Stopper

(noun.) (bridge) a playing card with a value sufficiently high to insure taking a trick in a particular suit; 'if my partner has a spade stopper I can bid no trump'.

(verb.) close or secure with or as if with a stopper; 'She stoppered the wine bottle'; 'The mothers stoppered their babies' mouths with pacifiers'.

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• He put the round head of his cane in his mouth, like a stopper, when he sat down. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I discovered the bottle, carefully guarded by a glass stopper tied over with leather. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Close the mouth of the tube with a one-hole rubber stopper in which is fitted a long, narrow tube, and clamp the test tube to an iron support, as shown in Figure 22. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• At No. 4 liquid air imprisoned in a tube and tightly corked up, blows the stopper out in a few minutes with explosive effect. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• At the inner hall-door, another bottle seemed to be presented and another stopper taken out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• If the glass stopper is removed and the air is allowed to reenter the flask, the loudness of the sound immediately increases. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• A sallow flabbiness was upon him when he took the stopper out, and presented the bottle to Mr Clennam's nose. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• If a stopper is left off a cologne bottle, the contents of the bottle will slowly evaporate; if a dish of water is placed out of doors on a hot day, evaporation occurs very rapidly. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• This should be kept ready for use in a small bottle with a good-fitting stopper. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• They had not yet tried beer with so much fullness as other articles, but about nine months ago a small quantity was treated and left exposed to the air, with only a loose stopper of cotton wool. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• I opened some of the bottles, smelt them, and put the stoppers to my lips. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The mixture should be preserved in bottles with glass stoppers, as the benzine is very volatile. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• It can be used with a common pen, but must be kept in bottles coated inside with paraffine, beeswax, or gutta-percha, with rubber stoppers. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The pigeons and the steak have been preserved raw in stoppered bottles since the 21st of last November and the eggs since the 4th of July, 1881. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• I looked at the board tables, the instruments shining in the light, the basins and the stoppered bottles. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• What I wanted was a metal box which might be soldered, or a thick glass jar or bottle which might be stoppered or sealed hermetically. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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