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- Dictionarystall/stɔːl/
noun
- 1. a stand, booth, or compartment for the sale of goods in a market or large covered area: "fruit and vegetable stalls" Similar
- 2. an individual compartment for an animal in a stable or cowshed, enclosed on three sides. Similar
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" Similar
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if a process or system stalls or something stalls it, it suddenly stops developing or making progress: Japan's economic growth has stalled. Contract negotiations between management and the union have stalled again.
The meaning of STALL is a compartment for a domestic animal in a stable or barn. How to use stall in a sentence.
When you want a horse to stop, you put him in a stall, or small enclosure inside a barn. The word stall implies stopping something that will start again — a horse will leave the stall eventually and start moving, a stalled car can be restarted.
stall. [intransitive, transitive] (of a vehicle or an engine) to stop suddenly because of a lack of power or speed; to make a vehicle or an engine do this. The car stalled and refused to start again. I kept stalling.
if a process or system stalls or something stalls it, it suddenly stops developing or making progress: Japan's economic growth has stalled. Contract negotiations between management and the union have stalled again.
a rectangular space marked off or reserved for parking a car or other vehicle, as in a parking lot. an instance or the condition of causing an engine, or a vehicle powered by an engine, to stop, especially by supplying it with a poor fuel mixture or by overloading it.
A stall is a large table on which you put goods that you want to sell, or information that you want to give people.
n. 1. A compartment for one domestic animal in a barn or shed. 2. a. A booth, cubicle, or stand used by a vendor, as at a market. b. A small compartment: a shower stall. 3. a. An enclosed seat in the chancel of a church. b. A pew in a church. 4. Chiefly British A seat in the front part of a theater. 5.
stall. noun. /stɔːl/. /stɔːl/. [countable] a table or small shop with an open front that people sell things from, especially at a market synonym stand. He works on a market stall in the Square. They have a fish stall on the market. Drinks were being sold from makeshift stalls at the side of the road. see also bookstall.
STALL meaning: 1. a small shop with an open front or a table from which goods are sold: 2. a small area in a room…. Learn more.
