stopping
part of speech
verb (present participle of stop: stop, stops, stopped, stopping); noun (stopping, uncountable)
meaning for a pupil
1) Stopping means coming to an end or no longer moving: The bus is stopping. tree →
2) Stopping can mean making someone or something stop: stopping the ball. tree →
3) Stopping can mean staying somewhere for a short time: We are stopping at Gran's tonight. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, stopping a moving object needs a force (brakes use friction); a fast car needs a longer stopping distance, especially on wet or icy roads, which is why you must never step out in front of traffic. In stories, stopping shows a pause in action. Phrases: stopping distance, without stopping, non-stop, stopping by.
examples
- The train is stopping at the next station. tree →
- Rain is not stopping soon. tree →
- Cars need a long stopping distance on wet roads. tree →
- The goalkeeper is good at stopping penalties. tree →
- He ran without stopping. tree →
- We are stopping at a café for lunch. tree →
- Brakes make the bike stop by friction. tree →
- Thank you for stopping by. tree →
note
Double p: stopping, stopped. «Stop doing» means you no longer do it (stop eating); «stop to do» means you pause in order to do something (stop to eat). In maths/science, stopping distance = thinking distance + braking distance.
In the corpora
- Retiring means stopping paid work for good, usually in your sixties, and living on a pension and savings.
- The third swallow tried «stopping on» one year: «O the weary length of the nights!
- River come to», or «the rain is stopping, come down to the river».
- "Fell off the wagon" means started drinking again after stopping.
- Stopping over a longer time makes a landing or a bump gentler.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «stopping» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.