stops

[stops]

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; t

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Noun
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; t


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Usage Examples

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

A verbal art like poetry is reflective it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write.

He is a very positive captain he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

A teacher affects eternity he can never tell where his influence stops.

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