stalls

Meanings

Noun

• a farm building for housing horses or other livestock
• a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed
• small area set off by walls for special use
• a booth where articles are displayed for sale
• a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge
• seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater
• small individual study area in a library
• a tactic used to mislead or delay
• plural of stall

Verb

• postpone doing what one should be doing
• come to a stop
• deliberately delay an event or action
• put into, or keep in, a stall
• experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
• cause an airplane to go into a stall
• cause an engine to stop
• third-person singular simple present indicative of stall

Synonyms

booth, carrel, carrell, conk, cubicle, dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, horse barn, kiosk, procrastinate, sales booth, shillyshally, stable, stall, stalling, stand