different between stall vs tent

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

• enPR: t?nt, IPA^(key): /t?nt/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /t?nt/
    • Homophone: tint
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophone: tint (with pin-pen merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tente, borrowed from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta (“tent”), from the feminine of Latin tentus, ptp. of tendere (“to stretch, extend”). Displaced native Middle English tild, tilt (“tent, tilt”), from Old English teld (“tent”). Compare Spanish tienda (“store, shop; tent”).

Noun

tent (plural tents)

1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.

2. (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
3. (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     A splendid tent was erected on the brae north of the town, and round that the countless congregation assembled.

4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)

1. (intransitive) To go camping.

   We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.

2. (cooking) To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
3. (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.

   The sheet tented over his midsection.

Translations

See also

• camp
• lean-to
• lodge
• pavilion, pavillion
• pitch
• tarp

Etymology 2

From Middle English tent (“attention”), aphetic variation of attent (“attention”), from Old French atente (“attention, intention”), from Latin attenta, feminine of attentus, past participle of attendere (“to attend”).

Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)

1. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed
2. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) to guard; to hinder.

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

Noun

tent (plural tents)

1. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.

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

2. (archaic) Intention; design.

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

Etymology 3

From Middle English tente (“a probe”), from Middle French tente, deverbal of tenter, from Latin tent?re (“to probe, test”), alteration of tempt?re (“to test, probe, tempt”).

Noun

tent (plural tents)

2. (medicine) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
3. (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.

Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)

1. (medicine, sometimes figuratively) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

   to tent a wound

Etymology 4

From Spanish tinto (“deep-colored”), from Latin tinctus, past participle of tingo (“to dye”). More at tinge, tint, tinto. Compare claret (“French red wine”), also from color.

Noun

tent (plural tents)

1. (archaic) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.

See also

• claret, hock, sack

Anagrams

• Nett, nett

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tente, from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta or *tenda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?nt/
• Hyphenation: tent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

tent m (plural tenten, diminutive tentje n)

1. tent (for camping, special occasions, etc.)
2. pavillion

   Synonym: paviljoen

3. (informal, Dutch, often in compounds) a building, especially one used for commercial purposes

   Synonym: keet

Derived terms

• circustent
• hottentottententententoonstelling
• kermistent

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tent

1. past participle of tenne

Southern Kam

Adjective

tent

1. short