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Definition of stopped up in English English dictionary
- stop up
- To increase the aperture of a photographic lens, moving from an f/stop represented by a higher number to an f/stop represented by a lower number and causing more light to pass into the camera
To stop down means to narrow the aperture; to stop up or open up means to expand it.
- stop up
- To fill a hole or cavity, or block an opening or passage, as with a plug
So then we . . . scratched around and found an old tin washpan, and stopped up the holes as well as we could.
- stop up
- fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug; "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak"
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stäpt ʌpPronunciation
/ˈstäpt ˈəp/ /ˈstɑːpt ˈʌp/
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