Stall

Definition: Stall

Stall

Noun

1. A compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed.

2. Small area set off by walls for special use.

3. A booth where articles are displayed for sale.

4. A malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge; "the plane went into a stall and I couldn't control it".

5. Small individual study area in a library.

6. A tactic used to mislead or delay.

Verb

1. Postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days".

2. Come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway".

3. Deliberately delay an event or action; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling".

4. Put into, or keep in, a stall.

5. Experience a stall in flight, of airplanes.

6. Cause an airplane to go into a stall.

7. Cause an engine to stop; "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stall" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Stall \Stall\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Stalled; Stalling.]. (references)

Computing

Dream Interpretation

Energy

Mining

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Stall

Abode

Cot, cabin, hut, chalet, croft, shed, booth, stall, hovel, bothy, shanty, dugout, wigwam; pen; (inclosure); barn, bawn; kennel, sty, doghold, cote, coop, hutch, byre; cow house, cow shed; stable, dovecote, columbary, columbarium; shippen; igloo, iglu, jacal; lacustrine dwelling, lacuslake dwelling, lacuspile dwelling; log cabin, log house; shack, shebang, tepee, topek.

Cage, terrarium, doghouse; pen, aviary; barn, stall; zoo.

Churchdom

Pontificate, primacy, archbishopric, archiepiscopacy; prelacy; bishopric, bishopdom; episcopate, episcopacy; see, diocese; deanery, stall; canonry, canonicate; prebend, prebendaryship; benefice, incumbency, glebe, advowson, living, cure; rectorship; vicariate, vicarship; deaconry, deaconship; curacy; chaplain, chaplaincy, chaplainship; cardinalate, cardinalship; abbacy, presbytery.

Covering

Bandage, plaster, lint, wrapping, dossil, finger stall.

Mart

Stall, booth, stand, newsstand; cart, wagon.

Receptacle

Compartment; cell, cellule; follicle; hole, corner, niche, recess, nook; crypt, stall, pigeonhole, cove, oriel; cave; (concavity).

Support

Seat, throne, dais; divan, musnud; chair, bench, form, stool, sofa, settee, stall; arm chair, easy chair, elbow chair, rocking chair; couch, fauteuil, woolsack, ottoman, settle, squab, bench; aparejo, faldstool, horn; long chair, long sleeve chair, morris chair; lamba chauki, lamba kursi; saddle, pannel, pillion; side saddle, pack saddle; pommel.

Temple

Chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher; stall, pew; pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis, credence, baldachin, baldacchino; apse, belfry; chapter house; presbytery; anxious-bench, anxious-seat; diaconicum, jube; mourner's bench, mourner's seat.

Crosswords: Stall

German (barnstable, byre, coop, Cote, cowshed, henhouse, hutch, Mews, pen, pigpen, pigsty, shed, stable, stall, stud, sty), Norwegian (stable, stall, sty), Scottish (craggy steep, overhanging rock), Swedish (barn, bridge, depot, stable).

The longest relationship you ever had was in the bathroom stall at the Viper Room (Grosse Pointe; writing credit: Amy Engelberg; Wendy Engelberg)

You guys choreograph the bathroom stall exit, and I'm the loser (Everwood; writing credit: Michael Green; Rina Mimoun)

Tried to stall him at least long enough to let me leap up (Murder Murder (Remix) *; performing artist: Eminem)

Blood loss in a bathroom stall (Scar Tissue; performing artist: Red Hot Chili Peppers)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Little Faith: The Child of the Toy Stall (reference)

• Stall Buddies (reference)

• The Rise and Stall of Optical Standards in 2002 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Girl feeding a horse in his stall. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wait till he gets to the next stall. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dog seated on hind legs before horse at stall entrance, London, England. Credit: Library of Congress.

Brothers in arms. Typical of the 10,000 Americans who helped to stall Japan's forces on Bataan was Captain Arthur W. Wermuth (left) shown here with his Filipino aide. During the four months of fighting in Bataan, Captain Wermuth and his aide accounted for. Credit: Library of Congress.

Horses at feeding stall. Cornish, Utah. Credit: Library of Congress.

Winslow, Arizona. Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad diesel freight engine coming out of the roundhouse. The entire engine consists of four units, only two of which can be accomodated in a stall at the roundhouse or on the turntable. Credit: Library of Congress.

Refreshment stall in station - Madras Railway. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The merchant walking to and fro in the back part of his stall, suggested the Eternal Father

Rubbish! screamed a fat, elderly woman, in Richard's ear, as he passed her malodorous stall. "Junk!

He looked into the barn shed, deserted, a little ground straw on the floor, and at the mule stall in the corner

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Oman

The absence of a particular clearance will stall the entire process. (references)

Guyana

Most processed foods are imported, primarily by wholesalers who sell to stall owners in markets and to small grocery stores. (references)

Lithuania

Right-wing members of parliament boycotted legislative sessions to stall attempts to form a quorum and successfully forestalled Vagnorius' resignation until June, when a quorum passed a no-confidence motion. (references)

Political Economy

PANAMA

Despite repeated efforts to engage the Government of Panama on the issue, it continues to stall the accession process. (references)

Women

Pakistan

Police tend to investigate the cases poorly, and may not inform women of the need for a medical exam or may stall or block women's attempts to obtain one. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "stall": accelerated stall ♦ angle of stall ♦ approach to stall ♦ Book stall ♦ box stall ♦ coffee stall ♦ compressor stall ♦ continuous stall current ♦ Dean's stall ♦ Decanal stall ♦ finger stall ♦ market stall ♦ news stall ♦ orchestra stall ♦ pipeline stall ♦ post and stall ♦ refreshment stall ♦ shock stall ♦ shower stall ♦ stall bar ♦ stall buffeting ♦ stall dive ♦ stall for time ♦ stall of a turbocompressor ♦ stall off ♦ stall reader ♦ stall vane ♦ stall warning device ♦ Thumb stall. Additional references.

Beginning with "stall": stall-fed, Stall-feed, Stall-feeding, stall-holder, stall-holders, stall-keeper, stall-like, stall-sites, stall-walking.

Ending with "stall": tea-stall.

Containing "stall": in-stall-ed.

Albanian

stendë (board, hoarding, rack, scute, scutum, stand up), stallë (byre, Mews, pen, stockyard, stud), vend parkimi (car park, Park, parking lot), tezgë (bookstall, go cart, hand-barrow, litter, stand, stretcher), rron në stallë, qoshk (carrel, kiosk), ngec në baltë (mire), ndaloj (arrest, balk, ban, bar, baulk, block, break down, cease, challenge, close down, come to a halt, debar, detain, disallow, disqualify, enjoin, estop, forbid, halt, impede, inhibit, interdict, negative, nip, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, pull up, stop, tackle, withhold), grazhd (crib, crib for cattle, feed-trough, horse box, manger, rake for cattle), govatë (cavity, chute, depression, dough-trough, eye socket, eyehole, hollow, manger, seed-can, shoot, tray, trough, washtub), gisht (dactyl, digit, digital, finger, hand, spindle, toe), e ndarë (compartment, parting, pigeonhole, pod, shelf), ahur (byre, cot, cowhouse, cowshed, depository, stable, sty). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حجيرة (cell, cubby), ‏أجل بالمواربة, ‏أمهل (give smb. notice, indulge, reprieve, respite), ‏إنفك (screw off, unscrew, untie), ‏المربط, ‏صالة المغادرة, ‏توقف (break off, breakdown, come to a halt, cut off, demise, discontinue, end, halt, hinge, hitch, lapse, layover, let up, letup, obstruction, pass by, pause, pull up, quit, rest, run down, setback, stand, stay, stop, stop over, stoppage, stopping, touch), ‏أجل (adjourn, carry over, continue, defer, delay, dignify, esteem, glorify, hold over, honor, honour, look up to, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, put back, put off, rather, refer back, regard, remit, set aside, shelve, suspend, table, value, yep, yes), ‏حاول كسب الوقت, ‏كشك (booth, box, hut, kiosk, shack), ‏غمد الإصبع, ‏قاعة عرض السلع, ‏ماطل (delay, postpone, procrastinate, put off, temporize), ‏مقعد في مذبح الكنيسة, ‏مناورة (gambit, maneuver, manoeuvre, opening gambit), ‏مماطلة (postponement, procrastination, temporization), ‏توقف فجأة (balk, clap, cut out, layover, pull up, short). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сергия (booth, stand), сан на каноник, щанд (counter, stand), трон (siege, sitting, throne), шикалкавя (boggle, fence, hedge, quibble, shift, shuffle), отделение в краварник, отделение в конюшня, отделение в обор, загубване на скорост, забой (breast, face, working), поставям ограда в конюшня, поставям ограда в обор, печеля време, палатка (pavilion), дюкянче. (various references)

Chinese 

陳列臺 , 挨 (delay, drag out, endure, in order, in sequence, lean to, next to, play for time, suffer, tree, wood), 摊位 (stalls). (various references)

Czech

stánek (kiosk, stand), stání (hearing, stand, trial), příhrada (compartment), dát do stáje, hrát na èas (try to buy time), křeslo (armchair, chair, easy chair, elbow chair, seat), krámek, nechat zhasnout, bouda (booth, cabin, hoax, hut, hutch), parter, zastavovat se, přízemí (downstairs, ground floor, parterre), výklenek (alcove, bay, niche, recess), vykrmovat, vytáèet se (fence, hedge one's bets, shuffle, tergiversate, wriggle out of), opatřit křesly. (various references)

Danish

stald (stable, sty). (various references)

Dutch

box (acoustic system, box, box stall, cage, cattle crush, crate, crush, cubicle, holding crate, loud-speaker enclosure, speaker system). (various references)

Esperanto

stalo (stable, sty), stalfako. (various references)

Faeroese

stallur (stable, sty), skúr (stable, sty), fjós (stable, sty). (various references)

Farsi 

صندلی (Chair, Place, Seat), به اخوربستن , دورسرگرداندن , دکه چوبی کوچک , اخور (Bin, Crib, Cub, Manger), ازحرکت بازداشتن , بساط (Counter, Layout), جایگاه ویژه , ممانعت کردن (Check, Impede, Prevent), طفره (Evasion, Fetch, Jink, Procrastination, Subterfuge), طفره زدن (Dally, Dodge, Elude, Hedge, Shirk, Swerve, Wriggle), غرفه (Booth, Loge), قصورورزیدن , لژ (Box, Loge), ماندن (Abide, Be, Lie, Remain, Settle, Stand, Stay, Subsist), جای ایستادن اسب درطویله . (various references)

Finnish

sakkaus (stall of a turbocompressor, stalling), pilttuu (box), permantopaikka (seat in the pit, seat in the stalls), myyntikoju, koju (berth, booth, bunk, cabin), kioski (kiosk), kauppakoju, joutua kuolioon, hinkalo (bin). (various references)

French

stalle (box stall, milking stall), cabine. (various references)

German

stand (balance, booth, class, condition, estate, footing, grade, level, place to stand, position, profession, quality, rank, rate, score, stand, standing, standing position, state, station, status, stood), Stall (barnstable, byre, coop, Cote, cowshed, henhouse, hutch, Mews, pen, pigpen, pigsty, shed, stable, stud, sty), bude (barn, booth, diggings, digs, hut, kiosk, pad, shanty, shebang, shed, stand), box (box, cabinet, compartment, horse box, loose box, loudspeaker, parking place, pit, stand, trap). (various references)

Greek 

υπεκφυγή (elusion, evasion, loophole, prevarication, quibble, quirk, shift, subterfuge, tergiversation), αποφεύγω (avoid, dodge, eschew, evade, forbear, obviate, shirk, shun, sidestep, stay clear, steer clear of), αναβάλλω (adjourn, call off, cancel, defer, delay, hold over, postpone, procrastinate, prorogue, put off, respite, set back, stay), φάτνη (crib, manger, rack), φάτνη αμέλγματος (milking space, milking stall), φάτνη αρμέγματος (milking space, milking stall), αποδέσμευση (sign off), υπαίθριος πάγκος μικροπωλητή, κάθισμα (seat, sitting), παράπηγμα (booth, shed, stand), ιπποθέσιο, σταματώ (arrest, balk, belay, cease, check, cheese, come to a halt, detain, draw up, give over, grind to a halt, grind to a standstill, halt, hang on, knock off, pause, pull up, put pay to, quit, roll to a halt, stay, stop, trig, waste), σταβλίζω (stable), στάβλοσ (stable), σβήσιμο κινητήρα οχήματος εν κινήσει (stalling), χώρισμα στάβλου. (various references)

Hawaiian

ahur (byre, cowhouse, cowshed, depository, stable, sty). (various references)

Hebrew 

מרבק (stable), להתחמק (dodge, elude, eschew, evade, get away, get out, hedge, run around, shirk, sneak, wriggle), להכניס לאורוה, להדמים (becalm, silence), אורוה (manger, stable), אבוס (crib, fattened, feeding trough, manger, stalled, stuffed), הזדקרות (stalling), רפת (byre, cowshed). (various references)

Hungarian

szentélybeli ülés, sebességvesztés, zsebtolvaj falazó társa, leválás (abruption, breakaway, detachment, scaling, separation, spalling, stalling, stripping), kórusülés, istállóban tart (to stall), halogat (adjourn, be on the back burner, delay, hold in abeyance, hold over, play for time, postpone, procrastinate, to defer, to procrastinate, to put off, to put over, to stall), boksz (booth, box, boxing, sabre, traverse), átesés (stall dive, stalling), árusítóbódé, állás (berth, chair, duty, job, niche, occupation, place, placement, pos, position, post, stagnancy, stagnation, stance, stand, station). (various references)

Indonesian

warung (booth, shop), mandek (get stuck, stagnate, stop), kedai (booth, shop), barung-barung. (various references)

Italian

stalla (byre, shed, stable, sty), stallo (seat, stalemate), box (box, pen, pit). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

失速 , 屋台店 (stand). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しっそく, やたいみせ (stand). (various references)

Korean 

축사 (Barn, congratulations, stalls). (various references)

Manx

sthollal (station), stholl, scuirr (abort, adjourn, adjournment, break up, bring to, cease, ceasing, cessation, desist, discontinuance, discontinue, halt, intermission, intermittence, leave off, let up, pause, prorogation, prorogue, pull up, respite, rest, retirement, ring off; interval, shut off, stop), cur 'sy stholl, bwaane (booth, cabin, cottage, cuddy on barge, hovel, hut, kiosk, outhouse, shack, shanty, shed, shelter, stand). (various references)

Norwegian

stall (stable, sty). (various references)

Pig Latin

allstay.(various references)

Portuguese

estábulo (barn, cowshed, crib, stable, sty), tenda (awning, booth, shed, stand, tabernacle, tent), estrebaria (stable, sty), baia (bail, pen). (various references)

Romanian

staul (cowhouse, stable), stand (stand), spaţiu între stãnoage, se cala, se bloca, se înnãmoli (mire, run ashore, settle in the mud), stranã (choir, lectern, pew), prãvãlie (repository, shop, store, store-keeper), bãga în grajd (stable), boxã (bay, box, Lodge), grajd (barn, cow-house, Mews, shed, stable, stabling), intra în scãdere de vitezã, jilţ, adãpost (bunker, burrow, cot, cover, covert, coverture, flight, Harbor, harbour, haven, home, house, housing, kennel, lair, lodgment, nest, niche, penthouse, port, recourse, refuge, retreat, roofing, safeguard, sanctuary, sconce, screen, shadow, shelter, shield, shroud, support), pierdere de vitezã, oprire (arrest, ban, block, call off, cease, cessation, containment, end, foreclosure, halt, interruption, let up, obstruction, pause, prohibition, retention, stage, stand, standstill, station, stay, stick, stop, stoppage, stopping). (various references)

Romany

sergìya. (various references)

Russian 

стойло, уклоняться (absent oneself, deflect, deflected, deflecting, deviate, elude, evade, funk, hedge, shirk, sidestep, side-step, weaseled, weaseling), увертка (dodge, dodgery, elusion, evasion, quip, subterfuge, tergiversation), штабель (stockpile), конюшня (stabling), киоск (booth, kiosk, newsstand, stand), останавливаться стойло;ларек;кресло, останавливать (cease, halt, hold up, intercept, shut down, stanch, stop, withhold), забой (breast, face, side), задерживать (arrest, balk, baulk, block, defer, delay, delayed, detain, hold over, impede, keep, keep down, retard, stop, suspends), ларек. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

staja (cote, cow-house, cowshed, stable), sedište u crkvi, zaustaviti (arrest, block, halt, hold up, pawl, stem, stop, trap), ugušiti (asphyxiate, burke, choke, muffle, nip, quash, quell, repress, scotch, smother, squash, stifle, strangle, suffocate, suppress, throttle), tezga (booth, counter, drop counter, shamble, stand), razvlačiti (linger, spin out), pregrada (baffle, barrage, barrier, bulkhead, closure, divider, division, partition, screen, septum), povući se u odbranu, povlačenje u odbranu, odugovlačenje (procrastination, protraction), gubitak brzine, dovesti do gubitka brzine, štala (byre, stable, stabling), šatra (booth). (various references)

Spanish

establo (barn, byre, cowshed, garage, shed, stable, sty), cuadra (block, hall, stable, sty), casilla (box, hut, mailbox, pigeonhole, pocket, section, Square, subject). (various references)

Swedish

spilta (box), bås (booth, box, crib, cubicle). (various references)

Turkish

stop etmek, stand, sargı (band, bandage, dressing, fascia, pack, roller bandage, swathe, wrap, wrapping, wrappings), saplanmak (be stuck, sink, slide into, stick into), oyalamak (amuse, delay, divert, embroider, entertain, put off, stall off, string along, temporize, waste smb.'s time), bahanelerle aldatma, durmak (be, cease, come to a halt, come to a stop, discontinue, draw rein, draw up, endure, halt, harp, hold, hold on, intermit, keep, let up, linger, pack up, pull in, pull up, remain, rest, run down, stand, stay, stop), geciktirmek (adjourn, delay, hold up, impede, keep back, postpone, procrastinate, put back, retard, set back, sidetrack, stall off, stave off), hız kaybedip düşme, hızı kesilerek düşmek, hızı kesilmek (come off the boil, slow down), ahır (barn, byre, cowhouse, cowshed, crib, shed, stable, stabling), oyalama (delayed, distraction, diversion), zaman kazanmak (gain time), park yeri (car park, lay by, parking place, parking space), tezgâh (bench, counter, frame, pitch, siege, stand, workbench), vakit kazanmaya çalışma, koltuk (armchair, chair, elbow chair, seat). (various references)

Turkmen 

яatak (bread), dьkan (shop, store), atяatak (booth). (various references)

Ukrainian

стійло (bay, boose, box, crib), ставити тварину в стійло, хлів (barn, cowhouse, cowshed, pigpen), тримати тварину в стійлі, прилавок (bar, bulk, counter), доїльний верстат. (various references)

Vietnamese 

mẹo lảnh tránh. (various references)

Welsh

sta+l, preseb (crib), co+r (choir, pew). (various references)

cavea, caveam, praesepe, praesepia, praesepibus, praesepio, tabernis. (various references)

eschoppe, estable, estal. (various references)

estale. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "stall": stalled, stallholder, stallholders, stalling, stallion, stallions, stalls. (additional references)

Words ending with "stall": bookstall, forestall, headstall, install, reinstall. (additional references)

Words containing "stall": bookstalls, cryptocrystalline, crystalline, crystallinities, crystallinity, crystallise, crystallised, crystallises, crystallising, crystallite, crystallites, crystallizable, crystallization, crystallizations, crystallize, crystallized, crystallizer, crystallizers, crystallizes, crystallizing, crystallographer, crystallographers, crystallographic, crystallographically, crystallographies, crystallography, crystalloid, crystalloidal, crystalloids, distally, festally, forestalled, forestaller, forestallers, forestalling, forestallment, forestallments, forestalls, headstalls, installation, installations, installed, installer, installers, installing, installment, installments, installs, intercrystalline, microcrystalline, microcrystallinities. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stall" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ctal, estal, Estall, sall, s'all, satal, schmall, Sgall, sialyl, Spall, staal, stahl, stalg, stalla, stalle, Steall, stel, Stell, stello, stl, stoll, Stolli, tsal. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: alls, alts, last, lats, sall, salt, slat, tall.

-2 letters: all, als, alt, las, lat, sal, sat, tas.

-3 letters: al, as, at, la, ta.

+1 letter: allots, atolls, lastly, sallet, stalls, stella, tallis.

+2 letters: atlatls, ballast, ballets, ballots, callets, gallets, install, latosol, lethals, lustral, mallets, maltols, pallets, sallets, saltily, shallot, stalely, stalled, stellar, stellas, tailles, tallest, tallies, tallish, tallols, tallows, thallus, thralls, wallets.

+3 letters: anthills, astrally, axolotls, ballasts, ballista, ballutes, bastille, blastula, bullbats, callants, catcalls, catfalls, collates, diallist, distally, fallouts, fastball, fellates, festally, flatlets, floatels, gallants, gallates, galletas, galliots, gallnuts, galloots, gellants, haltless, hellcats, installs, lacteals, lanitals, laterals, latosols, leaflets, lealties, legalist, listable, literals, localist, locustal, loyalest, loyalist, maillots, nutgalls, outfalls, palatals, palliest, pastille, patellas, phallist, pitfalls, plastral, playlets, playlist, postally, rallyist, reallots, rostella, saltless, saltlike, santalol, scutella, shallots, skeletal, smallest, softball, spitball, stalkily, stalling, stallion, stellate, stillman, tailless, tallages, tallboys, talliers, tallises, tallisim, talliths, tallness, tallyhos, thallous, tillages, tollages, tollbars, tollways, tramells, ululates, vestally.