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stops

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stopsnoun

    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

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  1. stops

    Stops can refer to various actions, events, or places, depending on the context. Generally, they refer to: 1. The act of ceasing movement, operation, or progress. 2. A place designated for a vehicle to halt and pick up or drop off passengers. 3. A punctuation mark used to indicate the end of a sentence. 4. A feature on a musical instrument that alters the sound it produces. 5. In finance, it's a predetermined price at which an order can be executed. 6. In phonetics, it is a consonant sound produced by completely blocking airflow from the lungs and then releasing it.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. STOPS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Stops is ranked #91221 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Stops surname appeared 202 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Stops.

    49.5% or 100 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
    39.6% or 80 total occurrences were White.
    8.4% or 17 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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British National Corpus

  1. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'stops' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3353

Anagrams for stops »

  1. posts

  2. spots

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of stops in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of stops in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of stops in a Sentence

  1. Gordon Chang:

    These words really don't mean anything until China stops buying Russian commodities, and it stops letting Russian institutions use its financial system, and it stops its propaganda that is amplifying Russia's ludicrous positions, these comments are fascinating, but nonetheless, I want to see action rather than words. RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE : LIVE UPDATES Beijing and Moscow have cultivated close ties in recent years, with Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping declaring last month that.

  2. Oliver Cromwell:

    He who stops being better stops being good.

  3. A Bartlett Giamatti:

    It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.

  4. Rupert Murdoch:

    The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

  5. Rabbi Scheinberg:

    We are going to stand very forcefully – right now. We want to send a message – this is not going to be tolerated – not paint, not bricks tomorrow, not blood later. It stops right here and it stops dead in its tracks. they have been a global source of inspiration and encouragement to the Jewish people.

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    repetition of the ends of two or more successive sentences, verses, etc.
    • A. allogamy
    • B. epiphora
    • C. profaneness
    • D. howdah

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