English-Thai Dictionary
stope
N การ ขุด เหมือง เป็น ขั้นบันได บ่อ เหมือง
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
STOPE
Stope, n. Etym: [Cf. Step, n. & v. i.] (Mining )
Defn: A horizontal working forming one of a series, the working faces of which present the appearance of a flight of steps.
STOPE
Stope, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stoped; p. pr. & vb. n. Stoping. ] (Mining )(a ) To excavate in the form of stopes. (b ) To fill in with rubbish, as a space from which the ore has been worked out.
STOPE; STOPEN
STOPE; STOPEN Stope, Sto "pen, p. p. of Step.
Defn: Stepped; gone; advanced. [Obs. ] A poor widow, somedeal stope in age. Chaucer.
New American Oxford Dictionary
stope
stope |stōp stoʊp | ▶noun (usu. stopes ) a steplike part of a mine where minerals are being extracted. ▶verb [ no obj. ] (usu. as noun stoping ) (in mining ) excavate a series of steps or layers in (the ground or rock ). • (as noun stoping ) Geology the process by which country rock is broken up and removed by the upward movement of magma. ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: apparently related to the noun step .
Stopes, Marie
Stopes, Marie |stəʊps | (1880 –1958 ), Scottish birth-control campaigner; full name Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes. Her book Married Love (1918 ) was a frank treatment of sexuality within marriage. In 1921 she founded the pioneering Mothers' Clinic for Birth Control in London.
Oxford Dictionary
stope
stope |stəʊp | ▶noun (usu. stopes ) a step-like working in a mine. ▶verb [ no obj. ] (usu. as noun stoping ) (in mining ) excavate a series of steps or layers in (the ground or rock ). • (as noun stoping ) Geology the process by which country rock is broken up and removed by the upward movement of magma. ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: apparently related to the noun step .
Stopes, Marie
Stopes, Marie |stəʊps | (1880 –1958 ), Scottish birth-control campaigner; full name Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes. Her book Married Love (1918 ) was a frank treatment of sexuality within marriage. In 1921 she founded the pioneering Mothers' Clinic for Birth Control in London.