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stall
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /st??l/
- Rhymes: -??l
- (US) IPA(key): /st?l/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /st?l/
Etymology 1
From Middle English stall, stalle, from Old English steall (“standing place, position”), from Proto-Germanic *stallaz, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, put, post, stand”).
Noun
stall (plural stalls)
- (countable) A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
- Synonym: boose
- A stable; a place for cattle.
- A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
- (countable) A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
- He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days [...]
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
- A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.
- 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest:
- Rabbit eases from the king-size bed, goes into their bathroom with its rose-colored one-piece Fiberglas tub and shower stall, and urinates into the toilet of a matching rose porcelain.
- 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest:
- (countable) A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with arms, or otherwise partly enclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
- (aeronautics) Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded.
- (Germanic paganism) An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.
- A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
- A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
- 1910 [1840], Alexandre Dumas, père, translator not mentioned, Celebrated Crimes: Urbain Grandier, P. F. Collier edition,
- When he had been some months installed there as a priest-in-charge, he received a prebendal stall, thanks to the same patrons, in the collegiate church of Sainte-Croix.
- 1910 [1840], Alexandre Dumas, père, translator not mentioned, Celebrated Crimes: Urbain Grandier, P. F. Collier edition,
- A sheath to protect the finger.
- (mining) The space left by excavation between pillars.
- (Canada) A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.
Derived terms
- deep stall
- shock stall
Translations
Related terms
- stall-fed
- orchestra stalls
Verb
stall (third-person singular simple present stalls, present participle stalling, simple past and past participle stalled)
- (transitive) To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
- To fatten.
- (intransitive) To come to a standstill.
- (transitive) To cause to stop making progress, to hinder, to slow down, to delay or forestall.
- To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.
- 1884, Edward Everett Hale, The Fortunes of Rachel:
- His horses had been stalled in the snow.
- 1884, Edward Everett Hale, The Fortunes of Rachel:
- (intransitive, of an engine) To stop suddenly.
- (transitive, automotive) To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear.
- (intransitive, aviation) To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- (transitive, aviation) To cause to exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
- (obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a stall; to dwell.
- (obsolete) To be stuck, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.
- (obsolete) To be tired of eating, as cattle.
- To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
- To forestall; to anticipate.
- 1636, Philip Massinger, The Bashful Lover
- not to be stall'd by my report
- 1636, Philip Massinger, The Bashful Lover
- To keep close; to keep secret.
Derived terms
- forestall
- stall for time
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English stallen (“to abide, dwell, place in a location, stop, come to a standstill”), partly from Old French estaler, ultimately from the same origin as Etymology 1 (see above); and partly from Middle English stalle (“fixed position, stall”).
Noun
stall (plural stalls)
- An action that is intended to cause or actually causes delay.
- His encounters with security, reception, the secretary, and the assistant were all stalls until the general manager's attorney arrived.
Translations
Verb
stall (third-person singular simple present stalls, present participle stalling, simple past and past participle stalled)
- (transitive) To employ delaying tactics against.
- He stalled the creditors as long as he could.
- (intransitive) To employ delaying tactics.
- Soon it became clear that she was stalling to give him time to get away.
Synonyms
- (transitive): delay, postpone, put off
- (intransitive): delay, penelopize, procrastinate
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “stall”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Anagrams
- talls
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse stallr
Noun
stall m (definite singular stallen, indefinite plural staller, definite plural stallene)
- a stable (building where horses are housed)
Derived terms
- lokomotivstall
References
- “stall” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse stallr
Noun
stall m (definite singular stallen, indefinite plural stallar, definite plural stallane)
- a stable (building where horses are housed)
Derived terms
- lokomotivstall
References
- “stall” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish stalder, from Old Norse stallr.
Pronunciation
Noun
stall n
- stable, building for housing horses
- a team in certain sports, in particular racing.
- bridge (of a violin etc.)
Declension
Descendants
- ? Finnish: talli
- ? Ingrian: talli
Anagrams
- talls
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From Old Norse stallr, from Proto-Germanic *stallaz.
Noun
stall m (definite singular stalln, definite plural stalla)
- a stable (building where horses are housed)
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block
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bl?k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /bl?k/
- Rhymes: -?k
- Homophone: bloc
Etymology 1
From Middle English blok (“log, stump, solid piece”), from Old French bloc (“log, block”), from Middle Dutch blok (“treetrunk”), from Old Dutch *blok (“log”), from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukk? (“beam, log”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?el?- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”). Cognate with Old Frisian blok, Old Saxon blok, Old High German bloh, bloc (“block”), Old English bolca (“gangway of a ship, plank”), Old Norse b?lkr (“divider, partition”). More at balk. See also bloc.
Noun
block (plural blocks)
- A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
- a block of ice, a block of stone
- A chopping block: a cuboid base for cutting or beheading.
- Anne Boleyn placed her head on the block and awaited her execution.
- You young porkers who are sitting in front of me, every one of you will scream your lives out at the block within a year.
- A wig block: a simplified head model upon which wigs are worn.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
- Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for a block, I settled my own and comrade’s bill; using, however, my comrade’s money.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 13
- A mould on which hats, bonnets, etc., are shaped.
- (printing, dated) A piece of hard wood on which a stereotype or electrotype plate is mounted.
- A case or frame housing one or more sheaves (pulleys), used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example as part of lifting gear or a sailing ship's rigging. See also block and tackle.
- A section of split logs used as fuel.
- 1833, The Gospel Anchor (volume 2, page 371)
- She said, 'I hope I shall not be left to kill myself, but It would be no more sin to kill me, than to put a block on the fire.'
- 2012, Ron Herrett, Shorty's Story
- Dawn and Shorty would cut this tree into blocks, while Randy and Matt went back for more. Dawn and Shorty made a good team on the crosscut, so when another log arrived, the first was almost completely made into shake wood.
- 1833, The Gospel Anchor (volume 2, page 371)
- A set of sheets (of paper) joined together at one end, forming a cuboid shape.
- a block of 100 tickets
- (falconry) The perch on which a bird of prey is kept.
- A physical area or extent of something, often rectangular or approximately rectangular.
- a block of text, a block of colour, a block of land
- (philately) A joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape.
- (viticulture) A discrete group of vines in a vineyard, often distinguished from others by variety, clone, canopy training method, irrigation infrastructure, or some combination thereof.
- A logical extent or region; a grouping or apportionment of like things treated together as a unit.
- a block of data, a block of seven days, a block reservation
- (computing) A logical data storage unit containing one or more physical sectors (see cluster).
- (programming) A region of code in a program that acts as a single unit, such as a function or loop.
- (cryptography) A fixed-length group of bits making up part of a message.
- (chemistry) A portion of a macromolecule, comprising many units, that has at least one feature not present in adjacent portions.
- (rail transport) A section of a railroad where the block system is used.
- (computing) A contiguous range of Unicode code points used to encode characters of a specific type; can be of any size evenly divisible by 16, up to 65,536 (a full plane).
- A contiguous group of urban lots of property, typically several acres in extent, not crossed by public streets.
- I'm going for a walk around the block.
- The distance from one street to another in a city or suburb that is built (approximately) to a grid pattern.
- The place you are looking for is two long blocks east and one short block north.
- A large, roughly cuboid building.
- a block of flats, an office block, a tower block
- A cellblock.
- Something that prevents something from passing.
- Synonyms: barrier, blockage, obstruction
- There's a block in the pipe that means the water can't get through.
- Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
- a mental block
- writer's block
- (sports) An action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck).
- (cricket) A shot played by holding the bat vertically in the path of the ball, so that it loses momentum and drops to the ground.
- (cricket) The position of a player or bat when guarding the wicket.
- (cricket) A blockhole.
- (cricket) The popping crease.
- (volleyball) A defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court.
- Synonyms: stuff, roof, wall
- (Wiktionary and WMF jargon) A type of temporary or permanent ban which automatically prevents the blocked user from editing pages of a particular wiki.
- (slang) The human head.
- I'll knock your block off!
- (Britain) Solitary confinement.
- (obsolete) A blockhead; a stupid fellow; a dolt.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:head
- city block
Related terms
- bloc
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Verb
block (third-person singular simple present blocks, present participle blocking, simple past and past participle blocked)
- (transitive) To fill or obstruct (something) so that it is not possible to pass.
- The pipe is blocked.
- (transitive) To prevent (something or someone) from passing.
- A broken-down car is blocking the traffic.
- (transitive) To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something).
- His plan to take over the business was blocked by the boss.
- (transitive, sports) To impede (an opponent or opponent's play).
- He blocked the basketball player's shot.
- The offensive linemen tried to block the blitz.
- (transitive, theater) To specify the positions and movements of the actors for (a section of a play).
- It was very difficult to block this scene convincingly.
- (transitive, cricket) To hit with a block.
- (intransitive, cricket) To play a block shot.
- (transitive) To disable communication via telephone, instant messaging, etc. with (someone undesirable).
- I tried to send you a message, but you've blocked me!
- (Wiktionary and WMF jargon, transitive) To place, on a user of a wiki, a type of temporary or permanent ban which automatically prevents the recipient from editing pages of the wiki.
- (computing, intransitive) To wait.
- When the condition expression is false, the thread blocks on the condition variable.
- (transitive) To stretch or mould (a knitted item, a hat, etc.) into the desired shape.
- I blocked the mittens by wetting them and pinning them to a shaped piece of cardboard.
- (transitive) To shape or sketch out roughly.
- When drawing a scene, first block the main features, and then fill in the detail.
- (transitive, slang, obsolete) To knock (a person's hat) down over their eyes.
- Synonym: bonnet
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Noun
block
- Misspelling of bloc.
Manx
Etymology
Borrowed from English block.
Noun
block m (genitive singular bluick)
- block, log, cake (of soap)
Derived terms
- block-lettyr
Mutation
Spanish
Etymology
From English block. Doublet of bloc and bloque.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?blok/, [?blok]
Noun
block m (plural blocks)
- (Guatemala) cement block
- Synonym: bloque de cemento
Swedish
Etymology
From Middle Low German block, from Old Saxon blok, from Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukk?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bl?k/
Noun
block n
- a block, a boulder, a cuboid (of ice, wood, rock)
- a block, a pad, a notebook
- a block, a pulley
- a block, a piece of data storage
- a bloc (of voters or countries)
Declension
Related terms
- anteckningsblock
- blädderblock
- blockad
- blockbaserad
- blockera
- blockstorlek
- diskblock
- flyttblock
- isblock
- skrivblock
- stenblock
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