Stall

Noun

 * 1)  A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
 * 2)  A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market.
 * 3) * 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
 * He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
 * 1) A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.
 * 2) * John Updike, Rabbit at Rest,
 * Rabbit eases from the king-size bed, goes into their bathroom with its rose-colored one-piece Fiberglas tub and shower stall, and urinates into the toilet of a matching rose porcelain.
 * 1)  A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage.
 * 2)  Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded or due to an excessive loss of speed.
 * 3)  An altar used in Heathenry, normally for indoor use as opposed to the more substantial outdoor harrow.
 * 4) A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
 * 5) A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
 * 6) * 1910 [1840], Alexandre Dumas, père, translator not mentioned, Celebrated Crimes: Urbain Grandier, P. F. Collier edition,
 * When he had been some months installed there as a priest-in-charge, he received a prebendal stall, thanks to the same patrons, in the collegiate church of Sainte-Croix.
 * 1) A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
 * 2) * 1910 [1840], Alexandre Dumas, père, translator not mentioned, Celebrated Crimes: Urbain Grandier, P. F. Collier edition,
 * When he had been some months installed there as a priest-in-charge, he received a prebendal stall, thanks to the same patrons, in the collegiate church of Sainte-Croix.

Verb

 * 1)  To put (an animal etc) in a stall.
 * 2)  To come to a standstill.
 * 3)  To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in total loss of lift.

Noun

 * 1) An action that is intended to cause or actually causes delay.
 * His encounters with security, reception, the secretary, and the assistant were all stalls until the general manager's attorney arrived.

Verb

 * 1)  To employ delaying tactics against
 * He stalled the creditors as long as he could.
 * 1)  To employ delaying tactics
 * Soon it became clear that she was stalling to give him time to get away.

Thesaurus
Fabian policy, Micawberism, Nissen hut, Quonset hut, acrobatics, aerobatics, alcove, amen corner, anxious bench, anxious seat, area, arrest, artifice, auditorium, backwardness, balcony, banking, barn, be dilatory, block, booth, box, box seat, brake, bring to, bring up, bring up short, byre, cavity, cease fire, cell, cellule, chamber, chandelle, check, checkmate, cloy, come up short, compartment, conk out, coop, corral, cote, counter, cowbarn, cowbyre, cowhouse, cowshed, crabbing, crib, crypt, cubicle, cut short, dally, dam, dawdle, deadlock, delay, die, dilatoriness, dither, dive, diving, draw rein, draw up, dress circle, enclosed space, enclosure, equivocate, fail, fauteuil, fetch up, filibuster, fill, fishtailing, flame out, fold, foot-dragging, freeze, gain time, gallery, gatehouse, glide, glut, go dead, gorge, halt, hang, hang back, hang fire, haver, hedge, hedging, hesitate, hesitation, hold, hold off, hold-off, hole, hollow, hut, hutch, interrupt, jade, kiosk, laxness, lean-to, linger, loge, loiter, lose power, make time, manger, mews, move, mugwump, news kiosk, newsstand, nigger heaven, nose dive, obstructionism, orchestra, orchestra circle, outbuilding, outhouse, pall, paradise, parquet, parquet circle, parterre, pavilion, peanut gallery, pen, penitent form, pew, pit, play for time, power dive, pretext, prevaricate, procrastinate, procrastinating, procrastination, proscenium boxes, pull up, pull-up, pullout, pushdown, put off, put paid to, quarters, quit, remissness, rolling, ruse, sate, section, sedilia, sentry box, shack, shanty, shed, shut down, sideslip, slackness, slot, slow down, slowness, space, spiral, sputter and stop, stable, stalemate, stall for time, stall off, stand, stand off, standing room, stay, stem, stem the tide, stick, stodge, stonewall, stonewalling, stooge around, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short, stratagem, stunting, sty, stymie, subterfuge, surfeit, suspend, table, tactical maneuvers, talk against time, temporization, temporize, theatre stall, tollbooth, tollhouse, trick, vacillate, vault, volplane, waste time, wile, zoom

Pronunciation




Etymology 1
steall:. Confer Dutch stal:, German Stall:, Old Norse stallr:. Cognate with stand:.

Noun

 * Chinese:
 * Simplified: 牲畜棚 (shēngchù péng); 马厩 (mǎjiù); 牛棚 (niúpéng)
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian: stalla


 * Romanian:
 * Russian: стойло
 * Scottish Gaelic:, stàile
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,


 * Armenian:, տաղավար
 * Chinese:, ,
 * Finnish: koju, myyntikoju, kioski
 * German: ,
 * Greek: κιόσκι μικροπωλητή
 * Italian: bancarella, chiosco


 * Portuguese: estande
 * Russian: ларёк,
 * Scottish Gaelic: stàile
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: vibanda
 * Swedish:


 * Chinese:
 * Simplified: 用作厕所 (yòng zuō cèsuǒ), 浴室的小隔间 (yùshì de xiǎo gé jiàn), 卫生间 (wèishēng jiàn)
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish: suihkukaappi
 * Italian: cabina
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: кабинка


 * Chinese:
 * Simplified: 剧场的前排座位 (jùchǎng de qián pái zuòwèi)
 * Finnish:
 * German: Strömungsabriß
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: партер


 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: партер
 * Scottish Gaelic: stàile
 * Swahili: vibanda
 * Swedish: parkettplats


 * Chinese:
 * Simplified: (飞机)失速 ([fēijī] shīsù)
 * Finnish:


 * French:
 * Portuguese: estol
 * Swahili: vibanda

Related terms

 * stall-fed
 * orchestra stalls

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Simplified: 熄火 (xīhuǒ), 抛锚 (pāomáo)
 * Finnish: ,


 * Korean: 정체되다
 * Swahili: vibanda


 * Chinese:
 * Simplified: (飞机)失速 (fēijī shīsù)
 * Dutch: overtrekken


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Swahili: vibanda

Noun

 * Finnish:

Verb

 * Chinese:
 * Simplified: 拖住 (tuō zhù)


 * Finnish:
 * Swahili: vibanda


 * Chinese:
 * Simplified: 拖延(时间) (tuōyán [shíjiān])


 * Swahili: vibanda
 * Swedish: uppehålla

Noun

 * 1) stable, building for housing horses
 * 2) a team in certain sports, in particular racing.

Descendants

 * Finnish: talli