Stopper is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STOPPER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to seal with a stopper
• use a stopper to seal (a bottle or other container)
• To close or secure with a stopper.
• close or secure with or as if with a stopper
• close or fit with a stopper
NOUN:
• a plug, usually glass, for a bottle
• a plug for sealing a hole, especially in the neck of a bottle or other container.
• a person or thing that halts or obstructs a specified thing
• (in soccer or American football) a player whose function is to block attacks on goal from the middle of the field.
• a starting pitcher depended on to win a game or reverse a losing streak, or a relief pitcher who prevents the opposing team from scoring highly.
• (in sailing or climbing) a rope or clamp for preventing a rope or cable from being run out.
• plug for closing a bottle etc
• One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.
• A short piece of rope having a knot at one or both ends, with a lanyard under the knot, -- used to secure something.
• A name to several trees of the genus Eugenia, found in Florida and the West Indies; as, the red stopper. See Eugenia.
• an act so striking or impressive that the show must be delayed until the audience quiets down
• a remark to which there is no polite conversational reply
• (bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit
• blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to plug

Words related to STOPPER

stoppered14 stoppering15 stoppers12 stopple11

Words that contain STOPPER

stoppers12 stoppered14 unstopper13 gobstopper17 stoppering15 unstoppers14 gobstoppers18 showstopper21 unstoppered16 showstoppers22 unstoppering17

How to use STOPPER in a sentence

• The magnet, which consisted of a bar of hardened steel, was fixed in a cork stopper, which completely closed the end of an upright glass tube.
• I broke away the parchment, and withdrew the stopper.
• Dick found, to his great satisfaction, that the stopper was fast and the powder perfectly dry.
• The stopper is then turned so as to cut off the urine in the latter from that in the large tube, and the latter is thus made tight.
• Thus in one position of the stopper there is a communication between the tube and the outer air, while in all other positions the tube is quite shut.
• This was successfully done also, and Mark let go the stopper within twenty feet of the wall of the sunken reef, just as the ship began to drive astern.
• A large stone had been so placed within the entrance that it might have served for a stopper occasionally.
• The tube is closed above by a paraffin stopper which carries a thin quartz window as well as the sulphur tubes through which the connections pass.
• When bottles containing bromine are to be sealed, it is well to grease the stopper.
• She drew out the glass stopper, holding the flask up a moment to the setting sun and letting it blaze through the liquid.
• A pointed stopper secured the mouth, and made a sort of handle to the whole, by which it could be secured to the strap which the hunter slung across his shoulders.
• Insert this tube in the hole in the stopper farthest from the lead plate.
• The lower portion of the block is cut away so it will just fit inside of the cup to form a stopper.
• A hole is made through the center of the stopper large enough to admit a small brass rod.
• The water soon destroys them, but as a new one usually is had each day, they can be used until a regular stopper is obtained.
• Base for 29 Bottle Stopper, New Way to Remove 224 Bowl, Copper, How to Make 185 Box Cover.
• Put a stopper in the bottle, set it near a fire, and shake it occasionally.
• Pour out from the tube a portion of the carbonate, replace the stopper and determine approximately how much has been removed.
• Pour out a small portion of the chloride, replace the stopper, and determine by approximate weighing how much has been removed.
• The flask should be fitted with a two-hole rubber stopper.
• With a chuckle the Greek drew a small bottle from one of his pockets, taking out the stopper and throwing it away.
• C is a screw stopper by which the water may be occasionally replenished.
• It was a decanter-stopper, a little crystal stopper, like those used for the bottles in a liqueur-stand.
• And this crystal stopper had nothing particular about it.
• The hand reached the water-bottle, felt it, rose gently and seized the stopper.
• But upon which? Was he to abandon the trail of the crystal stopper? He could not make up his mind to that.
• In the evening his old nurse told him that, having opened the drawer of the bedside table from curiosity, she had found the crystal stopper there again.
• And the person who brought it back and who enters this house by some unexplained means considered, as I did, that the stopper ought not to disappear.
• He too wanted to avenge his father and, by stealing the crystal stopper, to avenge himself on Daubrecq for the harm which he had done him.
• And that is why I replaced the stopper in the cupboard before its absence was noticed.
• He worked out the whole story of the crystal stopper.

Similar words containing STOPP without suffix er

stopped12 stopple11 estopped13 estoppel12 stoppage13 stoppers12 stopping13 stoppled13 stopples12 estoppage14 estoppels13 estopping14 stoppable15 stoppages14 stoppered14 stoppings14 stoppling14 unstopped14 unstopper13 estoppages15 gobstopper17 misstopped17 stoppering15 unstoppers14 unstopping15 backstopped24 gobstoppers18 misstopping18 showstopper21 unstoppable17 unstoppably20 unstoppered16 backstopping25 showstoppers22 showstopping23 unstoppering17

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