英英字典: stalls
Overview of noun stalls
The noun stalls has 1 sense
- stable, stalls, horse barn -- (a farm building for housing horses or other livestock)
Overview of noun stall
The noun stall has 7 senses
- stall -- (a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed)
- booth, cubicle, stall, kiosk -- (small area set off by walls for special use)
- stall, stand, sales booth -- (a booth where articles are displayed for sale)
- stall -- (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")
- stall -- (seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater)
- carrel, carrell, cubicle, stall -- (small individual study area in a library)
- stall, stalling -- (a tactic used to mislead or delay)
Overview of verb stall
The verb stall has 7 senses
- procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally -- (postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days")
- stall, conk -- (come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway")
- stall -- (deliberately delay an event or action; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling")
- stall -- (put into, or keep in, a stall; "Stall the horse")
- stall -- (experience a stall in flight, of airplanes)
- stall -- (cause an airplane to go into a stall)
- stall -- (cause an engine to stop; "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car")
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