Word: Stall
How to pronounce: stɔːl
Noun
Definitions:
1. A stand, booth, or compartment for the sale of goods in a market or large covered area.
Example sentences: "Fruit and vegetable stalls"
2. An individual compartment for an animal in a stable or barn, enclosed on three sides.
Example sentences: "This configuration recalls the form of traditional livestock barns with a center walkway and animal stalls to each side."
3. A fixed seat in the choir or chancel of a church, more or less enclosed at the back and sides and often canopied, typically reserved for a particular member of the clergy.
Example sentences: "There were so many choir wannabes that they filled the choir platform, the stalls and the circle seats - and outnumbered the audience confined to the upper galleries."
4. The seats on the ground floor in a theater.
Example sentences: "A stalls seat"
5. An instance of an engine, vehicle, aircraft, or boat stalling.
Example sentences: "Speed must be maintained to avoid a stall and loss of control"
Verb
Definitions:
1. (of a motor vehicle or its engine) stop running, typically because of an overload on the engine.
Example sentences: "Her car stalled at the crossroads"
2. Stop or cause to stop making progress.
Example sentences: "His career had stalled, hers taken off"
3. Put or keep (an animal) in a stall, especially in order to fatten it.
Example sentences: "The horses were stalled at Upper Bolney Farm"
Synonyms:
cubicle
tent
booth
kiosk
cabin
carrel
tray
conk
die
stand
conk out
break
fail
stop
pull up
halt
stay
catch
pull
procrastinate
arrest
Derivations:
stalling
stallion
stallholder
stalled
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Stall in Other Languages...
Spanish: Puesto
German: Stall
French: Décrochage
Italian: Stallo
Turkish: Oyalama
