Stopped or Stoped - What's the difference?
stopped | stoped |
(stop)
(of a vehicle) Not moving, but not properly parked or berthed;
(more generally) In the state resulting from having stopped.
(of a pipe) Having a stop; being closed at one end.
(of a plant) In a well-pruned state.
(phonetics) Made by complete closure of the organs in the mouth; said of certain consonants such as b'', ''d'', ''p'', and ''t .
(stope)
A mining excavation in the form of a terrace of steps.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, page 318,
(mining) To excavate in the form of stopes.
(mining) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
As verbs the difference between stoped and stopped
is that stoped is past tense of stope while stopped is past tense of stop.As an adjective stopped is
not moving, but not properly parked or berthed; said also of the occupants of such a vehicle.stopped
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- We were stopped for more than three hours!
- ''They passed a stopped car on the side of the road, but realized there was nothing they could do to help.
- A stopped clock is right twice a day.
Derived terms
*stoped
English
Verb
(head)stope
English
Noun
(en noun)- The other smell that worked its way into your clothes, your skin, your spirit, believed here to rise by way of long-deserted drifts and stopes , from the everyday atmosphere of Hell itself.
