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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)

1. (countable) A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.

   Synonym: boose

2. A stable; a place for cattle.
3. A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
5. (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 [...]
6. 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.

7. (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.
8. (aeronautics) Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded.
9. (Germanic paganism) An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.
10. A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
11. 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.

12. A sheath to protect the finger.
13. (mining) The space left by excavation between pillars.
14. (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)

1. (transitive) To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.
2. To fatten.

3. (intransitive) To come to a standstill.
4. (transitive) To cause to stop making progress, to hinder, to slow down, to delay or forestall.
5. 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.

6. (intransitive, of an engine) To stop suddenly.
7. (transitive, automotive) To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear.
8. (intransitive, aviation) To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.
9. (transitive, aviation) To cause to exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.

10. (obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a stall; to dwell.
11. (obsolete) To be stuck, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.
12. (obsolete) To be tired of eating, as cattle.
13. To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
14. To forestall; to anticipate.
    • 1636, Philip Massinger, The Bashful Lover

      not to be stall'd by my report

15. 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)

1. 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)

1. (transitive) To employ delaying tactics against.

   He stalled the creditors as long as he could.

2. (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)

1. 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)

1. 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

1. stable, building for housing horses
2. a team in certain sports, in particular racing.
3. 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)

1. a stable (building where horses are housed)

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /f??l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Etymology 1

From Middle English foil, foille, from Old French fueille (“plant leaf”), from Late Latin folia, the plural of folium, mistaken as a singular feminine. Doublet of folio and folium.

Noun

foil (countable and uncountable, plural foils)

1. A very thin sheet of metal.
2. (uncountable) Thin aluminium/aluminum (or, formerly, tin) used for wrapping food.

3. A thin layer of metal put between a jewel and its setting to make it seem more brilliant.
4. (authorship, figuratively) In literature, theatre/theater, etc., a character who helps emphasize the traits of the main character and who usually acts as an opponent or antagonist.
5. (figuratively) Anything that acts by contrast to emphasise the characteristics of something.

   • As she a black silk cap on him begun / To set, for foil of his milk-white to serve.

   • 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey

     Hector has also a foil to set regard

6. (fencing) A very thin sword with a blunted (or foiled) tip
   • 1784-1810, William Mitford, History of Greece

     Socrates contended with a foil against Demosthenes with a sword.

7. A thin, transparent plastic material on which marks are made and projected for the purposes of presentation. See transparency.
8. (heraldry) A stylized flower or leaf.
9. A hydrofoil.
10. An aerofoil/airfoil.

Synonyms

• (thin aluminium/aluminum): aluminium foil, silver foil, silver paper, tin foil

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

foil (third-person singular simple present foils, present participle foiling, simple past and past participle foiled)

1. (transitive) To cover or wrap with foil.

Etymology 2

From Middle English foilen (“spoil a scent trail by crossing it”), from Old French fouler (“tread on, trample”), ultimately from Latin full? (“I trample, I full”).

Verb

foil (third-person singular simple present foils, present participle foiling, simple past and past participle foiled)

1. To prevent (something) from being accomplished.

2. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something.

   • And by mortal man at length am foil'd.
3. To blunt; to dull; to spoil.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Addison to this entry?)

4. (obsolete) To tread underfoot; to trample.
   • 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes

     King Richard […] caused the ensigns of Leopold to be pulled down and foiled underfoot.

   • Whom he did all to pieces breake and foyle, / In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle.

Synonyms

• (prevent from being accomplished): put the kibosh on, scupper, thwart

Translations

Noun

foil (plural foils)

1. Failure when on the point of attainment; defeat; frustration; miscarriage.
   • 1685, John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis

     Nor e'er was fate so near a foil.

2. One of the incorrect answers presented in a multiple-choice test.

Etymology 3

From French foulis.

Noun

foil (plural foils)

1. (hunting) The track of an animal.

Synonyms

• (track of an animal): spoor

Translations

Etymology 4

From mnemonic acronym FOIL (“First Outside Inside Last”).

Verb

foil (third-person singular simple present foils, present participle foiling, simple past and past participle foiled)

1. (mathematics) To expand a product of two or more algebraic expressions, typically binomials.

Translations

Etymology 5

See file.

Verb

foil (third-person singular simple present foils, present participle foiling, simple past and past participle foiled)

1. (obsolete) To defile; to soil.

Anagrams

• Filo, LIFO, filo, lo-fi, lofi

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin folium. Compare fueille, from the plural of folium, folia.

Noun

foil m (oblique plural fouz or foilz, nominative singular fouz or foilz, nominative plural foil)

1. leaf (green appendage of a plant which photosynthesizes)