different between sty vs stall

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English sty, from Old English st?, sti? (“sty, pen, a wooden enclosure; hall”, chiefly in compounds), from Proto-Germanic *stij?. Cognate with German Steige (“hen-coop”), Danish sti (“enclosure for swine, sheep, hens, etc.”), Swedish stia (“sty for pigs, geese, etc.”), Norwegian sti (“flock of sheep”), Icelandic stía (“a kennel”).

Noun

sty (plural sties)

1. A pen or enclosure for swine.
2. (figuratively) A messy, dirty or debauched place.

Synonyms

• (enclosure for swine): pigpen, pigsty
• (messy or dirty place): hovel, pigsty

Translations

Verb

sty (third-person singular simple present sties, present participle stying, simple past and past participle stied)

1. To place in, or as if in, a sty
2. To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place

Etymology 2

From Middle English stien, sti?en, from Old English st??an (“to go; ascend, mount”), from Proto-Germanic *st?gan?, from Proto-Indo-European *steyg?-. Cognate with Dutch stijgen, German steigen, Norwegian Bokmål stige, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish stiga, Old Norse stíga.

Alternative forms

• stee, stie, stigh, stye

Verb

sty (third-person singular simple present sties, present participle stying, simple past and past participle stied)

1. (obsolete) To ascend, rise up, climb. [9th-17th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xi:

     The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...].

   • From this lower tract he dared to stie up to the clowdes.

   • 1621, Richard Montague, Diatribae upon the first part of the late History of Tithes

     Led along, as some Creatures are, by the Noses, and voluntarily hood-winked; or like seeled Doves, sty up, you know not whither, nor how far.

   • 1652, Edward Benlowes, Theophila, or Love's Sacrifice

     That she might sty to the seat of Beatifick Mirth.

Derived terms

• styan
• stirrup

Related terms

• stile

Translations

Noun

sty (plural sties)

1. (Britain, dialectal) A ladder.

Translations

Etymology 3

Probably a back-formation from styany, mistaken for "sty-on-eye" but correctly from Middle English styany, composed of styan ("sty"; from Old English st??ende, present participle of st?gan (“to rise”)) + y (“eye”).

Alternative forms

• stye

Noun

sty (plural sties)

1. (medicine) An inflammation of the eyelid.

Translations

Anagrams

• YTS

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English sti?, st?, from Proto-Germanic *stij?.

Alternative forms

• stye, sty?e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti?/

Noun

sty (plural styes)

2. A pigsty (pen or set of pens for pigs)
3. (rare) Any other crude dwelling or abode.

Descendants

• English: sty

References

• “st?, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-08.

Etymology 2

From Old English st??, from Proto-Germanic *st?g?.

Alternative forms

• sti, stie, stye, stiyhe, sti?e, sti?he

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sti?/

Noun

sty (plural styes or sti?en)

2. A path, track or street.
3. (figuratively) One's chosen pathway or choices in life.
4. (figuratively, rare) A short narrative.

References

• “st?(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-08.

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)