Stops is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for STOPS in dictionary:

VERB:
• STOP, to halt or discontinue
• (of an event, action, or process) come to an end; cease to happen
• cease to perform a specified action or have a specified experience
• abandon a specified practice or habit
• stop moving or operating
• (of a bus or train) call at a designated place to pick up or set down passengers
• stay somewhere for a short time
• cause (an action, process, or event) to come to an end
• prevent (an action or event) from happening
• prevent or dissuade (someone) from continuing in an activity or achieving an aim
• prevent (someone or something) from performing a specified action or undergoing a specified experience
• cause or order to cease moving or operating
• be hit by (a bullet).
• instruct a bank to withhold payment on (a cheque)
• refuse to supply as usual; withhold or deduct
• defeat (an opponent) by a knockout
• pinch back (a plant).
• block or close up (a hole or leak)
• put a filling in (a tooth).
• plug the upper end of (an organ pipe), giving a note an octave lower.
• obtain the required pitch from (the string of a violin or similar instrument) by pressing at the appropriate point with the finger.
• make (a rope) fast with a stopper.
• be or behave in a particular way
• remain in a particular state or condition
• block the mouth of (a fox's earth) prior to a hunt.
NOUN:
• a cessation of movement or operation
• a break or halt during a journey
• a place designated for a bus or train to halt and pick up or set down passengers
• an object or part of a mechanism which is used to prevent something from moving
• a punctuation mark, especially a full stop.
• used in telegrams to indicate a full stop
• a consonant produced with complete closure of the vocal tract
• a high card that prevents the opponents from establishing a particular suit; a control
• a short length of rope used to secure something; a stopper.
• a set of organ pipes of a particular tone and range of pitch.
• a knob, lever, or similar device in an organ or harpsichord which brings into play a set of pipes or strings of a particular tone and range of pitch.
• the effective diameter of a lens.
• a device for reducing the effective diameter of a lens.
• a unit of change of relative aperture or exposure (with a reduction of one stop equivalent to halving it).
• a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to discontinue the progress or motion of

Words related to STOPS

stop6 stopped12 stopping13 stopt7

How to use STOPS in a sentence

• The professional comes up to the scratch when wanted and stops when the performance is not required.
• When one species, therefore, has begun to sing, another has ceased, so that, at whatever time of the year the traveller stops, he hears but few birds engaged in song.
• And when either praise or censure stops, the object of it is apparently forgotten for a time, except by the few who are learned.
• Often I found that I had alighted from the bus a few stops before or after my destination.
• Thought stops, breath stops, I can see and hear no more.
• We were to start for Tramecourt now, but on the way we were to make a couple of stops.
• At first there were a good many stops, but on the whole the engines seemed to be improving all the time.
• The telephone is so common that no one stops to consider the wonder of it, and not one person in a hundred can tell how it works.
• Having earned his breakfast, he usually stops then, and cools down a bit.
• As soon as the music stops, all rush to get into their seats.
• If any couple is left on a rug or within a circle when the music stops playing, that couple drops out of the march.
• When the music again stops, the men will be opposite new partners and these partners must face each other and converse on some subject suggested by the leader.
• The instant the music stops each player tries to sit in a chair.
• Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.
• She leads the pack-train, and where she stops the mules gather around her while waiting for the men to come and relieve them of their burdens.
• When you apply the brakes to the train, the train stops.
• I shall look out for the telegraph boy the moment the train stops at the station.
• The same picture of utter confusion was presented at all the stops and all the stations on the way.
• Thou longest to know it, And I to tell thee, but shame stops my mouth.
• We are on a weird, adventurous journey, and make but brief stops, however attractive the strangers or acquaintance we meet.
• Obviously, the most sensible thing would be to get a set of stops made to correspond with this arrangement, but we will see how we can construct a table for stops of any size.
• Such mistakes will be avoided if the speaker stops to think what the form would be if the pronoun were not coupled with a noun.
• Now he stops, shakes his head from side to side, and darts away again across the pool, leaping high out of water.
• Augustine, who stops one ear with his tail and presses the other against the dust.
• Then, she stops working and lets him toil for both, with the hope that the budget shall not be diminished by increasing family demands.

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