Stoppage
['stɒpɪdʒ] or ['stɑpɪdʒ]
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Obstruction, hinderance, interruption, prevention.
Editor: Omar
Examples
- He had hardly made the determination (though he was not long about it), when he was again as suddenly brought up as he had been by the stoppage. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Indeed, once started, this station was operated uninterruptedly for eight years with only insignificant stoppage. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In warm weather the liquid in the cell may dry up and cause stoppage of the current. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This stoppage of Lee's column no doubt saved to us the trains following. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Who have found out the perpetual stoppage. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There was the usual stoppage at the barrier guardhouse, and the usual lanterns came glancing forth for the usual examination and inquiry. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Means were provided to start and to stop the car, and to retard its otherwise sudden fall and stoppage. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- September 4, 1882, he turned the current on to the mains for the needed light service, and it stayed on with only one short stoppage for eight years. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Stoppage of rush. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Hence when Mr. Brooke noddingly appealed to that motive, Sir James felt a sudden embarrassment; there was a stoppage in his throat; he even blushed. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But she had made a previous stoppage on the second floor and had silently pointed at a dark door there. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Sir James made little stoppages between his clauses, the words not coming easily. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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