Stall

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English

Noun

Stall (plural Stalls)
  1. (countable) A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
  2. (countable) A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market.
  3. A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.
    • 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.
  4. (countable) A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage.
  5. (aeronautics) Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded or due to an excessive loss of speed.
  6. (paganism) An altar used in Heathenry, normally for indoor use as opposed to the more substantial outdoor harrow.
  7. A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
  8. A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
    • 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

Stall (third-person singular simple present Stalls, present participle Stalling, simple past and past participle Stalled)

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

Noun

Stall (plural Stalls)
  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

Stall (third-person singular simple present Stalls, present participle Stalling, simple past and past participle Stalled)

  1. (transitive) To employ delaying tactics against
    He stalled the creditors as long as he could.
  2. (intransitive) 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

Rhymes: -ɔːl

Etymology 1

Old English steall (“standing place, position”). Confer Dutch stal (“cattle shed”), German Stall (“cattle shed”), Old Norse stallr. Cognate with stand.

Etymology 2

Translations

Noun

A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed
A small open-fronted shop
A very small room used for a shower
  • 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: cabine (nl) f.
A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage
Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded

Related terms

Verb

To come to a standstill
To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in total loss of lift

Noun

action that causes, or is intended to cause, delay

Verb

To employ delaying tactics against
  • Chinese:
    Simplified: 拖住 (tuō zhù)
To employ delaying tactics
  • Chinese:
    Simplified: 拖延(时间) (tuōyán [shíjiān])

Swedish

Noun

Stall n.

Declension of Stall
singular plural
Neuter indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative Stall Stallet Stall Stallen
genitive Stalls Stallets Stalls Stallens
  1. stable, building for housing horses
  2. a team in certain sports, in particular racing.

Pronunciation

Descendants

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