stall in English

noun

1

a stand, booth, or compartment for the sale of goods in a market or large covered area.

fruit and vegetable stalls

synonyms: stand, table, counter, booth, kiosk

2

an individual compartment for an animal in a stable or barn, enclosed on three sides.

This configuration recalls the form of traditional livestock barns with a center walkway and animal stalls to each side.

synonyms: pen, coop, sty, corral, enclosure, compartment

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.

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.

The action is seen as it would be from a good seat in the theatre stalls .

5

an instance of an engine, vehicle, aircraft, or boat stalling.

speed must be maintained to avoid a stall and loss of control

verb

1

(of a motor vehicle or its engine) stop running, typically because of an overload on the engine.

her car stalled at the crossroads

2

stop or cause to stop making progress.

his career had stalled, hers taken off

synonyms: obstruct, impede, interfere with, hinder, hamper, block, interrupt, hold up, hold back, thwart, balk, sabotage, delay, stonewall, check, stop, halt, derail, put a brake on, stymie, stop, fizzle, flatline, die, reach an impasse, hit a roadblock

3

put or keep (an animal) in a stall, especially in order to fatten it.

One more row was behind these stalls on both sides, allowing a maximum of eighty horses to be stalled in the large place.

noun

stand, table, counter, booth, kiosk
pen, coop, sty, corral, enclosure, compartment
stand
cubicle, booth, kiosk
carrell, carrel, cubicle
stalling

verb

obstruct, stop, use delaying tactics, delay, dilly-dally, conk
obstruct, impede, interfere with, hinder, hamper, block, interrupt, hold up, hold back, thwart, balk, sabotage, delay, stonewall, check, stop, halt, derail, put a brake on, stymie
stop, fizzle, flatline, die, reach an impasse, hit a roadblock
use delaying tactics, play for time, temporize, gain time, procrastinate, hedge, beat around the bush, drag one's feet, delay, filibuster, stonewall, give someone the runaround
delay, divert, distract, hold off, stave off, fend off, keep off, ward off, keep at bay
dilly-dally, dillydally, procrastinate, drag one's feet, shillyshally, drag one's heels
conk

Use "stall" in a sentence

1. Real clean stall?

2. Latch every stall!

3. a fruit and veg stall.

4. Learner drivers often stall .

5. A heifer bellowed in her stall.

6. You asked me to stall!

7. As she made her way from stall to stall, Loretta remembered her promise to ring Bridget.

8. Another stall which JAF always patronise at the same hawker centre is this Char Kway Teow stall.

9. He sold boots on a market stall.

10. The stall sells drinks and snacks.

11. The stall took ￡25 on Saturday.

12. Bread is the stall of life.

13. That's Chan from the fruit stall

14. The plane went into a stall.

15. We've got to stall him somehow.

16. She made two purchases from my stall.

17. Angle of attack indication, stall warning systems;

18. He managed to stall off his creditor.

19. Angle of attack indication, stall warning systems.

20. You two go upstairs to stall them.

21. She sells fruits at a market stall.

22. 3 He managed to stall off his creditor.

23. She runs a stall in/on the market.

24. They have a fish stall on the market.

25. Who's going to man the stall at lunchtime?

26. An inexperienced pilot may easily stall a plane.

27. The hunter irritably and put his horse into the stall.

28. Business Appeared to be slack for the stall holders.

29. I bought this trout at the market fish stall.

30. Stall recovery usually involves reducing the angle of attack to "break" the stall, and, if the aircraft is powered, adding power to increase airspeed.

31. He has a flower stall in Portobello Road market.

32. Horses were poking their heads over their stall doors.

33. — Generation of lift and drag: angle of attack, polar curve, stall.

34. Following this, a stall-warning device was developed for the Javelin.

35. This food stall is supposed to go out of business

36. 12 I bought this trout at the market fish stall.

37. 12 Either stall or surge may result in combustor blowout.

38. The car has an inclination to stall on cold mornings.

39. He runs a fruit and vegetable stall in the market.

40. The stall was cleaned out of newspapers by 00 a.m.

41. Buster Edwards now runs a Flower stall outside Waterloo Station.

42. Fears are growing that a tax increase may stall economic recovery.

43. Maybe we can stall the sale until the prices go up.

44. A car may stall due to the driver braking too suddenly.

45. Wind turbine blade having a shaped stall fence or flow diverter

46. Airplane with aerodynamic stall-prevention layout and pertinent longitudinal stability arrangement

47. Generation of lift and drag: angle of attack, polar curve, stall.

48. Your foot falls off the pedal and you stall the car.

49. Don't worry, we can stall him until you get the confession.

50. Credo: I will return with help! You stall him until then!