stall

stall
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"1. crib, booth, cage, cell, bay, carrel, carol; quarters, chamber, room, roomette, apartment, enclosure, Theater. box; compartment, cubicle, pigeonhole, cubbyhole, cubby, niche, nook, alcove, corner; partition, section, part, division; closet, locker, Brit. lockup; parking space or place, slot, garage; slip, Naut. anchorage, Naut. moorage, Naut. quayage; dressing room, shower, bathroom, toilet, privy.
2. corral, pen, coop, hutch, cote, fold, sty, pigpen; stable, barn, cowshed, shed, lean-to, outbuilding, outhouse; house, home, shelter, protection, roof.
3. booth, stand, cart, table, counter.
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4. pen, cage, coop, sty, corral, fence in, picket; quarter, room, house, shelter, shed, sleep, bed down; place, put, situate, locate, set up; park, garage, Naut. moor, Naut. dock, Naut. anchor, Naut. tie up; enclose, shut in, immure, wall in, lock up, confine, imprison, jail, incarcerate.
5.(of a motor or vehicle) flood, choke, kill; halt, stop, bring or come to a stop, bring or come to a standstill or a stand; give out, die, Sl. conk out; get stuck, stick, get caught; bog down, mire, swamp, get sucked in, sink into; slide, spin one's wheels, go nowhere, make no progress.
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1.Informal. delay, dilatory tactic or maneuver, Inf. footdragging, U.S. filibuster, Brit. stonewalling; subterfuge, wile, ruse, Trojan horse; artifice, trick, stratagem, maneuver, move; pretext, pretense, deception, deceit, Obs. cog.
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2. delay, go into a holding pattern, slow down, dally, dillydally, dawdle, linger, lag, loiter, poke along, Both Inf. drag one's feet, footdrag; beat around the bush, skirt or evade the issue, hem and haw, haw, mutter, mumble, hum, Inf. give [s.o.] the run-around, Scot, and North Eng. haver, Brit. Dial. mammer; play for or gain time, kill time, eat up or consume time, use up time, waste time, U.S. filibuster, Brit. stonewall; stave off, put or hold off, keep busy or occupied, send on a wild-goose chase

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Synonyms:
, , / (as in a stable), , , (as in mire), , / (where things are sold), , , / (for a dignitary in the choir of a church)


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  • Stall — (st[add]l), n. [OE. stal, AS. steall, stall, a place, seat, or station, a stable; akin to D. & OHG. stal, G. & Sw. stall, Icel. stallr, Dan. stald, originally, a standing place; akin also to G. stelle a place, stellen to place, Gr. ste llein to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Stall — Stall, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stalled} (st[add]ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Stalling}.] [Cf. Sw. stalla, Dan. stalde.] 1. To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox. [1913 Webster] Where King Latinus then his oxen… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Stall — can refer to: * Stall (enclosure), a small enclosure, as for market goods, or for an animal ** Market stall, makeshift or mobile structures for selling market goods or serving food. * Choir stall seating in a church for the choir * Stall (engine) …   Wikipedia

  • stall — ‘compartment, booth, etc’ [OE] and stall ‘stop’ [15] are distinct words, but they have a common ancestor, in prehistoric Germanic *stal , *stel ‘position’ (source of English still). This in turn was formed from the base *sta ‘stand’, which also… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • stall — ‘compartment, booth, etc’ [OE] and stall ‘stop’ [15] are distinct words, but they have a common ancestor, in prehistoric Germanic *stal , *stel ‘position’ (source of English still). This in turn was formed from the base *sta ‘stand’, which also… …   Word origins

  • stall — stall1 [stôl] n. [ME stal < OE steall, place, station, stall, stable, akin to OHG stal < IE base * stel , to place, set up, stiff, stem > STILL1] 1. a) Obs. a stable b) a compartment for one animal in a stable 2. any of various… …   English World dictionary

  • Stall — Stall, v. i. [AS. steallian to have room. See {Stall}, n.] 1. To live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] We could not stall together In the whole world. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To kennel, as dogs. Johnson. [1913 Webster] 3. To …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Stall — Blason inconnu …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Stall — Sm std. (8. Jh.), mhd. stal, ahd. stal m./n., mndd. stal, mndl. stal Stammwort. Aus g. * stalla m. Stand , auch in anord. stallr Sockel, Krippe , ae. steall Stand, Stellung, Stall , afr. stall Stall . Das Wort, das mit stellen zusammengehört,… …   Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache

  • Stall — Stall, Unterkunftsraum für die Haustiere. Der Viehstall muß so angelegt sein, daß den Tieren reine, gesunde Luft, Licht, ausreichender Raum, reine Ruhe und Lagerplätze, Schutz gegen Witterung, Insekten etc. und genügende Wärme zukommen, überdies… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Stall — Stall: Das altgerm. Substantiv mhd., ahd. stal, niederl. stal, engl. stall, schwed. stall bedeutet eigentlich »Standort, Stelle« (z. T. bis in frühnhd. Zeit; s. auch die Artikel ↑ installieren und ↑ Gestell). Von ihm ist das unter ↑ stellen… …   Das Herkunftswörterbuch

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