stall
stawl
- n a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed
- n small area set off by walls for special use
- n a booth where articles are displayed for sale
- n 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 - n seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater
- n small individual study area in a library
- n a tactic used to mislead or delay
- v postpone doing what one should be doing
- v come to a stop
The car stalled in the driveway - v deliberately delay an event or action
she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling - v put into, or keep in, a stall
- v experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
- v cause an airplane to go into a stall
- v cause an engine to stop
The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car
- But Palestinian security sources tell PTI that the conditions presented Wednesday are little more than a stall tactic, and that the seizure of the two men has much more to do with .
- Opposite him another stall soon blossomed specializing in under-the-counter sales of high-priced coral carvings.
- A Senator's humiliating fall has turned a bathroom stall into a tourist attraction, much to the consternation of airport officials.