stall

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A few weeks ago, while taking a quick trip to the little boys room at my local Denny's I noticed there, scrawled on the wall of the stall were the words "Batman is the almighty creator of the universe".

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  1. noun A compartment for one domestic animal in a barn or shed.
  2. noun A booth, cubicle, or stand used by a vendor, as at a market.
  3. noun A small compartment: a shower stall.
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  • She waited out a short line for a stall, then stripped off the costume and traded it for the simple wash-and-wear blouse and slacks outfit and heels stored in the knapsack. —  EQMM,March-April2006
  • I've been warned that the stall characteristics of an airplane like this are terrible, but the stall is a non-event. —  Cockpit Conversation
  • The pomp and majesty of the guards outside the parliament cut a stark contrast to Bella's modest fruit stall which is swarming with flies and sits just metres from puddles of stagnant water. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • Even as the stall was still being setup, once the "British Jobs for British Workers" banner was unfolded, the first enquirer came up straightaway asking for information and a membership form, and this then set the scene for a steady stream of enquirers throughout the morning approaching the stall to chat and to take copies of —  The British National Party
  • In the stall is a toilet filled with syringe needles. —  Destructoid
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Used in the same context Used in the Same Context

booth ·  shop ·  barn ·  shed ·  hut ·  tent ·  cart ·  warehouse ·  enclosure ·  pew ·  building ·  gallery

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stall:   stalls ·  stalling ·  stalled
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Etymologies (5)

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  1. Middle English stalle, from Old English steall, standing place, stable; see stel- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Alteration (influenced by stall1) of obsolete stale, pickpocket's accomplice, from Middle English, decoy, from Anglo-Norman estale, of Germanic origin; possibly akin to Old English stǣl, stathol, place, position; see staddle.

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  1. from Middle English stal, stall, stalle, stale, steal, from Anglo-Saxon steal (steall-), stæl, a station, stall, = OFries. stal, Middle Dutch, Dutch Middle Low German stal = Old High German Middle High German stal (stall-), German stall = Icelandic stallr = Swedish stall = Danish stald (cf. Italian stallo, stalla = Old Spanish estalo = Old French estal, French étal, a stall, étau, a vice, = Provencal estal, from Middle Latin stallum, a stall, from Teutonic), a place, stall; akin to stool, stale, etc., and to Greek στέλλειν, place, set, ult. from the root of stand, Latin stare, Greek ἱστάναι, Sanskrit √ sthā, stand: see stand. Hence stall, v., and ult. stale, stallion, etc., as well as stell: see these words.
  2. from Middle English stallen, from Anglo-Saxon steallian, place, set, = Swedish stalla, put into a stall, = Danish stalle, stall-feed, fatten, = Middle High German G. stallen, stable, stall; from the noun. Cf. stell. Hence forestall, install, installation, etc.
  3. A variant of stale, a decoy, etc., apparently confused with stall.
 

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