms that is withdrawn to insert a cartridge and replaced to close the breech before firingimpedimenta, obstruction, obstructor, obstructer, impediment - any structure that makes progress difficultplug, stopple, stopper - blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightlyvapor lock, vapour lock - a stoppage in a pipeline caused by gas bubbles (especially a stoppage that develops in hot weather in an internal-combustion engine when fuel in the gas line boils and forms bubbles that block the flow of gasoline to the carburetor)
	3.	stoppage - the act of stopping something; "the third baseman made some remarkable stops"; "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"stophuman action, human activity, act, deed - something that people do or cause to happenstanddown, stand-down - (military) a temporary stop of offensive military actionhaemostasia, haemostasis, hemostasia, hemostasis - surgical procedure of stopping the flow of blood (as with a hemostat)

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noun1. stopping, halt, standstill, close, arrest, lay-off, shutdown, cutoff, abeyance, discontinuance a seven-hour stoppage by air-traffic controllers2. strike, industrial action, walkout, closure, shutdown Mineworkers have voted for a one-day stoppage next month.3. blockage, obstruction, stopping up, occlusion The small traffic disturbance will soon grow into a complete stoppage.

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noun1. The act of stopping:cessation, check, cut-off, discontinuance, discontinuation, halt, stay, stop, surcease.2. The condition of being stopped:cessation, discontinuance, discontinuation, halt, standstill, stop, surcease.3. A cessation of normal activity, caused by an accident or strike, for example:gridlock, immobilization, jam, tie-up.

Translations

中止停止

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(stop) – past tense, past participle stopped – verb1. to (make something) cease moving, or come to rest, a halt etc. He stopped the car and got out; This train does not stop at Birmingham; He stopped to look at the map; He signalled with his hand to stop the bus.停止2. to prevent from doing something. We must stop him (from) going; I was going to say something rude but stopped myself just in time.阻止3. to discontinue or cease eg doing something. That woman just can't stop talking; The rain has stopped; It has stopped raining.停4. to block or close. He stopped his ears with his hands when she started to shout at him.堵塞5. to close (a hole, eg on a flute) or press down (a string on a violin etc) in order to play a particular note. （音乐）按（孔）、按（弦）以改变音调 6. to stay. Will you be stopping long at the hotel?停留 noun1. an act of stopping or state of being stopped. We made only two stops on our journey; Work came to a stop for the day. 停留，逗留 2. a place for eg a bus to stop. a bus stop.停车站3. in punctuation, a full stop. Put a stop at the end of the sentence.句号4. a device on a flute etc for covering the holes in order to vary the pitch, or knobs for bringing certain pipes into use on an organ. （管风琴的）音栓，音节栓 5. a device, eg a wedge etc, for stopping the movement of something, or for keeping it in a fixed position. a door-stop. 阻塞物，挡块 ˈstoppage (-pidʒ) noun (an) act of stopping or state or process of being stopped. The building was at last completed after many delays and stoppages. 停止，中止 ˈstopper noun an object, eg a cork, that is put into the neck of a bottle, jar, hole etc to close it. 塞子ˈstopping noun a filling in a tooth. One of my stoppings has come out. （补牙用）填料 ˈstopcock noun a tap and valve for controlling flow of liquid through a pipe. 管闩ˈstopgap noun a person or thing that fills a gap in an emergency. He was made headmaster as a stopgap till a new man could be appointed; (also adjective) stopgap arrangements.临时代替者或代用品ˈstopwatch noun a watch with a hand that can be stopped and started, used in timing a race etc. 秒表，跑表 put a stop to to prevent from continuing. We must put a stop to this waste.制止stop at nothing to be willing to do anything, however dishonest etc, in order to get something. He'll stop at nothing to get what he wants. 无所不为，不择手段 stop dead to stop completely. I stopped dead when I saw him.突然停住stop off to make a halt on a journey etc. We stopped off at Edinburgh to see the castle.中途停留stop over to make a stay of a night or more: We're planning to stop over in Amsterdam ( noun ˈstop-over) 留宿stop up to block. Some rubbish got into the drain and stopped it up.堵塞

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noun stopping

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