stopping lietuviškai

Paaiškinimas anglų kalba

• the kind of playing that involves pressing the fingers on the strings of a stringed instrument to control the pitch "the violinist's stopping was excellent"
• fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members
• (dentistry) a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place
• fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug "plug the hole" "stop up the leak"
• stop doing what one is doing "At midnight, the student decided to call it quits and closed his books"
• put out, as of fires, flames, or lights "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained" "quench the flames" "snuff out the candles"
• remain in place; hold still; remain fixed or immobile "Traffic stood still when the funeral procession passed by"
• a brief stay in the course of a journey "they made a stopover to visit their friends"
• the act of stopping something "the third baseman made some remarkable stops" "his stoppage of the flow resulted in a flood"
• an obstruction in a pipe or tube "we had to call a plumber to clear out the blockage in the drainpipe"