Definition of stall in English:

stall

noun stɔːlstɔl

1A stand, booth, or compartment for the sale of goods in a market or large covered area.
（市场等的）货摊，摊位
fruit and vegetable stalls
水果蔬菜摊。
Example sentencesExamples
- It was market day and the stalls stood in rows with local people in colourful ethnic clothes squeezing together in throngs, full of happiness.
- However, it is very difficult to eat badly in Taipei, and dozens of fine restaurants and market stalls are within an easy walk.
- The charity, which relies heavily on donations from tourists, has a stall at Fethiye market every Tuesday with further information and photographs of their work.
- Dawn's parents Doreen and Raymond Stewart have run a jewellery stall on the Monday market for 16 years and their only daughter followed them into the business.
- People think buying copies is a victimless crime, but the idea that they are ‘just’ being sold by a couple of guys at a market stall or car-boot sale is misleading.
- The ambassador was saluted on her way, and she even stopped to buy some fruits from a market stall.
- To compensate for the weather which dries the skin and chaps the lips, there are goodies in the form of freshly grilled kababs in the stalls around Russel Market and elsewhere.
- Roadsides are full of market stalls with fruit, vegetables, meat and other items.
- Traders at Moreton market abandoned their stalls as crowds of shoppers rushed for cover and flood water rushed down the High Street.
- There are a number of sweet snacks on sale at market and roadside stalls; puff-puff are a sort of doughnut and chin-chin are crispy morsels of sweetened dough.
- Suwarni sells friend banana to market stalls, her husband sells coconuts.
- He had found work in the local market filling the stall and selling vegetables.
- Around the central area will be a selection of market stalls, lawn areas, sports activity zones and play areas.
- Tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stones will be on view at rickety little tables and stalls in the market, and in most cases the stones are genuine.
- One of the culinary favourites here is asparagus and some of the stalls in the vegetable market were piled high with this succulent delicacy.
- But even now the stores include counters based on market stalls, selling fruit, bread and more Morrison-made pies and sausages.
- You'd expect to see a lot of market stalls, but there weren't many this year, and the street vendors were mainly selling food.
- Allen Booth has run his fish stall on the town market for nearly 50 years.
- In fact, you don't even have to leave Bangkok to be entertained and amazed by the variety of restaurants, food stalls and markets on display.
- An article in another paper wrote about the sale of fireworks from a stall in a flea market in Port of Spain.
Synonyms
stand, table, counter, booth, kiosk, compartment
2An individual compartment for an animal in a stable or cowshed, enclosed on three sides.
牲畜棚里的隔间，隔栏
Example sentencesExamples
- Circulating or urinary cortisol concentrations were similar when sows were housed in stalls or groups with three to six pigs per pen.
- Because of individual horse stalls, manual cleaning with a fork or shovel and wheelbarrow, tractor loader, or trailer is common.
- Sighing, the girl entered the stables and walked down the rows of stalls, greeting each individual horse by name.
- From inside I could hear the animals shifting in their stalls, ready to be set free for the day.
- The 18 free stalls used were divided into six sets, excluding both stalls at each end of the row.
- Bales of hay were piled everywhere, and relatively crude stalls housed various farming animals, from horses to pigs.
- The animals were confined to drylot paddocks and fed the assigned concentrate in individual feeding stalls.
- Sows housed in pens and stalls had similar mean values across all measures with each analysis that was used.
- Inside the milking parlor, Lifeline milker Clint Weidkamp coaxes a new heifer into the first of four stalls.
- After the barn was raised, I built a cowshed and horse stall on the east side.
- I grinned at him, took Viento's reins, and led him out of his stall, across the stables.
- In contrast to moving from outdoors to neck tethers, moving from outdoors to indoor gestation pens or stalls did not inhibit litter size.
- There must have been at least forty stalls in the huge stable, and the loft above had rolled stacks of hay.
- Once clinically stable, each animal was returned to its stall.
- This configuration recalls the form of traditional livestock barns with a center walkway and animal stalls to each side.
- Farrowing rate for sows in individual stalls was equal to or superior to sows in other systems.
- Cate put Midnight back in his stall in the stable, then slipped back into the manor, concealing her riding clothing in the back of her wardrobe.
- The use of specialized animal stalls and tethers is accepted as a science-based industry standard of management.
- A copper and an odd crimson brown stallion occupied two stalls on the far end, and three mares were stabled a few stalls down from Asa and across the row.
- There stood eight stalls in the stable, six of which contained animals.
Synonyms
pen, coop, sty, corral, enclosure, compartment, cubicle
1. 2.1 A stable or cowshed.
  马厩；牛棚
  Example sentencesExamples
  Stocks Market, on the site of the Mansion House, had been in existence for some centuries but was increasingly challenged by Covent Garden, started as a few sheds and stalls.
2. 2.2North American A marked-out parking space for a vehicle.
  〈北美〉（机动车停车场的）车位
  a parking stall
  Example sentencesExamples
  Lot 50B contains 222 stalls currently and is designated for reserve staff parking.
  Redevelopment has since reduced it to 443 parking stalls.
  The local McDonald's reserves parking stalls for horse-drawn buggies.
  The current parking ratio of 0.26 stalls per faculty/staff/student is above the national average of 0.23.
  The new Sonic has 30 parking stalls and six walk-up stations as well as drive-thru service.
  Identify the free stall users with parking passes and after a year the city can decide based on use whether to add or reduce the number of free stalls, she said.
  Sheldon, however, had made it back and noticed Caleb's black BMW still in its parking stall.
  Traffic orders ban parking on the setts on market days until 6.45 pm - but the regulations are widely ignored with drivers parking up as soon as a stall is cleared.
3. 2.3 A cage-like compartment in which a horse is held immediately prior to the start of a race.
  （赛马开始前各马站位的）单间马房
  Example sentencesExamples
  New York Racing Association assistant starter Fred Lewis pulled a colleague from underneath a thrashing horse who had flipped in a starting stall at Saratoga Race Course.
  A central computer then allocates a saddle cloth number to each horse and determines the stall from which it will start.
  Pacemaker Starbourne raced well clear from the stalls with Frankie Dettori's Kazzia pulling along the chasing pack.
  The horse was reluctant to enter the stalls but came through with a storming late run to edge out Touch of the Blues by three-quarters of a length with Century City third.
  The start had seen some unscheduled drama as Guest Connections was pulled out of the race after rearing up in the stalls - leaving jockey Tony Culhane on the ground.
  You have got to keep your horse relaxed so you go into the stalls as quietly as possible.
  Unlike National Hunt, all Flat races start from stalls.
  The well-fancied Diaghilev loses his chance at the very beginning of the race when he dallies in the stalls.
  The horses charge out of the stalls although Wintertide is caught napping and immediately drops a few lengths.
  There is drama before the race as Red Power rears up and throws off Johnny Murtagh in front of the stalls - the horse is withdrawn from the race.
4. 2.4 A compartment for one person in a set of toilets, shower cubicles, etc.
  （浴室、卫生间等的）小分隔间
  Example sentencesExamples
  They have no football locker room, sharing showers and stalls with their other sports teams.
  Wrapping a towel around herself, she stepped out of the shower stall and walked into the warm room, searching for the shirt Kyle had given her.
  Some even claim that the toilet stalls, with leather walls and designer lights, are the nicest toilets in Sofia.
  Stepping into the last bathroom stall, I lock the door behind me.
  You see, our apartment only has a shower stall with no tub.
  There was even an attached bathroom with sinks, toilets and shower stalls.
  Taking off her clothes and stepping into the shower stall, she pulled the curtain across and turned on the hot water.
  Pushing the door open with his elbow, he entered a small, well-kept lavatory with a white painted stall in one corner and two sinks on the other wall.
  There were four sinks to the left, and four toilets with stalls near the showers.
  She took a quick shower in one of the moldy shower stalls, and put on her other clothes.
  Another door revealed a bathroom with only a shower stall, sink and a toilet.
  Dry towels hung from a plastic rack on the linoleum wall across from the shower stalls.
  Remember bathtubs and shower stalls may require support framing.
  After brushing my teeth, I stepped into the shower stall and ran the tap.
  Twenty minutes later, I had checked every stall in the aforementioned bathroom and every other bathroom in the building.
  For optimum household cleanliness and health, clean and disinfect your shower stalls and glass shower doors at least once a week.
  I saw the manager cleaning the men's bathroom, including picking up discarded toilet paper off the floor of a toilet stall.
  I went to the shower stall and turned the knob to hot, and pulled it out, waiting for the water to come flowing through it.
  For example, you test the water temperature with your hand before stepping into the shower stall.
  And always wear a pair of plastic flip-flops to prevent picking up common bacteria found in the shower stalls.
3A fixed seat in the choir or chancel of a church, enclosed at the back and sides and often canopied, typically reserved for a particular member of the clergy.
（教堂唱诗班席位或高坛上的）牧师专座（座位后面和侧面多少会有些围栏，顶上常有罩盖）
Example sentencesExamples
- Above the church stalls to the left of the altar, however, hangs a small painting that is deceptively unassuming.
- The choir stalls were moved from the chancel to their present position in the nave in 1961 to make room for the bishop's throne and canon's stalls.
- There were so many choir wannabes that they filled the choir platform, the stalls and the circle seats - and outnumbered the audience confined to the upper galleries.
- It was in her clumsiness that when she moved to turn around after the hymn she knocked her music folder expertly over the edge of the pew stall and onto the marble floor out of her reach.
- Yesterday's ceremony was the formal installation of the king, who was appointed to a stall - or seat - in St George's Chapel, home of the order.
- When James Bell, the recently consecrated Bishop of Knaresborough was an honorary Canon of Ripon Cathedral he occupied the stall of St Hilda.
4stallsBritish The seats on the ground floor in a theatre.
〈英〉（剧院，电影院）堂座
as modifier a stalls seat
Example sentencesExamples
- As it happens, there was a ticket mix-up and during the break we were moved from circle seats down to the stalls.
- One evening she had sat in the Tsar's Box, not in the regular management seats in the stalls.
- Some feel that 20 for a seat in the stalls is a bit steep.
- Seated halfway back in the stalls, I thought the harpsichord sounded distractingly amplified.
- He then left the row behind us and returned to his seat somewhere towards the back of the stalls.
- Outside, the touts are charging £90 for a seat in the stalls, with no shortage of takers.
- I remember crying in the back stalls when Storm Boy lost gallant Mr Percival.
- From the moment Walter van Dyk started from the back of the stalls to sing the opening of The Threepenny Opera, I felt a frisson which lasted to the end of the evening.
- It is a measure of this play's success that the call resounds; the wooden courtroom roof arches high above the stalls, and up into the shadows of the audience.
- For performances on December 21 to 24, the stalls and dress circle are almost sold out, but grand circle seats are available.
- All the world may well be a stage, but you still expect to find newspaper theatre critics in the stalls rather than treading the boards.
- The action is seen as it would be from a good seat in the theatre stalls.
- A new grid above the front stalls allows objects to be flown over the first three rows.
- In my own case, I usually purchase seats in the stalls for six adults and five children costing in the region of £100.
- I was being taken to the stalls and given one of the best seats in the place.
Synonyms
North American orchestra, parterre
5An instance of an engine, vehicle, aircraft, or boat stalling.
（发动机的）熄火；（车辆的）抛锚；（飞机的）失速；（轮船的）停泊
speed must be maintained to avoid a stall and loss of control
必须保持速度来防止熄火和失控。
Example sentencesExamples
- This was especially important for students who were learning carrier landings which were carried out at slow speed and close to the stall.
- Having got through the psychological barrier of throttling back to idle, I allowed the aircraft to decelerate to the stall.
- This is done to keep you from pulling back on the stick when the ‘G’ forces hit you, and cause an accidental stall on takeoff.
- This action recovered the aircraft from the deep stall.
- The Texan was seen to hesitate momentarily, then slide back on its tail and wing over in recovery from a hammerhead stall.
- We also know that once we break the stall, the ailerons are our best roll mechanism.
- But if the stick is moved back when the airplane is very close to the stall the aircraft will not pitch up much, if at all.
- If you're deep into the stall when the wing pays off, you can even drop it in a few feet without bouncing.
- My instructor told me to go fly it by myself out in the practice area to get the feel of the aircraft: Do some stalls, spin a few times, but have a lot of attitude.
- You'll have more precise control of the plane and can use things like engine stalls to your advantage.
- The suggestion in the NTSB's report was that the pilot got into a cross-control stall.
- Failing one engine, he brought the aircraft to a stall to stop the rotation of the failed engine's prop.
- The 29 working units are frequently plagued by flameouts, engine stalls, generator failures and general mechanical problems.
- If approaching a stall at racing altitude there would be no chance of recovery.
- When the pilot attempted to fly in a vertical direction to create a stall, the aircraft was forced into a spin.
- Fly the airplane to the bottom of the envelope, and stalls are a non-event, a good indication of landing manners as well.
- Investigators had to rely on other things to figure out what caused the airplane to experience an aerodynamic stall at a critically low altitude.
- Cherokee stalls have long been notable for their supremely gentle nature, sometimes, hardly a stall at all.
- He pulled up into a stall, kicked it into a left hand spin and I started to count.
- After he took it up, felt out the controls and made a couple of stalls, he shot several landings.

verb stɔːlstɔl

1no object (of a motor vehicle or its engine) stop running, typically because of an overload on the engine.
（尤指因引擎超负荷而导致机动车或其引擎）熄火，抛锚
her car stalled at the crossroads
她的汽车在十字路口熄火了。
Example sentencesExamples
- My car stalled twice on the way there and then someone had parked in my spot.
- He looked at the dashboard and, alarmed at the galaxy of flashing lights, realized that the car had stalled.
- The school bus stalls, sending Ralph walking back to the nearest gas station.
- At that moment, the car stalled, leaving us stuck in the middle of a waterlogged street.
- Then the unthinkable happened: her car stalled.
- Meanwhile, a bus stalled at the Harmony shelter, forcing the driver to move the passengers to another bus.
- If you've let the fuel run down to rock bottom very often, you might find your car stalling and sputtering.
- Although the car never stalled for me, I was able to duplicate the customer's complaint of trouble on steep grades.
- Cars stalled in traffic cause more pollution than cars on the open road.
- The engine stalled at the first corner we drove round, but we got it working again soon.
- But after the refuelling and tyre change was complete, the car stalled twice as Leitzinger attempted to leave the pits.
- Unfortunately, the car stalled as I went to pull out of the pit, which put us in the back of the field.
- We had decided not to change the steering wheel at the first stop because it can mess up the electronics, but after the car stalled we changed it then had to wait for the system to reset.
- At first I couldn't think why the car had simply stalled and tried to restart it several times to no avail.
- I had the clutch pedal depressed but the car slowly started to creep forward and the engine stalled.
- Because torrential rain had flooded the road, the driver and passengers stayed on-board after the engine had stalled.
- Yet the rattling continues and if it's not fixed, eventually something will give and the engine will stall.
- ‘It was like I was looking at it in slow motion when all those cars were going by,’ said Lehto, who had to restart the car when the engine stalled on the spin.
- Like with a manual car, if you didn't have a clutch to disconnect the wheels from the engine, when the car stops moving the engine would stall.
- The old jeep's engine stalled briefly before coming on again at full power.
1. 1.1 (of an aircraft) stop flying and begin to fall because the speed is too low or the angle of attack too large to maintain adequate lift.
  （飞机或其飞行员航速过低或攻角过大不能保持升力时）失速
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the worst-case scenario, the pilot pitches up to maintain altitude, gets too slow, stalls and spins to the ground.
  Most GA aircraft today have wings designed to stall at or near the wing root first, then progress out toward the wingtips.
  This mechanism prevents stalling at high angles of attack, generating a greater degree of aerodynamic lift and aiding maneuverability in slow, turning flight.
  The aircraft can stall and fall and there is nothing you can do about it.
  You would be flying along, at cruise, do nothing, and suddenly the glider would stall because of tail gusting.
  A sudden decrease in head wind or increase in tail wind can cause an aircraft to stall.
  I would sit back, stall, take my feet off the rudder pedals and, using the stick to keep level, losing altitude as we fluttered down to earth.
  While still attempting to not stall or over speed, I began a turn in the general direction of the divert fields.
  An investigation found that crew errors led to the aircraft stalling and crashing during the approach to the airport.
  I was afraid that the glider would stall when I was close to the ground and spin in.
  He reported that shortly after initiating the turn, the airplane appeared to stall, and rotated to the left.
  Huge flaps, functioning like parachutes, lifted on each wing, and the Concorde's airspeed dropped swiftly as the aircraft stalled.
  On his second operational flight in a Sopwith Pup, he stalled just after take off at Dunkirk and crashed the aircraft, breaking his leg and gashing his head.
  If it has an altitude-hold feature, it may cause the airplane to stall by pitching the nose up to maintain your selected altitude.
  The planes won't have enough lift to fly at that altitude, and they'll stall and fall back to the ground.
  You are about ten knots above stalling as always - a stall now could be fatal.
  We learned to takeoff, land, spin, stall, perform precision turns, lazy eights, pylon eights and aerobatics.
  The need to quickly stall the wing probably restricts the use of this mechanism to low-speed flight, when the wings are at a high angle of attack and more easily stalled.
  At no speed the glider stalled and because of the left turn my left wing went down first.
  On standby instruments alone, he would have to avoid stalling or overspeeding the aircraft.
2. 1.2Sailing Have insufficient wind power in the sails to give controlled motion.
  〔航海〕（由于风力不够而）航行失控
  Example sentencesExamples
  A sailing ship that becomes stalled with its bow to the wind is said to be ‘in irons.’
  Rey and his crew skillfully brought the boat to a near-standstill, pointed into the wind and on the verge of stalling out.
  The sail coefficient of lift increases to its maximum and we are on the point of stalling the sail.
3. 1.3with object Cause to stall.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Green said the men ordered her to climb back into the vehicle but they had stalled the car and were unable to restart it.
  When turbulence is kicked up by its rotors, it can actually stall the rotors, cause rolling sensations, even more.
  I lost a few positions when I stalled the engine during the second pit stop.
  Rice was leading 100 laps into the race when he stalled his car's engine in the pits.
  The chaos left in his wake, stalled the boat's forward momentum and Farash grimly pulled hard on both rudders to keep the craft from turning about in midstream.
  In flight, there was less than a ten knot difference between a speed so fast that it would rip the wings off the aircraft and a speed so slow that it would stall the engine.
  The Madrid based driver stalled the engine at the start of the second stage.
  On October 30, just as the flood waters were creeping up in Ryedale, she drove her Peugeot car through a deep puddle and stalled the engine.
2Stop or cause to stop making progress.
（情形，过程）停止发展
no object his career had stalled, hers taken off
他的事业停滞不前，她的事业却开始起飞。
with object the government has stalled the much-needed project
政府推迟了那个急需的项目。
Example sentencesExamples
- Casey is a man in a hurry, obsessed with gadgets, determined, for instance, to shop only on-line, but his progress has stalled a little this year.
- Progress has been stalled by the dispute with the surface rights owner.
- Two years ago her career stalled when she suffered a double fracture of the right ankle.
- When the two first started working together, Graham's career had stalled.
- Asked what he would do if the attempt to resurrect his career stalled, he said: ‘I would be at a loss.’
- Carter's career has been stalled by two elbow surgeries, which cost him all of the 1997 and 2001 seasons.
- But that deal could be stalled by an offer from the Co-op, according to weekend reports.
- Manjula Herath, a second year player whose progress has been stalled by injury, is the left arm spinner.
- It did not win the approval of the professors, and Gray's career as a muralist stalled before it had even started.
- Perhaps it is unfair to pre-empt what will come out at the meeting, but at this stage progress has been stalled so many times, and for so many reasons, that people are bound to be sceptical.
- Coun Merry's political progress stalled after the death of his wife, Dr Feryal Raja, in 1995, but he came back strongly as deputy in 1998.
- But she is simply not in the class to challenge at this stage of a career which has stalled badly in recent seasons.
- But, as the environment slowly ebbed away as an election issue, progress stalled.
- In several countries there is a concern that road safety progress has stalled.
- I won't discuss my other projects in progress that are stalled and waiting.
- But as soon as those mergers were announced, progress on any deal stalled.
- On the first day, the assault fell three miles short of the Pierson line, while further south they had made better progress but were stalled at the Miteirya Ridge.
- But since then progress has once again stalled with no resolution in sight.
- Work on the Mysore-Bangalore expressway has again been stalled by a stay order from the Supreme Court.
- His career stalled, Rodgers unenthusiastically enrolled at Columbia, following his brother's pre-med path.
Synonyms
obstruct, impede, interfere with, hinder, hamper, block, interrupt, hold up, hold back, stand in the way of, frustrate, thwart, baulk, inhibit, hamstring, sabotage, encumber, restrain, slow, slow down, retard, delay, stonewall, forestall, arrest, check, stop, halt, stay, derail, restrict, limit, curb, put a brake on, bridle, fetter, shackle
informal stymie
North American informal bork
rare trammel
1. 2.1no object Speak or act in a deliberately vague way in order to gain more time to deal with something; prevaricate.
  （为争取更多的时间而）拖延；支吾，搪塞
  she was stalling for time
  她在拖延时间。
  Example sentencesExamples
  ‘Truth,’ she decided, drawing out the word as if stalling for time.
  Michael's voice rose in hesitation as he stretched his neck and scratched, stalling for time.
  He said Jasbir was being pressurised to go ahead with the marriage but had been stalling for time.
  I hesitated, stalling for time, but she would have none of it.
  Phillip shuffled papers nervously, stalling for time.
  ‘Quit stalling Dan and tell me’ impatience clear in her tone.
  She was stalling for time, avoiding the moment when she would tell him that it was over.
  The husband cleared his throat, stalling for time in which to think of a polite response.
  I was stalling for time that I knew I didn't have.
  A contract was drawn up, but Billie-Jean kept stalling on exchange and settlement dates.
  A single car meandered down the street, an executive returning home late from work, stalling for time before he entered the house of the angry wife.
  You're not really looking for something you're stalling for time.
  ‘You're stalling for time,’ she said wisely, correctly deducing what I was trying to do as well as what I had done.
  The government is stalling on the estuary while it tries to find a way through its foreshore and seabed dilemma.
  Industry critics say they are stalling for time to think up more positive ways of presenting farmed fish.
  I was stalling for time, not sure how to reply to this question.
  ‘I don't know,’ I said, stalling for time as I tried to process the information she'd thrown at me in rapid-fire.
  Or is the Court simply stalling for time until a new chief justice is appointed?
  The government is stalling on this reasonable request.
  She was trying to find the right words to say and was stalling for time.
  Synonyms
  use delaying tactics, play for time, temporize, gain time, hang back, hang fire, hold back, procrastinate, hedge, beat about the bush, drag one's feet, delay, filibuster, stonewall
  US informal kick the can down the road
2. 2.2with object Delay or divert (someone) by prevarication.
  拖延；把…的注意力引开
  stall him until I've had time to take a look
  拖住他，直到我有时间来看一看。
  Example sentencesExamples
  So, while the other officers stalled him, I managed to slip in underneath the cabin and creep up from behind him.
  When he winced again, she knew that he wasn't stalling her.
  So when Michel popped the question, she said the first thing that came into her head as a way of stalling him: ‘Only if the King of Tonga marries us.’
  Coyne said he waited until the bell rang so students could change classes without seeing Mayer in the hallway, adding he ‘could understand why Mayer thought he was stalling him.’
  ‘I'm sorry to have stalled you, your highness,’ she added, addressing Cedric.
  She laughed at the question and knew that I was trying to stall her.
  The crowd was stalling the police, and as Roni was pulled into a back room, they heard gunfire begin.
  Jessie and Paul had a quick chat in the kitchen whilst Alora stalled Lisa by talking to her in the living room.
  ‘And you are just trying to stall me,’ she said, shoving the jeans in my direction.
  She is really pestering me for the information, and so far I have been able to stall her, but not for long, so a quick answer to my problem, please.
  By the time I even thought about stalling him, it was too late.
  I was trying to stall him, until my desperate and panicked mind could think of one way out of this.
  She had stalled the police before; she wasn't sure how much longer she could continue to stall them.
  You both know it, and that's why he's stalling you as long as he can.
  Start making scenes in his shop and he'll stall you for months with references to far-away bureaucrats without whose say-so nothing can move.
  Barnabas is still trying to stall him, but Roger starts heading upstairs, telling Barnabas he is tired and Barnabas can let himself out.
  The Medical staff of the local maternity hospital have been less than helpful, stalling her and not giving her a scan to see how far on the pregnancy is.
  Michael rose to leave but his opponent's voice stalled him.
  This direct approach got the job done much faster than using the appeal channels that are designed to stall you and make you powerless.
  I had left a little later than I wanted to due to the fact that my mother felt like stalling me.
  Synonyms
  delay, divert, distract
  hold off, stave off, fend off, keep off, ward off, keep at bay, keep at arm's length
3with object Put or keep (an animal) in a stall, especially in order to fatten it.
把（牲畜）关在厩内（养肥）
the horses were stalled at Upper Bolney Farm
Example sentencesExamples
- A horse that is stalled, as some police horses are, would have no opportunity to develop this vice.
- Stallions that are stalled tend to move about more and sometimes roll more frequently then when they are turned out.
- One more row was behind these stalls on both sides, allowing a maximum of eighty horses to be stalled in the large place.
- ‘You could see where the horses had been stalled,’ Andy recalls of that first visit to the barn.

Phrases

set out one's stall

Display or assert one's abilities or position.
he has set out his stall as a strong supporter of free trade
Example sentencesExamples
- Activists in the Campaign for Yorkshire set out their stall in York city centre to speak to shoppers and gather support.
- Both sides set out their stall from the opening whistle, setting a frenetic pace, which they somehow managed to maintain right to the end.
- ‘He will essentially be setting out his stall in a much more detailed way than he has been able to do so far,’ one aide said.
- I would face off with anybody, I never back down once I have set out my stall, but this is back-breaking.
- There was a degree of scepticism when we set out our stall in September that we would manage to deliver the deal to shareholders before Christmas, so it is gratifying.
- ‘We came here to set out our stall and win the game,’ said Leishman in one of his less poetic utterings.
- Thomas Keneally sets out his stall in a covering letter that arrives with the review copy of his latest work of fiction.
- Anyone setting out his stall specifically for a big marlin, tuna, or shark, would be very unfortunate indeed not to achieve something of boasting size.
- ‘We have sharpened our prices and set out our stall to sell quality merchandise,’ he added.
- The conductor sets out his stall with a deliberately paced opening.

Origin

Old English steall 'stable or cattle shed', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stal, also to stand. Early senses of the verb included 'reside, dwell' and 'bring to a halt'.

Rhymes

all, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, forestall, gall, Galle, Gaul, hall, haul, maul, miaul, miscall, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, pall, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stonewall, tall, thrall, trawl, wall, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl

Definition of stall in US English:

stall

nounstôlstɔl

1A stand, booth, or compartment for the sale of goods in a market or large covered area.
（市场等的）货摊，摊位
fruit and vegetable stalls
水果蔬菜摊。
Example sentencesExamples
- He had found work in the local market filling the stall and selling vegetables.
- The ambassador was saluted on her way, and she even stopped to buy some fruits from a market stall.
- Roadsides are full of market stalls with fruit, vegetables, meat and other items.
- There are a number of sweet snacks on sale at market and roadside stalls; puff-puff are a sort of doughnut and chin-chin are crispy morsels of sweetened dough.
- Around the central area will be a selection of market stalls, lawn areas, sports activity zones and play areas.
- To compensate for the weather which dries the skin and chaps the lips, there are goodies in the form of freshly grilled kababs in the stalls around Russel Market and elsewhere.
- An article in another paper wrote about the sale of fireworks from a stall in a flea market in Port of Spain.
- But even now the stores include counters based on market stalls, selling fruit, bread and more Morrison-made pies and sausages.
- One of the culinary favourites here is asparagus and some of the stalls in the vegetable market were piled high with this succulent delicacy.
- You'd expect to see a lot of market stalls, but there weren't many this year, and the street vendors were mainly selling food.
- Allen Booth has run his fish stall on the town market for nearly 50 years.
- It was market day and the stalls stood in rows with local people in colourful ethnic clothes squeezing together in throngs, full of happiness.
- In fact, you don't even have to leave Bangkok to be entertained and amazed by the variety of restaurants, food stalls and markets on display.
- People think buying copies is a victimless crime, but the idea that they are ‘just’ being sold by a couple of guys at a market stall or car-boot sale is misleading.
- However, it is very difficult to eat badly in Taipei, and dozens of fine restaurants and market stalls are within an easy walk.
- Suwarni sells friend banana to market stalls, her husband sells coconuts.
- The charity, which relies heavily on donations from tourists, has a stall at Fethiye market every Tuesday with further information and photographs of their work.
- Traders at Moreton market abandoned their stalls as crowds of shoppers rushed for cover and flood water rushed down the High Street.
- Dawn's parents Doreen and Raymond Stewart have run a jewellery stall on the Monday market for 16 years and their only daughter followed them into the business.
- Tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stones will be on view at rickety little tables and stalls in the market, and in most cases the stones are genuine.
Synonyms
stand, table, counter, booth, kiosk, compartment
2An individual compartment for an animal in a stable or barn, enclosed on three sides.
牲畜棚里的隔间，隔栏
Example sentencesExamples
- Sighing, the girl entered the stables and walked down the rows of stalls, greeting each individual horse by name.
- Farrowing rate for sows in individual stalls was equal to or superior to sows in other systems.
- There stood eight stalls in the stable, six of which contained animals.
- The animals were confined to drylot paddocks and fed the assigned concentrate in individual feeding stalls.
- A copper and an odd crimson brown stallion occupied two stalls on the far end, and three mares were stabled a few stalls down from Asa and across the row.
- This configuration recalls the form of traditional livestock barns with a center walkway and animal stalls to each side.
- From inside I could hear the animals shifting in their stalls, ready to be set free for the day.
- The use of specialized animal stalls and tethers is accepted as a science-based industry standard of management.
- Once clinically stable, each animal was returned to its stall.
- Inside the milking parlor, Lifeline milker Clint Weidkamp coaxes a new heifer into the first of four stalls.
- Cate put Midnight back in his stall in the stable, then slipped back into the manor, concealing her riding clothing in the back of her wardrobe.
- Because of individual horse stalls, manual cleaning with a fork or shovel and wheelbarrow, tractor loader, or trailer is common.
- There must have been at least forty stalls in the huge stable, and the loft above had rolled stacks of hay.
- Bales of hay were piled everywhere, and relatively crude stalls housed various farming animals, from horses to pigs.
- Circulating or urinary cortisol concentrations were similar when sows were housed in stalls or groups with three to six pigs per pen.
- I grinned at him, took Viento's reins, and led him out of his stall, across the stables.
- In contrast to moving from outdoors to neck tethers, moving from outdoors to indoor gestation pens or stalls did not inhibit litter size.
- The 18 free stalls used were divided into six sets, excluding both stalls at each end of the row.
- After the barn was raised, I built a cowshed and horse stall on the east side.
- Sows housed in pens and stalls had similar mean values across all measures with each analysis that was used.
Synonyms
pen, coop, sty, corral, enclosure, compartment, cubicle
1. 2.1 A stable.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Stocks Market, on the site of the Mansion House, had been in existence for some centuries but was increasingly challenged by Covent Garden, started as a few sheds and stalls.
2. 2.2North American A marked-out parking space for a vehicle.
  〈北美〉（机动车停车场的）车位
  Example sentencesExamples
  The current parking ratio of 0.26 stalls per faculty/staff/student is above the national average of 0.23.
  Identify the free stall users with parking passes and after a year the city can decide based on use whether to add or reduce the number of free stalls, she said.
  Lot 50B contains 222 stalls currently and is designated for reserve staff parking.
  Sheldon, however, had made it back and noticed Caleb's black BMW still in its parking stall.
  The local McDonald's reserves parking stalls for horse-drawn buggies.
  Traffic orders ban parking on the setts on market days until 6.45 pm - but the regulations are widely ignored with drivers parking up as soon as a stall is cleared.
  Redevelopment has since reduced it to 443 parking stalls.
  The new Sonic has 30 parking stalls and six walk-up stations as well as drive-thru service.
3. 2.3 A compartment for one person in a shower room, restroom, or similar facility.
  （浴室、卫生间等的）小分隔间
  Example sentencesExamples
  And always wear a pair of plastic flip-flops to prevent picking up common bacteria found in the shower stalls.
  I went to the shower stall and turned the knob to hot, and pulled it out, waiting for the water to come flowing through it.
  Wrapping a towel around herself, she stepped out of the shower stall and walked into the warm room, searching for the shirt Kyle had given her.
  Dry towels hung from a plastic rack on the linoleum wall across from the shower stalls.
  Remember bathtubs and shower stalls may require support framing.
  After brushing my teeth, I stepped into the shower stall and ran the tap.
  For optimum household cleanliness and health, clean and disinfect your shower stalls and glass shower doors at least once a week.
  She took a quick shower in one of the moldy shower stalls, and put on her other clothes.
  They have no football locker room, sharing showers and stalls with their other sports teams.
  Taking off her clothes and stepping into the shower stall, she pulled the curtain across and turned on the hot water.
  You see, our apartment only has a shower stall with no tub.
  For example, you test the water temperature with your hand before stepping into the shower stall.
  There were four sinks to the left, and four toilets with stalls near the showers.
  Pushing the door open with his elbow, he entered a small, well-kept lavatory with a white painted stall in one corner and two sinks on the other wall.
  Stepping into the last bathroom stall, I lock the door behind me.
  Twenty minutes later, I had checked every stall in the aforementioned bathroom and every other bathroom in the building.
  There was even an attached bathroom with sinks, toilets and shower stalls.
  Another door revealed a bathroom with only a shower stall, sink and a toilet.
  Some even claim that the toilet stalls, with leather walls and designer lights, are the nicest toilets in Sofia.
  I saw the manager cleaning the men's bathroom, including picking up discarded toilet paper off the floor of a toilet stall.
3A fixed seat in the choir or chancel of a church, more or less enclosed at the back and sides and often canopied, typically reserved for a particular member of the clergy.
（教堂唱诗班席位或高坛上的）牧师专座（座位后面和侧面多少会有些围栏，顶上常有罩盖）
Example sentencesExamples
- There were so many choir wannabes that they filled the choir platform, the stalls and the circle seats - and outnumbered the audience confined to the upper galleries.
- It was in her clumsiness that when she moved to turn around after the hymn she knocked her music folder expertly over the edge of the pew stall and onto the marble floor out of her reach.
- The choir stalls were moved from the chancel to their present position in the nave in 1961 to make room for the bishop's throne and canon's stalls.
- When James Bell, the recently consecrated Bishop of Knaresborough was an honorary Canon of Ripon Cathedral he occupied the stall of St Hilda.
- Yesterday's ceremony was the formal installation of the king, who was appointed to a stall - or seat - in St George's Chapel, home of the order.
- Above the church stalls to the left of the altar, however, hangs a small painting that is deceptively unassuming.
4stallsBritish The seats on the ground floor in a theater.
〈英〉（剧院，电影院）堂座
Example sentencesExamples
- It is a measure of this play's success that the call resounds; the wooden courtroom roof arches high above the stalls, and up into the shadows of the audience.
- The action is seen as it would be from a good seat in the theatre stalls.
- As it happens, there was a ticket mix-up and during the break we were moved from circle seats down to the stalls.
- One evening she had sat in the Tsar's Box, not in the regular management seats in the stalls.
- Seated halfway back in the stalls, I thought the harpsichord sounded distractingly amplified.
- In my own case, I usually purchase seats in the stalls for six adults and five children costing in the region of £100.
- Some feel that 20 for a seat in the stalls is a bit steep.
- From the moment Walter van Dyk started from the back of the stalls to sing the opening of The Threepenny Opera, I felt a frisson which lasted to the end of the evening.
- He then left the row behind us and returned to his seat somewhere towards the back of the stalls.
- I remember crying in the back stalls when Storm Boy lost gallant Mr Percival.
- A new grid above the front stalls allows objects to be flown over the first three rows.
- Outside, the touts are charging £90 for a seat in the stalls, with no shortage of takers.
- For performances on December 21 to 24, the stalls and dress circle are almost sold out, but grand circle seats are available.
- All the world may well be a stage, but you still expect to find newspaper theatre critics in the stalls rather than treading the boards.
- I was being taken to the stalls and given one of the best seats in the place.
Synonyms
orchestra, parterre
5An instance of an engine, vehicle, aircraft, or boat stalling.
（发动机的）熄火；（车辆的）抛锚；（飞机的）失速；（轮船的）停泊
speed must be maintained to avoid a stall and loss of control
必须保持速度来防止熄火和失控。
Example sentencesExamples
- After he took it up, felt out the controls and made a couple of stalls, he shot several landings.
- Investigators had to rely on other things to figure out what caused the airplane to experience an aerodynamic stall at a critically low altitude.
- Having got through the psychological barrier of throttling back to idle, I allowed the aircraft to decelerate to the stall.
- My instructor told me to go fly it by myself out in the practice area to get the feel of the aircraft: Do some stalls, spin a few times, but have a lot of attitude.
- Failing one engine, he brought the aircraft to a stall to stop the rotation of the failed engine's prop.
- We also know that once we break the stall, the ailerons are our best roll mechanism.
- This is done to keep you from pulling back on the stick when the ‘G’ forces hit you, and cause an accidental stall on takeoff.
- The 29 working units are frequently plagued by flameouts, engine stalls, generator failures and general mechanical problems.
- If approaching a stall at racing altitude there would be no chance of recovery.
- This was especially important for students who were learning carrier landings which were carried out at slow speed and close to the stall.
- The suggestion in the NTSB's report was that the pilot got into a cross-control stall.
- Cherokee stalls have long been notable for their supremely gentle nature, sometimes, hardly a stall at all.
- He pulled up into a stall, kicked it into a left hand spin and I started to count.
- The Texan was seen to hesitate momentarily, then slide back on its tail and wing over in recovery from a hammerhead stall.
- This action recovered the aircraft from the deep stall.
- But if the stick is moved back when the airplane is very close to the stall the aircraft will not pitch up much, if at all.
- When the pilot attempted to fly in a vertical direction to create a stall, the aircraft was forced into a spin.
- If you're deep into the stall when the wing pays off, you can even drop it in a few feet without bouncing.
- Fly the airplane to the bottom of the envelope, and stalls are a non-event, a good indication of landing manners as well.
- You'll have more precise control of the plane and can use things like engine stalls to your advantage.

verbstôlstɔl

1no object (of a motor vehicle or its engine) stop running, typically because of an overload on the engine.
（尤指因引擎超负荷而导致机动车或其引擎）熄火，抛锚
her car stalled at the crossroads
她的汽车在十字路口熄火了。
Example sentencesExamples
- Because torrential rain had flooded the road, the driver and passengers stayed on-board after the engine had stalled.
- Although the car never stalled for me, I was able to duplicate the customer's complaint of trouble on steep grades.
- My car stalled twice on the way there and then someone had parked in my spot.
- At first I couldn't think why the car had simply stalled and tried to restart it several times to no avail.
- The engine stalled at the first corner we drove round, but we got it working again soon.
- At that moment, the car stalled, leaving us stuck in the middle of a waterlogged street.
- Meanwhile, a bus stalled at the Harmony shelter, forcing the driver to move the passengers to another bus.
- Yet the rattling continues and if it's not fixed, eventually something will give and the engine will stall.
- The old jeep's engine stalled briefly before coming on again at full power.
- Cars stalled in traffic cause more pollution than cars on the open road.
- Like with a manual car, if you didn't have a clutch to disconnect the wheels from the engine, when the car stops moving the engine would stall.
- But after the refuelling and tyre change was complete, the car stalled twice as Leitzinger attempted to leave the pits.
- Unfortunately, the car stalled as I went to pull out of the pit, which put us in the back of the field.
- ‘It was like I was looking at it in slow motion when all those cars were going by,’ said Lehto, who had to restart the car when the engine stalled on the spin.
- We had decided not to change the steering wheel at the first stop because it can mess up the electronics, but after the car stalled we changed it then had to wait for the system to reset.
- He looked at the dashboard and, alarmed at the galaxy of flashing lights, realized that the car had stalled.
- The school bus stalls, sending Ralph walking back to the nearest gas station.
- If you've let the fuel run down to rock bottom very often, you might find your car stalling and sputtering.
- Then the unthinkable happened: her car stalled.
- I had the clutch pedal depressed but the car slowly started to creep forward and the engine stalled.
1. 1.1 (of an aircraft or its pilot) reach a condition where the speed is too low to allow effective operation of the controls.
  Example sentencesExamples
  An investigation found that crew errors led to the aircraft stalling and crashing during the approach to the airport.
  A sudden decrease in head wind or increase in tail wind can cause an aircraft to stall.
  Huge flaps, functioning like parachutes, lifted on each wing, and the Concorde's airspeed dropped swiftly as the aircraft stalled.
  Most GA aircraft today have wings designed to stall at or near the wing root first, then progress out toward the wingtips.
  He reported that shortly after initiating the turn, the airplane appeared to stall, and rotated to the left.
  On his second operational flight in a Sopwith Pup, he stalled just after take off at Dunkirk and crashed the aircraft, breaking his leg and gashing his head.
  I was afraid that the glider would stall when I was close to the ground and spin in.
  This mechanism prevents stalling at high angles of attack, generating a greater degree of aerodynamic lift and aiding maneuverability in slow, turning flight.
  The aircraft can stall and fall and there is nothing you can do about it.
  The need to quickly stall the wing probably restricts the use of this mechanism to low-speed flight, when the wings are at a high angle of attack and more easily stalled.
  You are about ten knots above stalling as always - a stall now could be fatal.
  The planes won't have enough lift to fly at that altitude, and they'll stall and fall back to the ground.
  While still attempting to not stall or over speed, I began a turn in the general direction of the divert fields.
  In the worst-case scenario, the pilot pitches up to maintain altitude, gets too slow, stalls and spins to the ground.
  We learned to takeoff, land, spin, stall, perform precision turns, lazy eights, pylon eights and aerobatics.
  You would be flying along, at cruise, do nothing, and suddenly the glider would stall because of tail gusting.
  On standby instruments alone, he would have to avoid stalling or overspeeding the aircraft.
  I would sit back, stall, take my feet off the rudder pedals and, using the stick to keep level, losing altitude as we fluttered down to earth.
  At no speed the glider stalled and because of the left turn my left wing went down first.
  If it has an altitude-hold feature, it may cause the airplane to stall by pitching the nose up to maintain your selected altitude.
2. 1.2Sailing Have insufficient wind power in the sails to give controlled motion.
  〔航海〕（由于风力不够而）航行失控
  Example sentencesExamples
  The sail coefficient of lift increases to its maximum and we are on the point of stalling the sail.
  Rey and his crew skillfully brought the boat to a near-standstill, pointed into the wind and on the verge of stalling out.
  A sailing ship that becomes stalled with its bow to the wind is said to be ‘in irons.’
3. 1.3with object Cause (an engine, vehicle, aircraft, or boat) to stall.
  （发动机的）熄火；（车辆的）抛锚；（飞机的）失速；（轮船的）停泊
  Example sentencesExamples
  I lost a few positions when I stalled the engine during the second pit stop.
  Rice was leading 100 laps into the race when he stalled his car's engine in the pits.
  Green said the men ordered her to climb back into the vehicle but they had stalled the car and were unable to restart it.
  In flight, there was less than a ten knot difference between a speed so fast that it would rip the wings off the aircraft and a speed so slow that it would stall the engine.
  On October 30, just as the flood waters were creeping up in Ryedale, she drove her Peugeot car through a deep puddle and stalled the engine.
  When turbulence is kicked up by its rotors, it can actually stall the rotors, cause rolling sensations, even more.
  The Madrid based driver stalled the engine at the start of the second stage.
  The chaos left in his wake, stalled the boat's forward momentum and Farash grimly pulled hard on both rudders to keep the craft from turning about in midstream.
2Stop or cause to stop making progress.
（情形，过程）停止发展
no object his career had stalled, hers taken off
他的事业停滞不前，她的事业却开始起飞。
with object the government has stalled the much-needed project
政府推迟了那个急需的项目。
Example sentencesExamples
- Progress has been stalled by the dispute with the surface rights owner.
- On the first day, the assault fell three miles short of the Pierson line, while further south they had made better progress but were stalled at the Miteirya Ridge.
- Work on the Mysore-Bangalore expressway has again been stalled by a stay order from the Supreme Court.
- But that deal could be stalled by an offer from the Co-op, according to weekend reports.
- Asked what he would do if the attempt to resurrect his career stalled, he said: ‘I would be at a loss.’
- Casey is a man in a hurry, obsessed with gadgets, determined, for instance, to shop only on-line, but his progress has stalled a little this year.
- But since then progress has once again stalled with no resolution in sight.
- I won't discuss my other projects in progress that are stalled and waiting.
- But as soon as those mergers were announced, progress on any deal stalled.
- Manjula Herath, a second year player whose progress has been stalled by injury, is the left arm spinner.
- Two years ago her career stalled when she suffered a double fracture of the right ankle.
- But she is simply not in the class to challenge at this stage of a career which has stalled badly in recent seasons.
- But, as the environment slowly ebbed away as an election issue, progress stalled.
- When the two first started working together, Graham's career had stalled.
- His career stalled, Rodgers unenthusiastically enrolled at Columbia, following his brother's pre-med path.
- In several countries there is a concern that road safety progress has stalled.
- Perhaps it is unfair to pre-empt what will come out at the meeting, but at this stage progress has been stalled so many times, and for so many reasons, that people are bound to be sceptical.
- Carter's career has been stalled by two elbow surgeries, which cost him all of the 1997 and 2001 seasons.
- Coun Merry's political progress stalled after the death of his wife, Dr Feryal Raja, in 1995, but he came back strongly as deputy in 1998.
- It did not win the approval of the professors, and Gray's career as a muralist stalled before it had even started.
Synonyms
obstruct, impede, interfere with, hinder, hamper, block, interrupt, hold up, hold back, stand in the way of, frustrate, thwart, baulk, inhibit, hamstring, sabotage, encumber, restrain, slow, slow down, retard, delay, stonewall, forestall, arrest, check, stop, halt, stay, derail, restrict, limit, curb, put a brake on, bridle, fetter, shackle
1. 2.1 Speak or act in a deliberately vague way in order to gain more time to deal with a question or issue; prevaricate.
  （为争取更多的时间而）拖延；支吾，搪塞
  she was stalling for time
  她在拖延时间。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I hesitated, stalling for time, but she would have none of it.
  The husband cleared his throat, stalling for time in which to think of a polite response.
  I was stalling for time that I knew I didn't have.
  Phillip shuffled papers nervously, stalling for time.
  The government is stalling on the estuary while it tries to find a way through its foreshore and seabed dilemma.
  She was trying to find the right words to say and was stalling for time.
  You're not really looking for something you're stalling for time.
  She was stalling for time, avoiding the moment when she would tell him that it was over.
  Or is the Court simply stalling for time until a new chief justice is appointed?
  A contract was drawn up, but Billie-Jean kept stalling on exchange and settlement dates.
  ‘Quit stalling Dan and tell me’ impatience clear in her tone.
  A single car meandered down the street, an executive returning home late from work, stalling for time before he entered the house of the angry wife.
  The government is stalling on this reasonable request.
  ‘I don't know,’ I said, stalling for time as I tried to process the information she'd thrown at me in rapid-fire.
  ‘You're stalling for time,’ she said wisely, correctly deducing what I was trying to do as well as what I had done.
  I was stalling for time, not sure how to reply to this question.
  Industry critics say they are stalling for time to think up more positive ways of presenting farmed fish.
  Michael's voice rose in hesitation as he stretched his neck and scratched, stalling for time.
  He said Jasbir was being pressurised to go ahead with the marriage but had been stalling for time.
  ‘Truth,’ she decided, drawing out the word as if stalling for time.
  Synonyms
  use delaying tactics, play for time, temporize, gain time, hang back, hang fire, hold back, procrastinate, hedge, beat about the bush, drag one's feet, delay, filibuster, stonewall
2. 2.2with object Delay or divert (someone) by stalling.
  拖延；把…的注意力引开
  stall him until I've had time to take a look
  拖住他，直到我有时间来看一看。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The crowd was stalling the police, and as Roni was pulled into a back room, they heard gunfire begin.
  By the time I even thought about stalling him, it was too late.
  She had stalled the police before; she wasn't sure how much longer she could continue to stall them.
  Start making scenes in his shop and he'll stall you for months with references to far-away bureaucrats without whose say-so nothing can move.
  She is really pestering me for the information, and so far I have been able to stall her, but not for long, so a quick answer to my problem, please.
  This direct approach got the job done much faster than using the appeal channels that are designed to stall you and make you powerless.
  I was trying to stall him, until my desperate and panicked mind could think of one way out of this.
  When he winced again, she knew that he wasn't stalling her.
  So when Michel popped the question, she said the first thing that came into her head as a way of stalling him: ‘Only if the King of Tonga marries us.’
  So, while the other officers stalled him, I managed to slip in underneath the cabin and creep up from behind him.
  ‘I'm sorry to have stalled you, your highness,’ she added, addressing Cedric.
  I had left a little later than I wanted to due to the fact that my mother felt like stalling me.
  ‘And you are just trying to stall me,’ she said, shoving the jeans in my direction.
  You both know it, and that's why he's stalling you as long as he can.
  Michael rose to leave but his opponent's voice stalled him.
  The Medical staff of the local maternity hospital have been less than helpful, stalling her and not giving her a scan to see how far on the pregnancy is.
  Jessie and Paul had a quick chat in the kitchen whilst Alora stalled Lisa by talking to her in the living room.
  Coyne said he waited until the bell rang so students could change classes without seeing Mayer in the hallway, adding he ‘could understand why Mayer thought he was stalling him.’
  She laughed at the question and knew that I was trying to stall her.
  Barnabas is still trying to stall him, but Roger starts heading upstairs, telling Barnabas he is tired and Barnabas can let himself out.
  Synonyms
  delay, divert, distract
3with object Put or keep (an animal) in a stall, especially in order to fatten it.
把（牲畜）关在厩内（养肥）
Example sentencesExamples
- One more row was behind these stalls on both sides, allowing a maximum of eighty horses to be stalled in the large place.
- ‘You could see where the horses had been stalled,’ Andy recalls of that first visit to the barn.
- Stallions that are stalled tend to move about more and sometimes roll more frequently then when they are turned out.
- A horse that is stalled, as some police horses are, would have no opportunity to develop this vice.

Origin

Old English steall ‘stable or cattle shed’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stal, also to stand. Early senses of the verb included ‘reside, dwell’ and ‘bring to a halt’.

单词	stall
释义	Definition of stall in English: stall noun stɔːlstɔl 1A stand, booth, or compartment for the sale of goods in a market or large covered area. （市场等的）货摊，摊位 fruit and vegetable stalls 水果蔬菜摊。 Example sentencesExamples It was market day and the stalls stood in rows with local people in colourful ethnic clothes squeezing together in throngs, full of happiness. However, it is very difficult to eat badly in Taipei, and dozens of fine restaurants and market stalls are within an easy walk. The charity, which relies heavily on donations from tourists, has a stall at Fethiye market every Tuesday with further information and photographs of their work. Dawn's parents Doreen and Raymond Stewart have run a jewellery stall on the Monday market for 16 years and their only daughter followed them into the business. People think buying copies is a victimless crime, but the idea that they are ‘just’ being sold by a couple of guys at a market stall or car-boot sale is misleading. The ambassador was saluted on her way, and she even stopped to buy some fruits from a market stall. To compensate for the weather which dries the skin and chaps the lips, there are goodies in the form of freshly grilled kababs in the stalls around Russel Market and elsewhere. Roadsides are full of market stalls with fruit, vegetables, meat and other items. Traders at Moreton market abandoned their stalls as crowds of shoppers rushed for cover and flood water rushed down the High Street. There are a number of sweet snacks on sale at market and roadside stalls; puff-puff are a sort of doughnut and chin-chin are crispy morsels of sweetened dough. Suwarni sells friend banana to market stalls, her husband sells coconuts. He had found work in the local market filling the stall and selling vegetables. Around the central area will be a selection of market stalls, lawn areas, sports activity zones and play areas. Tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stones will be on view at rickety little tables and stalls in the market, and in most cases the stones are genuine. One of the culinary favourites here is asparagus and some of the stalls in the vegetable market were piled high with this succulent delicacy. But even now the stores include counters based on market stalls, selling fruit, bread and more Morrison-made pies and sausages. You'd expect to see a lot of market stalls, but there weren't many this year, and the street vendors were mainly selling food. Allen Booth has run his fish stall on the town market for nearly 50 years. In fact, you don't even have to leave Bangkok to be entertained and amazed by the variety of restaurants, food stalls and markets on display. An article in another paper wrote about the sale of fireworks from a stall in a flea market in Port of Spain. Synonyms stand, table, counter, booth, kiosk, compartment 2An individual compartment for an animal in a stable or cowshed, enclosed on three sides. 牲畜棚里的隔间，隔栏 Example sentencesExamples Circulating or urinary cortisol concentrations were similar when sows were housed in stalls or groups with three to six pigs per pen. Because of individual horse stalls, manual cleaning with a fork or shovel and wheelbarrow, tractor loader, or trailer is common. Sighing, the girl entered the stables and walked down the rows of stalls, greeting each individual horse by name. From inside I could hear the animals shifting in their stalls, ready to be set free for the day. The 18 free stalls used were divided into six sets, excluding both stalls at each end of the row. Bales of hay were piled everywhere, and relatively crude stalls housed various farming animals, from horses to pigs. The animals were confined to drylot paddocks and fed the assigned concentrate in individual feeding stalls. Sows housed in pens and stalls had similar mean values across all measures with each analysis that was used. Inside the milking parlor, Lifeline milker Clint Weidkamp coaxes a new heifer into the first of four stalls. After the barn was raised, I built a cowshed and horse stall on the east side. I grinned at him, took Viento's reins, and led him out of his stall, across the stables. In contrast to moving from outdoors to neck tethers, moving from outdoors to indoor gestation pens or stalls did not inhibit litter size. There must have been at least forty stalls in the huge stable, and the loft above had rolled stacks of hay. Once clinically stable, each animal was returned to its stall. This configuration recalls the form of traditional livestock barns with a center walkway and animal stalls to each side. Farrowing rate for sows in individual stalls was equal to or superior to sows in other systems. Cate put Midnight back in his stall in the stable, then slipped back into the manor, concealing her riding clothing in the back of her wardrobe. The use of specialized animal stalls and tethers is accepted as a science-based industry standard of management. A copper and an odd crimson brown stallion occupied two stalls on the far end, and three mares were stabled a few stalls down from Asa and across the row. There stood eight stalls in the stable, six of which contained animals. Synonyms pen, coop, sty, corral, enclosure, compartment, cubicle 2.1 A stable or cowshed. 马厩；牛棚 Example sentencesExamples Stocks Market, on the site of the Mansion House, had been in existence for some centuries but was increasingly challenged by Covent Garden, started as a few sheds and stalls. 2.2North American A marked-out parking space for a vehicle. 〈北美〉（机动车停车场的）车位 a parking stall Example sentencesExamples Lot 50B contains 222 stalls currently and is designated for reserve staff parking. Redevelopment has since reduced it to 443 parking stalls. The local McDonald's reserves parking stalls for horse-drawn buggies. The current parking ratio of 0.26 stalls per faculty/staff/student is above the national average of 0.23. The new Sonic has 30 parking stalls and six walk-up stations as well as drive-thru service. Identify the free stall users with parking passes and after a year the city can decide based on use whether to add or reduce the number of free stalls, she said. Sheldon, however, had made it back and noticed Caleb's black BMW still in its parking stall. Traffic orders ban parking on the setts on market days until 6.45 pm - but the regulations are widely ignored with drivers parking up as soon as a stall is cleared. 2.3 A cage-like compartment in which a horse is held immediately prior to the start of a race. （赛马开始前各马站位的）单间马房 Example sentencesExamples New York Racing Association assistant starter Fred Lewis pulled a colleague from underneath a thrashing horse who had flipped in a starting stall at Saratoga Race Course. A central computer then allocates a saddle cloth number to each horse and determines the stall from which it will start. Pacemaker Starbourne raced well clear from the stalls with Frankie Dettori's Kazzia pulling along the chasing pack. The horse was reluctant to enter the stalls but came through with a storming late run to edge out Touch of the Blues by three-quarters of a length with Century City third. The start had seen some unscheduled drama as Guest Connections was pulled out of the race after rearing up in the stalls - leaving jockey Tony Culhane on the ground. You have got to keep your horse relaxed so you go into the stalls as quietly as possible. Unlike National Hunt, all Flat races start from stalls. The well-fancied Diaghilev loses his chance at the very beginning of the race when he dallies in the stalls. The horses charge out of the stalls although Wintertide is caught napping and immediately drops a few lengths. There is drama before the race as Red Power rears up and throws off Johnny Murtagh in front of the stalls - the horse is withdrawn from the race. 2.4 A compartment for one person in a set of toilets, shower cubicles, etc. （浴室、卫生间等的）小分隔间 Example sentencesExamples They have no football locker room, sharing showers and stalls with their other sports teams. Wrapping a towel around herself, she stepped out of the shower stall and walked into the warm room, searching for the shirt Kyle had given her. Some even claim that the toilet stalls, with leather walls and designer lights, are the nicest toilets in Sofia. Stepping into the last bathroom stall, I lock the door behind me. You see, our apartment only has a shower stall with no tub. There was even an attached bathroom with sinks, toilets and shower stalls. Taking off her clothes and stepping into the shower stall, she pulled the curtain across and turned on the hot water. Pushing the door open with his elbow, he entered a small, well-kept lavatory with a white painted stall in one corner and two sinks on the other wall. There were four sinks to the left, and four toilets with stalls near the showers. She took a quick shower in one of the moldy shower stalls, and put on her other clothes. Another door revealed a bathroom with only a shower stall, sink and a toilet. Dry towels hung from a plastic rack on the linoleum wall across from the shower stalls. Remember bathtubs and shower stalls may require support framing. After brushing my teeth, I stepped into the shower stall and ran the tap. Twenty minutes later, I had checked every stall in the aforementioned bathroom and every other bathroom in the building. For optimum household cleanliness and health, clean and disinfect your shower stalls and glass shower doors at least once a week. I saw the manager cleaning the men's bathroom, including picking up discarded toilet paper off the floor of a toilet stall. I went to the shower stall and turned the knob to hot, and pulled it out, waiting for the water to come flowing through it. For example, you test the water temperature with your hand before stepping into the shower stall. And always wear a pair of plastic flip-flops to prevent picking up common bacteria found in the shower stalls. 3A fixed seat in the choir or chancel of a church, enclosed at the back and sides and often canopied, typically reserved for a particular member of the clergy. （教堂唱诗班席位或高坛上的）牧师专座（座位后面和侧面多少会有些围栏，顶上常有罩盖） Example sentencesExamples Above the church stalls to the left of the altar, however, hangs a small painting that is deceptively unassuming. The choir stalls were moved from the chancel to their present position in the nave in 1961 to make room for the bishop's throne and canon's stalls. There were so many choir wannabes that they filled the choir platform, the stalls and the circle seats - and outnumbered the audience confined to the upper galleries. It was in her clumsiness that when she moved to turn around after the hymn she knocked her music folder expertly over the edge of the pew stall and onto the marble floor out of her reach. Yesterday's ceremony was the formal installation of the king, who was appointed to a stall - or seat - in St George's Chapel, home of the order. When James Bell, the recently consecrated Bishop of Knaresborough was an honorary Canon of Ripon Cathedral he occupied the stall of St Hilda. 4stallsBritish The seats on the ground floor in a theatre. 〈英〉（剧院，电影院）堂座 as modifier a stalls seat Example sentencesExamples As it happens, there was a ticket mix-up and during the break we were moved from circle seats down to the stalls. One evening she had sat in the Tsar's Box, not in the regular management seats in the stalls. Some feel that 20 for a seat in the stalls is a bit steep. Seated halfway back in the stalls, I thought the harpsichord sounded distractingly amplified. He then left the row behind us and returned to his seat somewhere towards the back of the stalls. Outside, the touts are charging £90 for a seat in the stalls, with no shortage of takers. I remember crying in the back stalls when Storm Boy lost gallant Mr Percival. From the moment Walter van Dyk started from the back of the stalls to sing the opening of The Threepenny Opera, I felt a frisson which lasted to the end of the evening. It is a measure of this play's success that the call resounds; the wooden courtroom roof arches high above the stalls, and up into the shadows of the audience. For performances on December 21 to 24, the stalls and dress circle are almost sold out, but grand circle seats are available. All the world may well be a stage, but you still expect to find newspaper theatre critics in the stalls rather than treading the boards. The action is seen as it would be from a good seat in the theatre stalls. A new grid above the front stalls allows objects to be flown over the first three rows. In my own case, I usually purchase seats in the stalls for six adults and five children costing in the region of £100. I was being taken to the stalls and given one of the best seats in the place. Synonyms North American orchestra, parterre 5An instance of an engine, vehicle, aircraft, or boat stalling. （发动机的）熄火；（车辆的）抛锚；（飞机的）失速；（轮船的）停泊 speed must be maintained to avoid a stall and loss of control 必须保持速度来防止熄火和失控。 Example sentencesExamples This was especially important for students who were learning carrier landings which were carried out at slow speed and close to the stall. Having got through the psychological barrier of throttling back to idle, I allowed the aircraft to decelerate to the stall. This is done to keep you from pulling back on the stick when the ‘G’ forces hit you, and cause an accidental stall on takeoff. This action recovered the aircraft from the deep stall. The Texan was seen to hesitate momentarily, then slide back on its tail and wing over in recovery from a hammerhead stall. We also know that once we break the stall, the ailerons are our best roll mechanism. But if the stick is moved back when the airplane is very close to the stall the aircraft will not pitch up much, if at all. If you're deep into the stall when the wing pays off, you can even drop it in a few feet without bouncing. My instructor told me to go fly it by myself out in the practice area to get the feel of the aircraft: Do some stalls, spin a few times, but have a lot of attitude. You'll have more precise control of the plane and can use things like engine stalls to your advantage. The suggestion in the NTSB's report was that the pilot got into a cross-control stall. Failing one engine, he brought the aircraft to a stall to stop the rotation of the failed engine's prop. The 29 working units are frequently plagued by flameouts, engine stalls, generator failures and general mechanical problems. If approaching a stall at racing altitude there would be no chance of recovery. When the pilot attempted to fly in a vertical direction to create a stall, the aircraft was forced into a spin. Fly the airplane to the bottom of the envelope, and stalls are a non-event, a good indication of landing manners as well. Investigators had to rely on other things to figure out what caused the airplane to experience an aerodynamic stall at a critically low altitude. Cherokee stalls have long been notable for their supremely gentle nature, sometimes, hardly a stall at all. He pulled up into a stall, kicked it into a left hand spin and I started to count. After he took it up, felt out the controls and made a couple of stalls, he shot several landings. verb stɔːlstɔl 1no object (of a motor vehicle or its engine) stop running, typically because of an overload on the engine. （尤指因引擎超负荷而导致机动车或其引擎）熄火，抛锚 her car stalled at the crossroads 她的汽车在十字路口熄火了。 Example sentencesExamples My car stalled twice on the way there and then someone had parked in my spot. He looked at the dashboard and, alarmed at the galaxy of flashing lights, realized that the car had stalled. The school bus stalls, sending Ralph walking back to the nearest gas station. At that moment, the car stalled, leaving us stuck in the middle of a waterlogged street. Then the unthinkable happened: her car stalled. Meanwhile, a bus stalled at the Harmony shelter, forcing the driver to move the passengers to another bus. If you've let the fuel run down to rock bottom very often, you might find your car stalling and sputtering. Although the car never stalled for me, I was able to duplicate the customer's complaint of trouble on steep grades. Cars stalled in traffic cause more pollution than cars on the open road. The engine stalled at the first corner we drove round, but we got it working again soon. But after the refuelling and tyre change was complete, the car stalled twice as Leitzinger attempted to leave the pits. Unfortunately, the car stalled as I went to pull out of the pit, which put us in the back of the field. We had decided not to change the steering wheel at the first stop because it can mess up the electronics, but after the car stalled we changed it then had to wait for the system to reset. At first I couldn't think why the car had simply stalled and tried to restart it several times to no avail. I had the clutch pedal depressed but the car slowly started to creep forward and the engine stalled. Because torrential rain had flooded the road, the driver and passengers stayed on-board after the engine had stalled. Yet the rattling continues and if it's not fixed, eventually something will give and the engine will stall. ‘It was like I was looking at it in slow motion when all those cars were going by,’ said Lehto, who had to restart the car when the engine stalled on the spin. Like with a manual car, if you didn't have a clutch to disconnect the wheels from the engine, when the car stops moving the engine would stall. The old jeep's engine stalled briefly before coming on again at full power. 1.1 (of an aircraft) stop flying and begin to fall because the speed is too low or the angle of attack too large to maintain adequate lift. （飞机或其飞行员航速过低或攻角过大不能保持升力时）失速 Example sentencesExamples In the worst-case scenario, the pilot pitches up to maintain altitude, gets too slow, stalls and spins to the ground. Most GA aircraft today have wings designed to stall at or near the wing root first, then progress out toward the wingtips. This mechanism prevents stalling at high angles of attack, generating a greater degree of aerodynamic lift and aiding maneuverability in slow, turning flight. The aircraft can stall and fall and there is nothing you can do about it. You would be flying along, at cruise, do nothing, and suddenly the glider would stall because of tail gusting. A sudden decrease in head wind or increase in tail wind can cause an aircraft to stall. I would sit back, stall, take my feet off the rudder pedals and, using the stick to keep level, losing altitude as we fluttered down to earth. While still attempting to not stall or over speed, I began a turn in the general direction of the divert fields. An investigation found that crew errors led to the aircraft stalling and crashing during the approach to the airport. I was afraid that the glider would stall when I was close to the ground and spin in. He reported that shortly after initiating the turn, the airplane appeared to stall, and rotated to the left. Huge flaps, functioning like parachutes, lifted on each wing, and the Concorde's airspeed dropped swiftly as the aircraft stalled. On his second operational flight in a Sopwith Pup, he stalled just after take off at Dunkirk and crashed the aircraft, breaking his leg and gashing his head. If it has an altitude-hold feature, it may cause the airplane to stall by pitching the nose up to maintain your selected altitude. The planes won't have enough lift to fly at that altitude, and they'll stall and fall back to the ground. You are about ten knots above stalling as always - a stall now could be fatal. We learned to takeoff, land, spin, stall, perform precision turns, lazy eights, pylon eights and aerobatics. The need to quickly stall the wing probably restricts the use of this mechanism to low-speed flight, when the wings are at a high angle of attack and more easily stalled. At no speed the glider stalled and because of the left turn my left wing went down first. On standby instruments alone, he would have to avoid stalling or overspeeding the aircraft. 1.2Sailing Have insufficient wind power in the sails to give controlled motion. 〔航海〕（由于风力不够而）航行失控 Example sentencesExamples A sailing ship that becomes stalled with its bow to the wind is said to be ‘in irons.’ Rey and his crew skillfully brought the boat to a near-standstill, pointed into the wind and on the verge of stalling out. The sail coefficient of lift increases to its maximum and we are on the point of stalling the sail. 1.3with object Cause to stall. Example sentencesExamples Green said the men ordered her to climb back into the vehicle but they had stalled the car and were unable to restart it. When turbulence is kicked up by its rotors, it can actually stall the rotors, cause rolling sensations, even more. I lost a few positions when I stalled the engine during the second pit stop. Rice was leading 100 laps into the race when he stalled his car's engine in the pits. The chaos left in his wake, stalled the boat's forward momentum and Farash grimly pulled hard on both rudders to keep the craft from turning about in midstream. In flight, there was less than a ten knot difference between a speed so fast that it would rip the wings off the aircraft and a speed so slow that it would stall the engine. The Madrid based driver stalled the engine at the start of the second stage. On October 30, just as the flood waters were creeping up in Ryedale, she drove her Peugeot car through a deep puddle and stalled the engine. 2Stop or cause to stop making progress. （情形，过程）停止发展 no object his career had stalled, hers taken off 他的事业停滞不前，她的事业却开始起飞。 with object the government has stalled the much-needed project 政府推迟了那个急需的项目。 Example sentencesExamples Casey is a man in a hurry, obsessed with gadgets, determined, for instance, to shop only on-line, but his progress has stalled a little this year. Progress has been stalled by the dispute with the surface rights owner. Two years ago her career stalled when she suffered a double fracture of the right ankle. When the two first started working together, Graham's career had stalled. Asked what he would do if the attempt to resurrect his career stalled, he said: ‘I would be at a loss.’ Carter's career has been stalled by two elbow surgeries, which cost him all of the 1997 and 2001 seasons. But that deal could be stalled by an offer from the Co-op, according to weekend reports. Manjula Herath, a second year player whose progress has been stalled by injury, is the left arm spinner. It did not win the approval of the professors, and Gray's career as a muralist stalled before it had even started. Perhaps it is unfair to pre-empt what will come out at the meeting, but at this stage progress has been stalled so many times, and for so many reasons, that people are bound to be sceptical. Coun Merry's political progress stalled after the death of his wife, Dr Feryal Raja, in 1995, but he came back strongly as deputy in 1998. But she is simply not in the class to challenge at this stage of a career which has stalled badly in recent seasons. But, as the environment slowly ebbed away as an election issue, progress stalled. In several countries there is a concern that road safety progress has stalled. I won't discuss my other projects in progress that are stalled and waiting. But as soon as those mergers were announced, progress on any deal stalled. On the first day, the assault fell three miles short of the Pierson line, while further south they had made better progress but were stalled at the Miteirya Ridge. But since then progress has once again stalled with no resolution in sight. Work on the Mysore-Bangalore expressway has again been stalled by a stay order from the Supreme Court. His career stalled, Rodgers unenthusiastically enrolled at Columbia, following his brother's pre-med path. Synonyms obstruct, impede, interfere with, hinder, hamper, block, interrupt, hold up, hold back, stand in the way of, frustrate, thwart, baulk, inhibit, hamstring, sabotage, encumber, restrain, slow, slow down, retard, delay, stonewall, forestall, arrest, check, stop, halt, stay, derail, restrict, limit, curb, put a brake on, bridle, fetter, shackle informal stymie North American informal bork rare trammel 2.1no object Speak or act in a deliberately vague way in order to gain more time to deal with something; prevaricate. （为争取更多的时间而）拖延；支吾，搪塞 she was stalling for time 她在拖延时间。 Example sentencesExamples ‘Truth,’ she decided, drawing out the word as if stalling for time. Michael's voice rose in hesitation as he stretched his neck and scratched, stalling for time. He said Jasbir was being pressurised to go ahead with the marriage but had been stalling for time. I hesitated, stalling for time, but she would have none of it. Phillip shuffled papers nervously, stalling for time. ‘Quit stalling Dan and tell me’ impatience clear in her tone. She was stalling for time, avoiding the moment when she would tell him that it was over. The husband cleared his throat, stalling for time in which to think of a polite response. I was stalling for time that I knew I didn't have. A contract was drawn up, but Billie-Jean kept stalling on exchange and settlement dates. A single car meandered down the street, an executive returning home late from work, stalling for time before he entered the house of the angry wife. You're not really looking for something you're stalling for time. ‘You're stalling for time,’ she said wisely, correctly deducing what I was trying to do as well as what I had done. The government is stalling on the estuary while it tries to find a way through its foreshore and seabed dilemma. Industry critics say they are stalling for time to think up more positive ways of presenting farmed fish. I was stalling for time, not sure how to reply to this question. ‘I don't know,’ I said, stalling for time as I tried to process the information she'd thrown at me in rapid-fire. Or is the Court simply stalling for time until a new chief justice is appointed? The government is stalling on this reasonable request. She was trying to find the right words to say and was stalling for time. Synonyms use delaying tactics, play for time, temporize, gain time, hang back, hang fire, hold back, procrastinate, hedge, beat about the bush, drag one's feet, delay, filibuster, stonewall US informal kick the can down the road 2.2with object Delay or divert (someone) by prevarication. 拖延；把…的注意力引开 stall him until I've had time to take a look 拖住他，直到我有时间来看一看。 Example sentencesExamples So, while the other officers stalled him, I managed to slip in underneath the cabin and creep up from behind him. When he winced again, she knew that he wasn't stalling her. So when Michel popped the question, she said the first thing that came into her head as a way of stalling him: ‘Only if the King of Tonga marries us.’ Coyne said he waited until the bell rang so students could change classes without seeing Mayer in the hallway, adding he ‘could understand why Mayer thought he was stalling him.’ ‘I'm sorry to have stalled you, your highness,’ she added, addressing Cedric. She laughed at the question and knew that I was trying to stall her. The crowd was stalling the police, and as Roni was pulled into a back room, they heard gunfire begin. Jessie and Paul had a quick chat in the kitchen whilst Alora stalled Lisa by talking to her in the living room. ‘And you are just trying to stall me,’ she said, shoving the jeans in my direction. She is really pestering me for the information, and so far I have been able to stall her, but not for long, so a quick answer to my problem, please. By the time I even thought about stalling him, it was too late. I was trying to stall him, until my desperate and panicked mind could think of one way out of this. She had stalled the police before; she wasn't sure how much longer she could continue to stall them. You both know it, and that's why he's stalling you as long as he can. Start making scenes in his shop and he'll stall you for months with references to far-away bureaucrats without whose say-so nothing can move. Barnabas is still trying to stall him, but Roger starts heading upstairs, telling Barnabas he is tired and Barnabas can let himself out. The Medical staff of the local maternity hospital have been less than helpful, stalling her and not giving her a scan to see how far on the pregnancy is. Michael rose to leave but his opponent's voice stalled him. This direct approach got the job done much faster than using the appeal channels that are designed to stall you and make you powerless. I had left a little later than I wanted to due to the fact that my mother felt like stalling me. Synonyms delay, divert, distract hold off, stave off, fend off, keep off, ward off, keep at bay, keep at arm's length 3with object Put or keep (an animal) in a stall, especially in order to fatten it. 把（牲畜）关在厩内（养肥） the horses were stalled at Upper Bolney Farm Example sentencesExamples A horse that is stalled, as some police horses are, would have no opportunity to develop this vice. Stallions that are stalled tend to move about more and sometimes roll more frequently then when they are turned out. One more row was behind these stalls on both sides, allowing a maximum of eighty horses to be stalled in the large place. ‘You could see where the horses had been stalled,’ Andy recalls of that first visit to the barn. Phrases set out one's stall Display or assert one's abilities or position. he has set out his stall as a strong supporter of free trade Example sentencesExamples Activists in the Campaign for Yorkshire set out their stall in York city centre to speak to shoppers and gather support. Both sides set out their stall from the opening whistle, setting a frenetic pace, which they somehow managed to maintain right to the end. ‘He will essentially be setting out his stall in a much more detailed way than he has been able to do so far,’ one aide said. I would face off with anybody, I never back down once I have set out my stall, but this is back-breaking. There was a degree of scepticism when we set out our stall in September that we would manage to deliver the deal to shareholders before Christmas, so it is gratifying. ‘We came here to set out our stall and win the game,’ said Leishman in one of his less poetic utterings. Thomas Keneally sets out his stall in a covering letter that arrives with the review copy of his latest work of fiction. Anyone setting out his stall specifically for a big marlin, tuna, or shark, would be very unfortunate indeed not to achieve something of boasting size. ‘We have sharpened our prices and set out our stall to sell quality merchandise,’ he added. The conductor sets out his stall with a deliberately paced opening. Origin Old English steall 'stable or cattle shed', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stal, also to stand. Early senses of the verb included 'reside, dwell' and 'bring to a halt'. Rhymes all, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, forestall, gall, Galle, Gaul, hall, haul, maul, miaul, miscall, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, pall, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stonewall, tall, thrall, trawl, wall, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl noun.1 phr. Definition of stall in US English: stall nounstôlstɔl 1A stand, booth, or compartment for the sale of goods in a market or large covered area. （市场等的）货摊，摊位 fruit and vegetable stalls 水果蔬菜摊。 Example sentencesExamples He had found work in the local market filling the stall and selling vegetables. The ambassador was saluted on her way, and she even stopped to buy some fruits from a market stall. Roadsides are full of market stalls with fruit, vegetables, meat and other items. There are a number of sweet snacks on sale at market and roadside stalls; puff-puff are a sort of doughnut and chin-chin are crispy morsels of sweetened dough. Around the central area will be a selection of market stalls, lawn areas, sports activity zones and play areas. To compensate for the weather which dries the skin and chaps the lips, there are goodies in the form of freshly grilled kababs in the stalls around Russel Market and elsewhere. An article in another paper wrote about the sale of fireworks from a stall in a flea market in Port of Spain. But even now the stores include counters based on market stalls, selling fruit, bread and more Morrison-made pies and sausages. One of the culinary favourites here is asparagus and some of the stalls in the vegetable market were piled high with this succulent delicacy. You'd expect to see a lot of market stalls, but there weren't many this year, and the street vendors were mainly selling food. Allen Booth has run his fish stall on the town market for nearly 50 years. It was market day and the stalls stood in rows with local people in colourful ethnic clothes squeezing together in throngs, full of happiness. In fact, you don't even have to leave Bangkok to be entertained and amazed by the variety of restaurants, food stalls and markets on display. People think buying copies is a victimless crime, but the idea that they are ‘just’ being sold by a couple of guys at a market stall or car-boot sale is misleading. However, it is very difficult to eat badly in Taipei, and dozens of fine restaurants and market stalls are within an easy walk. Suwarni sells friend banana to market stalls, her husband sells coconuts. The charity, which relies heavily on donations from tourists, has a stall at Fethiye market every Tuesday with further information and photographs of their work. Traders at Moreton market abandoned their stalls as crowds of shoppers rushed for cover and flood water rushed down the High Street. Dawn's parents Doreen and Raymond Stewart have run a jewellery stall on the Monday market for 16 years and their only daughter followed them into the business. Tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stones will be on view at rickety little tables and stalls in the market, and in most cases the stones are genuine. Synonyms stand, table, counter, booth, kiosk, compartment 2An individual compartment for an animal in a stable or barn, enclosed on three sides. 牲畜棚里的隔间，隔栏 Example sentencesExamples Sighing, the girl entered the stables and walked down the rows of stalls, greeting each individual horse by name. Farrowing rate for sows in individual stalls was equal to or superior to sows in other systems. There stood eight stalls in the stable, six of which contained animals. The animals were confined to drylot paddocks and fed the assigned concentrate in individual feeding stalls. A copper and an odd crimson brown stallion occupied two stalls on the far end, and three mares were stabled a few stalls down from Asa and across the row. This configuration recalls the form of traditional livestock barns with a center walkway and animal stalls to each side. From inside I could hear the animals shifting in their stalls, ready to be set free for the day. The use of specialized animal stalls and tethers is accepted as a science-based industry standard of management. Once clinically stable, each animal was returned to its stall. Inside the milking parlor, Lifeline milker Clint Weidkamp coaxes a new heifer into the first of four stalls. Cate put Midnight back in his stall in the stable, then slipped back into the manor, concealing her riding clothing in the back of her wardrobe. Because of individual horse stalls, manual cleaning with a fork or shovel and wheelbarrow, tractor loader, or trailer is common. There must have been at least forty stalls in the huge stable, and the loft above had rolled stacks of hay. Bales of hay were piled everywhere, and relatively crude stalls housed various farming animals, from horses to pigs. Circulating or urinary cortisol concentrations were similar when sows were housed in stalls or groups with three to six pigs per pen. I grinned at him, took Viento's reins, and led him out of his stall, across the stables. In contrast to moving from outdoors to neck tethers, moving from outdoors to indoor gestation pens or stalls did not inhibit litter size. The 18 free stalls used were divided into six sets, excluding both stalls at each end of the row. After the barn was raised, I built a cowshed and horse stall on the east side. Sows housed in pens and stalls had similar mean values across all measures with each analysis that was used. Synonyms pen, coop, sty, corral, enclosure, compartment, cubicle 2.1 A stable. Example sentencesExamples Stocks Market, on the site of the Mansion House, had been in existence for some centuries but was increasingly challenged by Covent Garden, started as a few sheds and stalls. 2.2North American A marked-out parking space for a vehicle. 〈北美〉（机动车停车场的）车位 Example sentencesExamples The current parking ratio of 0.26 stalls per faculty/staff/student is above the national average of 0.23. Identify the free stall users with parking passes and after a year the city can decide based on use whether to add or reduce the number of free stalls, she said. Lot 50B contains 222 stalls currently and is designated for reserve staff parking. Sheldon, however, had made it back and noticed Caleb's black BMW still in its parking stall. The local McDonald's reserves parking stalls for horse-drawn buggies. Traffic orders ban parking on the setts on market days until 6.45 pm - but the regulations are widely ignored with drivers parking up as soon as a stall is cleared. Redevelopment has since reduced it to 443 parking stalls. The new Sonic has 30 parking stalls and six walk-up stations as well as drive-thru service. 2.3 A compartment for one person in a shower room, restroom, or similar facility. （浴室、卫生间等的）小分隔间 Example sentencesExamples And always wear a pair of plastic flip-flops to prevent picking up common bacteria found in the shower stalls. I went to the shower stall and turned the knob to hot, and pulled it out, waiting for the water to come flowing through it. Wrapping a towel around herself, she stepped out of the shower stall and walked into the warm room, searching for the shirt Kyle had given her. Dry towels hung from a plastic rack on the linoleum wall across from the shower stalls. Remember bathtubs and shower stalls may require support framing. After brushing my teeth, I stepped into the shower stall and ran the tap. For optimum household cleanliness and health, clean and disinfect your shower stalls and glass shower doors at least once a week. She took a quick shower in one of the moldy shower stalls, and put on her other clothes. They have no football locker room, sharing showers and stalls with their other sports teams. Taking off her clothes and stepping into the shower stall, she pulled the curtain across and turned on the hot water. You see, our apartment only has a shower stall with no tub. For example, you test the water temperature with your hand before stepping into the shower stall. There were four sinks to the left, and four toilets with stalls near the showers. Pushing the door open with his elbow, he entered a small, well-kept lavatory with a white painted stall in one corner and two sinks on the other wall. Stepping into the last bathroom stall, I lock the door behind me. Twenty minutes later, I had checked every stall in the aforementioned bathroom and every other bathroom in the building. There was even an attached bathroom with sinks, toilets and shower stalls. Another door revealed a bathroom with only a shower stall, sink and a toilet. Some even claim that the toilet stalls, with leather walls and designer lights, are the nicest toilets in Sofia. I saw the manager cleaning the men's bathroom, including picking up discarded toilet paper off the floor of a toilet stall. 3A fixed seat in the choir or chancel of a church, more or less enclosed at the back and sides and often canopied, typically reserved for a particular member of the clergy. （教堂唱诗班席位或高坛上的）牧师专座（座位后面和侧面多少会有些围栏，顶上常有罩盖） Example sentencesExamples There were so many choir wannabes that they filled the choir platform, the stalls and the circle seats - and outnumbered the audience confined to the upper galleries. It was in her clumsiness that when she moved to turn around after the hymn she knocked her music folder expertly over the edge of the pew stall and onto the marble floor out of her reach. The choir stalls were moved from the chancel to their present position in the nave in 1961 to make room for the bishop's throne and canon's stalls. When James Bell, the recently consecrated Bishop of Knaresborough was an honorary Canon of Ripon Cathedral he occupied the stall of St Hilda. Yesterday's ceremony was the formal installation of the king, who was appointed to a stall - or seat - in St George's Chapel, home of the order. Above the church stalls to the left of the altar, however, hangs a small painting that is deceptively unassuming. 4stallsBritish The seats on the ground floor in a theater. 〈英〉（剧院，电影院）堂座 Example sentencesExamples It is a measure of this play's success that the call resounds; the wooden courtroom roof arches high above the stalls, and up into the shadows of the audience. The action is seen as it would be from a good seat in the theatre stalls. As it happens, there was a ticket mix-up and during the break we were moved from circle seats down to the stalls. One evening she had sat in the Tsar's Box, not in the regular management seats in the stalls. Seated halfway back in the stalls, I thought the harpsichord sounded distractingly amplified. In my own case, I usually purchase seats in the stalls for six adults and five children costing in the region of £100. Some feel that 20 for a seat in the stalls is a bit steep. From the moment Walter van Dyk started from the back of the stalls to sing the opening of The Threepenny Opera, I felt a frisson which lasted to the end of the evening. He then left the row behind us and returned to his seat somewhere towards the back of the stalls. I remember crying in the back stalls when Storm Boy lost gallant Mr Percival. A new grid above the front stalls allows objects to be flown over the first three rows. Outside, the touts are charging £90 for a seat in the stalls, with no shortage of takers. For performances on December 21 to 24, the stalls and dress circle are almost sold out, but grand circle seats are available. All the world may well be a stage, but you still expect to find newspaper theatre critics in the stalls rather than treading the boards. I was being taken to the stalls and given one of the best seats in the place. Synonyms orchestra, parterre 5An instance of an engine, vehicle, aircraft, or boat stalling. （发动机的）熄火；（车辆的）抛锚；（飞机的）失速；（轮船的）停泊 speed must be maintained to avoid a stall and loss of control 必须保持速度来防止熄火和失控。 Example sentencesExamples After he took it up, felt out the controls and made a couple of stalls, he shot several landings. Investigators had to rely on other things to figure out what caused the airplane to experience an aerodynamic stall at a critically low altitude. Having got through the psychological barrier of throttling back to idle, I allowed the aircraft to decelerate to the stall. My instructor told me to go fly it by myself out in the practice area to get the feel of the aircraft: Do some stalls, spin a few times, but have a lot of attitude. Failing one engine, he brought the aircraft to a stall to stop the rotation of the failed engine's prop. We also know that once we break the stall, the ailerons are our best roll mechanism. This is done to keep you from pulling back on the stick when the ‘G’ forces hit you, and cause an accidental stall on takeoff. The 29 working units are frequently plagued by flameouts, engine stalls, generator failures and general mechanical problems. If approaching a stall at racing altitude there would be no chance of recovery. This was especially important for students who were learning carrier landings which were carried out at slow speed and close to the stall. The suggestion in the NTSB's report was that the pilot got into a cross-control stall. Cherokee stalls have long been notable for their supremely gentle nature, sometimes, hardly a stall at all. He pulled up into a stall, kicked it into a left hand spin and I started to count. The Texan was seen to hesitate momentarily, then slide back on its tail and wing over in recovery from a hammerhead stall. This action recovered the aircraft from the deep stall. But if the stick is moved back when the airplane is very close to the stall the aircraft will not pitch up much, if at all. When the pilot attempted to fly in a vertical direction to create a stall, the aircraft was forced into a spin. If you're deep into the stall when the wing pays off, you can even drop it in a few feet without bouncing. Fly the airplane to the bottom of the envelope, and stalls are a non-event, a good indication of landing manners as well. You'll have more precise control of the plane and can use things like engine stalls to your advantage. verbstôlstɔl 1no object (of a motor vehicle or its engine) stop running, typically because of an overload on the engine. （尤指因引擎超负荷而导致机动车或其引擎）熄火，抛锚 her car stalled at the crossroads 她的汽车在十字路口熄火了。 Example sentencesExamples Because torrential rain had flooded the road, the driver and passengers stayed on-board after the engine had stalled. Although the car never stalled for me, I was able to duplicate the customer's complaint of trouble on steep grades. My car stalled twice on the way there and then someone had parked in my spot. At first I couldn't think why the car had simply stalled and tried to restart it several times to no avail. The engine stalled at the first corner we drove round, but we got it working again soon. At that moment, the car stalled, leaving us stuck in the middle of a waterlogged street. Meanwhile, a bus stalled at the Harmony shelter, forcing the driver to move the passengers to another bus. Yet the rattling continues and if it's not fixed, eventually something will give and the engine will stall. The old jeep's engine stalled briefly before coming on again at full power. Cars stalled in traffic cause more pollution than cars on the open road. Like with a manual car, if you didn't have a clutch to disconnect the wheels from the engine, when the car stops moving the engine would stall. But after the refuelling and tyre change was complete, the car stalled twice as Leitzinger attempted to leave the pits. Unfortunately, the car stalled as I went to pull out of the pit, which put us in the back of the field. ‘It was like I was looking at it in slow motion when all those cars were going by,’ said Lehto, who had to restart the car when the engine stalled on the spin. We had decided not to change the steering wheel at the first stop because it can mess up the electronics, but after the car stalled we changed it then had to wait for the system to reset. He looked at the dashboard and, alarmed at the galaxy of flashing lights, realized that the car had stalled. The school bus stalls, sending Ralph walking back to the nearest gas station. If you've let the fuel run down to rock bottom very often, you might find your car stalling and sputtering. Then the unthinkable happened: her car stalled. I had the clutch pedal depressed but the car slowly started to creep forward and the engine stalled. 1.1 (of an aircraft or its pilot) reach a condition where the speed is too low to allow effective operation of the controls. Example sentencesExamples An investigation found that crew errors led to the aircraft stalling and crashing during the approach to the airport. A sudden decrease in head wind or increase in tail wind can cause an aircraft to stall. Huge flaps, functioning like parachutes, lifted on each wing, and the Concorde's airspeed dropped swiftly as the aircraft stalled. Most GA aircraft today have wings designed to stall at or near the wing root first, then progress out toward the wingtips. He reported that shortly after initiating the turn, the airplane appeared to stall, and rotated to the left. On his second operational flight in a Sopwith Pup, he stalled just after take off at Dunkirk and crashed the aircraft, breaking his leg and gashing his head. I was afraid that the glider would stall when I was close to the ground and spin in. This mechanism prevents stalling at high angles of attack, generating a greater degree of aerodynamic lift and aiding maneuverability in slow, turning flight. The aircraft can stall and fall and there is nothing you can do about it. The need to quickly stall the wing probably restricts the use of this mechanism to low-speed flight, when the wings are at a high angle of attack and more easily stalled. You are about ten knots above stalling as always - a stall now could be fatal. The planes won't have enough lift to fly at that altitude, and they'll stall and fall back to the ground. While still attempting to not stall or over speed, I began a turn in the general direction of the divert fields. In the worst-case scenario, the pilot pitches up to maintain altitude, gets too slow, stalls and spins to the ground. We learned to takeoff, land, spin, stall, perform precision turns, lazy eights, pylon eights and aerobatics. You would be flying along, at cruise, do nothing, and suddenly the glider would stall because of tail gusting. On standby instruments alone, he would have to avoid stalling or overspeeding the aircraft. I would sit back, stall, take my feet off the rudder pedals and, using the stick to keep level, losing altitude as we fluttered down to earth. At no speed the glider stalled and because of the left turn my left wing went down first. If it has an altitude-hold feature, it may cause the airplane to stall by pitching the nose up to maintain your selected altitude. 1.2Sailing Have insufficient wind power in the sails to give controlled motion. 〔航海〕（由于风力不够而）航行失控 Example sentencesExamples The sail coefficient of lift increases to its maximum and we are on the point of stalling the sail. Rey and his crew skillfully brought the boat to a near-standstill, pointed into the wind and on the verge of stalling out. A sailing ship that becomes stalled with its bow to the wind is said to be ‘in irons.’ 1.3with object Cause (an engine, vehicle, aircraft, or boat) to stall. （发动机的）熄火；（车辆的）抛锚；（飞机的）失速；（轮船的）停泊 Example sentencesExamples I lost a few positions when I stalled the engine during the second pit stop. Rice was leading 100 laps into the race when he stalled his car's engine in the pits. Green said the men ordered her to climb back into the vehicle but they had stalled the car and were unable to restart it. In flight, there was less than a ten knot difference between a speed so fast that it would rip the wings off the aircraft and a speed so slow that it would stall the engine. On October 30, just as the flood waters were creeping up in Ryedale, she drove her Peugeot car through a deep puddle and stalled the engine. When turbulence is kicked up by its rotors, it can actually stall the rotors, cause rolling sensations, even more. The Madrid based driver stalled the engine at the start of the second stage. The chaos left in his wake, stalled the boat's forward momentum and Farash grimly pulled hard on both rudders to keep the craft from turning about in midstream. 2Stop or cause to stop making progress. （情形，过程）停止发展 no object his career had stalled, hers taken off 他的事业停滞不前，她的事业却开始起飞。 with object the government has stalled the much-needed project 政府推迟了那个急需的项目。 Example sentencesExamples Progress has been stalled by the dispute with the surface rights owner. On the first day, the assault fell three miles short of the Pierson line, while further south they had made better progress but were stalled at the Miteirya Ridge. Work on the Mysore-Bangalore expressway has again been stalled by a stay order from the Supreme Court. But that deal could be stalled by an offer from the Co-op, according to weekend reports. Asked what he would do if the attempt to resurrect his career stalled, he said: ‘I would be at a loss.’ Casey is a man in a hurry, obsessed with gadgets, determined, for instance, to shop only on-line, but his progress has stalled a little this year. But since then progress has once again stalled with no resolution in sight. I won't discuss my other projects in progress that are stalled and waiting. But as soon as those mergers were announced, progress on any deal stalled. Manjula Herath, a second year player whose progress has been stalled by injury, is the left arm spinner. Two years ago her career stalled when she suffered a double fracture of the right ankle. But she is simply not in the class to challenge at this stage of a career which has stalled badly in recent seasons. But, as the environment slowly ebbed away as an election issue, progress stalled. When the two first started working together, Graham's career had stalled. His career stalled, Rodgers unenthusiastically enrolled at Columbia, following his brother's pre-med path. In several countries there is a concern that road safety progress has stalled. Perhaps it is unfair to pre-empt what will come out at the meeting, but at this stage progress has been stalled so many times, and for so many reasons, that people are bound to be sceptical. Carter's career has been stalled by two elbow surgeries, which cost him all of the 1997 and 2001 seasons. Coun Merry's political progress stalled after the death of his wife, Dr Feryal Raja, in 1995, but he came back strongly as deputy in 1998. It did not win the approval of the professors, and Gray's career as a muralist stalled before it had even started. Synonyms obstruct, impede, interfere with, hinder, hamper, block, interrupt, hold up, hold back, stand in the way of, frustrate, thwart, baulk, inhibit, hamstring, sabotage, encumber, restrain, slow, slow down, retard, delay, stonewall, forestall, arrest, check, stop, halt, stay, derail, restrict, limit, curb, put a brake on, bridle, fetter, shackle 2.1 Speak or act in a deliberately vague way in order to gain more time to deal with a question or issue; prevaricate. （为争取更多的时间而）拖延；支吾，搪塞 she was stalling for time 她在拖延时间。 Example sentencesExamples I hesitated, stalling for time, but she would have none of it. The husband cleared his throat, stalling for time in which to think of a polite response. I was stalling for time that I knew I didn't have. Phillip shuffled papers nervously, stalling for time. The government is stalling on the estuary while it tries to find a way through its foreshore and seabed dilemma. She was trying to find the right words to say and was stalling for time. You're not really looking for something you're stalling for time. She was stalling for time, avoiding the moment when she would tell him that it was over. Or is the Court simply stalling for time until a new chief justice is appointed? A contract was drawn up, but Billie-Jean kept stalling on exchange and settlement dates. ‘Quit stalling Dan and tell me’ impatience clear in her tone. A single car meandered down the street, an executive returning home late from work, stalling for time before he entered the house of the angry wife. The government is stalling on this reasonable request. ‘I don't know,’ I said, stalling for time as I tried to process the information she'd thrown at me in rapid-fire. ‘You're stalling for time,’ she said wisely, correctly deducing what I was trying to do as well as what I had done. I was stalling for time, not sure how to reply to this question. Industry critics say they are stalling for time to think up more positive ways of presenting farmed fish. Michael's voice rose in hesitation as he stretched his neck and scratched, stalling for time. He said Jasbir was being pressurised to go ahead with the marriage but had been stalling for time. ‘Truth,’ she decided, drawing out the word as if stalling for time. Synonyms use delaying tactics, play for time, temporize, gain time, hang back, hang fire, hold back, procrastinate, hedge, beat about the bush, drag one's feet, delay, filibuster, stonewall 2.2with object Delay or divert (someone) by stalling. 拖延；把…的注意力引开 stall him until I've had time to take a look 拖住他，直到我有时间来看一看。 Example sentencesExamples The crowd was stalling the police, and as Roni was pulled into a back room, they heard gunfire begin. By the time I even thought about stalling him, it was too late. She had stalled the police before; she wasn't sure how much longer she could continue to stall them. Start making scenes in his shop and he'll stall you for months with references to far-away bureaucrats without whose say-so nothing can move. She is really pestering me for the information, and so far I have been able to stall her, but not for long, so a quick answer to my problem, please. This direct approach got the job done much faster than using the appeal channels that are designed to stall you and make you powerless. I was trying to stall him, until my desperate and panicked mind could think of one way out of this. When he winced again, she knew that he wasn't stalling her. So when Michel popped the question, she said the first thing that came into her head as a way of stalling him: ‘Only if the King of Tonga marries us.’ So, while the other officers stalled him, I managed to slip in underneath the cabin and creep up from behind him. ‘I'm sorry to have stalled you, your highness,’ she added, addressing Cedric. I had left a little later than I wanted to due to the fact that my mother felt like stalling me. ‘And you are just trying to stall me,’ she said, shoving the jeans in my direction. You both know it, and that's why he's stalling you as long as he can. Michael rose to leave but his opponent's voice stalled him. The Medical staff of the local maternity hospital have been less than helpful, stalling her and not giving her a scan to see how far on the pregnancy is. Jessie and Paul had a quick chat in the kitchen whilst Alora stalled Lisa by talking to her in the living room. Coyne said he waited until the bell rang so students could change classes without seeing Mayer in the hallway, adding he ‘could understand why Mayer thought he was stalling him.’ She laughed at the question and knew that I was trying to stall her. Barnabas is still trying to stall him, but Roger starts heading upstairs, telling Barnabas he is tired and Barnabas can let himself out. Synonyms delay, divert, distract 3with object Put or keep (an animal) in a stall, especially in order to fatten it. 把（牲畜）关在厩内（养肥） Example sentencesExamples One more row was behind these stalls on both sides, allowing a maximum of eighty horses to be stalled in the large place. ‘You could see where the horses had been stalled,’ Andy recalls of that first visit to the barn. Stallions that are stalled tend to move about more and sometimes roll more frequently then when they are turned out. A horse that is stalled, as some police horses are, would have no opportunity to develop this vice. Origin Old English steall ‘stable or cattle shed’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch stal, also to stand. Early senses of the verb included ‘reside, dwell’ and ‘bring to a halt’.
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