stall

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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.
    • (Can we date this quote?) 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.
  6. (paganism and Heathenry) An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.
    • 1989, Edred Thorsson, A Book of Troth, Llewellyn Publications, ISBN 9780875427775, page 156:
      In a private rite, a ring is drawn on the ground around a harrow or before an indoor stall.
    • 2006, Selene Silverwind, “Asatruar Tools and Practices”, in Everything you need to know about Paganism[1], David & Charles, ISBN 9780715324868, page 117:
      Some Asatruar kindreds call their indoor altars stalls and their outdoor altars harrows.
    • 2006, Mark Puryear, The Nature of Asatru: An Overview of the Ideals and Philosophy of the Indigenous Religion of Northern Europe[2], iUniverse, ISBN 9780595389643, page 237:
      Stalli (STAL-i) - Altar.
  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.
  9. A sheath to protect the finger.
Translations[edit]
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
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[edit]

Verb[edit]

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.
  4. (obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a stall; to dwell.
    • Shakespeare
      We could not stall together / In the whole world.
  5. (obsolete) To be stuck, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.
  6. (obsolete) To be tired of eating, as cattle.
Translations[edit]
To put (an animal etc) in a stall
To come to a standstill
To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in total loss of lift

Etymology 2[edit]

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Noun[edit]

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.
Translations[edit]
action that causes, or is intended to cause, delay

Verb[edit]

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.
Translations[edit]
To employ delaying tactics against
To employ delaying tactics

Swedish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

stall n

  1. stable, building for housing horses
  2. a team in certain sports, in particular racing.

Declension[edit]

Declension of stall
singular plural
Neuter indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative stall stallet stall stallen
genitive stalls stallets stalls stallens

Descendants[edit]

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