Stalls

Definition: Stalls

Stalls

Noun

1. (British) seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater.

2. A farm building for housing horses or other livestock.

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

Date "stalls" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Stalls

The Drama

Auditory, auditorium, front of the house, stalls, boxes, pit, gallery, parquet; greenroom, coulisses.

Crosswords: Stalls

I'm just saying, if you want to gossip in the ladies' room, check under the stalls for her shoes. (Nine to Five; writing credit: Colin Higgins)

We don't got none of thiswe don't got doors on the stalls in the boy's room, we don't have, what is this? (Pretty in Pink; writing credit: John Hughes)

Long john jaws long john stalls (Southern Hospitality; performing artist: Ludacris)

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

Books

• All About Stalls and Spins (reference)

• Food and Beverage Stalls in Indonesia [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Mobile Food and Beverage Stalls in Indonesia [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Stalls & Spins (Tab Practical Flying Series) (reference)

• The Gothic Choir Stalls of Spain (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Oyster stalls and lunch rooms at Fulton Market, Fulton Street, N.Y. / Bghs. Credit: Library of Congress.

Trinity Chapel (New York). Choir stalls. Elevations and plan. Rendering. Credit: Library of Congress.

Home of one of two families who travel and work together all through the South, repairing stalls, stoves, tools, houses, and any other odd jobs. Tourist camp near Atlanta, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.

Construction of stalls and barn at logging camp near Effie, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Charles S. Brown, residence at Oneida Lake, New York. Kennels, to stalls. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Business

A recent survey showed that 12 % of those questioned had used a book club in the year to October 1999. Other outlets maintain a strong presence, including second hand bookshops and stalls, used by 17 % of the population. (references)

Civil Liberties

Guinea-Bissau

The majority of the refugees live in the market place (Mercado de Bandim), sleeping in stalls and on rollaway mats. (references)

Economic History

Vietnam

But apart from these pioneering projects, retail outlets still consist mainly of family-run market stalls or small street-front shops. (references)

Egypt

Bidders often are "held hostage" to a government agency that stalls the bid opening for varied reasons, including running out of funds for the project. (references)

Political Economy

Sudan

The security forces charged them with resisting an order to remove their small retail stalls from downtown shopping areas; there were no reported arrests. (references)

Travel

Indonesia

Do not eat from street stalls. (references)

Taiwan

Visitors should also take special care to wash all fruits and vegetables before eating and avoid eating in any of the island's countless street stalls, at least during the first few weeks of the stay. (references)

Worker Rights

Saint Lucia

Children also typically work in urban food stalls or sell confectionery on sidewalks. (references)

Bangladesh

Children drive rickshaws, break bricks at construction sites, carry fruit, vegetables, and dry goods for shoppers at markets, work at tea stalls, and work as beachcombers in the shrimp industry. (references)

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

Expressions using "stalls": choir stalls ♦ rear stalls ♦ starting stalls. Additional references.

Ending with "stalls": book-stalls, box-stalls, choir-stalls, coffee-stalls, food-stalls, mid-stalls, pit-stalls, side-stalls, street-stalls.

Bulgarian 

партер (first floor, ground floor, parterre, pit). (various references)

Chinese 

摊位 (stall). (various references)

Czech

křesla v přízemí. (various references)

Danish

stalde (stables). (various references)

Dutch

stallen (dock, put away). (various references)

Finnish

talli (stable). (various references)

French

stabulation (stalling), parterre (stand), bâtiments pour animaux (stables). (various references)

German

Buden (boothes, booths, shacks, shanties). (various references)

Greek 

στάβλοι (stables). (various references)

Hungarian

zsöllye (orchestra). (various references)

Indonesian

bangsal (lean to, market stalls, public building, ward). (various references)

Italian

stalle (stables), platea (audience, parterre, pit, stall). (various references)

Korean 

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

Pig Latin

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Portuguese

edifícios para o gado (stables). (various references)

Spanish

patio (area, areaway, Causey, court, courtyard, farmyard, forecourt, Grove, patio, playground, quad, quadrangle, schoolyard, yard), edificios para el ganado (stables). (various references)

Swedish

stallbyggnad (stables), parkett (parquet, pit). (various references)

Turkish

koro yeri (choir, choir stalls). (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words ending with "stalls": bookstalls, forestalls, headstalls, installs, reinstalls. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Stalls" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Astills, Estall, sallus, salols, scalls, Sgall, shalls, sqalls, stahl, stails, stalg, stalla, stalle, staules, stelles, stello, stolz, Stulz, talls. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: lasts, salts, slats, stall.

-2 letters: alls, alts, lass, last, lats, sall, sals, salt, slat, tall, tass.

-3 letters: all, als, alt, ass, las, lat, sal, sat, tas.

-4 letters: al, as, at, la, ta.

+1 letter: sallets, stellas.

+2 letters: ballasts, haltless, installs, latosols, saltless, shallots, smallest, tailless, tallises, tallness.

+3 letters: artlessly, ballsiest, bastilles, blastulas, diallists, fastballs, faultless, legalists, localists, loyalists, pastilles, phallists, plastisol, playlists, pleatless, rallyists, sallowest, santalols, softballs, spitballs, stalkless, stallions, tasselled, thalluses, trailless.

+4 letters: allergists, balladists, ballistics, blacklists, bookstalls, braillists, castellans, celestials, collagists, faldstools, forestalls, gallstones, globalists, headstalls, installers, leafstalks, legislates, lotuslands, medallists, oscillates, palletises, pastellist, plastisols, plateglass, pluralists, reinstalls, sailcloths, satellites, scintillas, shallowest, shortfalls, soleplates, solstitial, squalliest, stairwells, standstill, steamrolls, stickballs, stonewalls, stoopballs, tactlessly, tailslides, talentless, tallnesses, tasselling, tessellate.