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stoppings

stoppings is the plural of stopping.

Meaning of stopping

Noun

stopping (plural stoppings)

  1. The act of something that stops; a halt.
    • constant startings and stoppings
    Synonyms:
    hiatus
  2. (dated) Material for filling a cavity in a tooth.
    • an amalgam stopping
    Synonyms:
    filling
  3. 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.
    • The drawing poultices and stoppings of farriers are often highly injurious, instead of abating inflammation .1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse

Questions about stoppings

What is stoppings the plural of?
Stoppings is the plural of stopping.

Words near stoppings in the dictionary

  1. stopping two gaps with one bush
  2. stopping up
  3. stopping-out
  4. stopping-outs
  5. stoppingly
  6. stoppings
  7. stoppit
  8. stopple
  9. stoppled
  10. stopples
  11. stoppling

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stoppings (page history and authors); stopping (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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