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say it: STAH-ping
stopping is a noun meaning "fastener consisting of a narrow strip of welded metal used to join steel members". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stopping come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.