Dictionary Entry
stall
stall is a 5-letter English word with 31 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 31 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal.
- 2intransitive verb
A stable; a place for cattle.
- 3intransitive verb
A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.
- 4intransitive verb
A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
- 5intransitive verb
A seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving.
- 6intransitive verb
In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
- 7intransitive verb
The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post, stall, under Post.
- 8transitive verb
To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox.
- 9transitive verb
To fatten; as, to stall cattle.
- 10transitive verb
To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
- 11transitive verb
To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart.
- 12transitive verb
To forestall; to anticipitate. Having
- 13transitive verb
To keep close; to keep secret.
- 14intransitive verb
To live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell.
- 15intransitive verb
To kennel, as dogs.
- 16intransitive verb
To be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.
- 17intransitive verb
To be tired of eating, as cattle.
- 18noun
a tactic used to mislead or delay
Synonyms
- 19noun
small area set off by walls for special use
- 20noun
small individual study area in a library
- 21noun
a booth where articles are displayed for sale
Synonyms
- 22noun
a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed
- 23noun
seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater
- 24noun
a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge
"the plane went into a stall and I couldn't control it"
- 25verb
deliberately delay an event or action
"she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling"
- 26verb
come to a stop
"The car stalled in the driveway"
Synonyms
- 27verb
cause an engine to stop
"The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car"
- 28verb
cause an airplane to go into a stall
- 29verb
experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
- 30verb
put into, or keep in, a stall
"Stall the horse"
- 31verb
postpone doing what one should be doing
"He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"
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