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stall
English
- 🔊 a tactic used to mislead or delay
- 🔊 a booth where articles are displayed for sale
- 🔊 a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed
- 🔊 seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater
- 🔊 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”
- 🔊 small area set off by walls for special use
- 🔊 small individual study area in a library
- 🔊 deliberately delay an event or action“she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling”
- 🔊 come to a stop“The car stalled in the driveway”
- 🔊 cause an engine to stop“The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car”
- 🔊 cause an airplane to go into a stall
- 🔊 experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
- 🔊 put into, or keep in, a stall“Stall the horse”
- 🔊 postpone doing what one should be doing“He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days”
Spanish
- 🔊 tenderete stall, market stall, stand
- 🔊 tabanco stall, small area set off by walls for special use
- 🔊 estancar to stall, suspend, or stop a project or business plan