A Stop list is a series of words that you may choose to exclude from a particular operation because you deem them to be irrelevant or obstructive to your analysis task. If you are searching for descriptive terms for example, you may choose to exclude function words normally occuring as part of everyday speech. Your interest may lie only in extraordinary words. For more information... TAPoRize
A list of words, terms, or roots of words or terms to be ignored in indexing or information retrieval, e.g. a, an, the.
"Noise" words like a, an, and the which are excluded from inclusion in automatic index and glossary compilations.