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STOPS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
boodle; Chicago; Michigan; Newmarket; stops
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("stops" is a kind of...):
card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb stop
Context examples:
Any microtubule process that stops, prevents or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of microtubule depolymerization.
(Negative Regulation of Microtubule Depolymerization, NCI Thesaurus)
Nexavar stops cancer cells from dividing and may prevent the growth of new blood vessels that tumors need to grow.
(Nexavar, NCI Dictionary)
“Here it is on the stone of the stair also. The demonstration is complete. Let us stay here until a train stops.”
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
MTX stops cells from making DNA and may kill cancer cells.
(MTX, NCI Dictionary)
MORAb-009 binds to mesothelin (a protein that is made by some cancer cells) and stops the cells from dividing.
(MORAb-009, NCI Dictionary)
It stops the growth of bacteria by keeping them from making proteins.
(Doxycycline, NCI Dictionary)
Efudex stops cells from making DNA and it may kill cancer cells.
(Efudex, NCI Dictionary)
Epothilone ZK2219477 stops the growth of tumor cells by blocking cell division.
(epothilone ZK219477, NCI Dictionary)
It stops cancer cells from growing and dividing, and may kill them.
(ABI-007, NCI Dictionary)
A substance that kills bacteria or stops them from growing and causing disease.
(Antibacterial, NCI Dictionary)
