| 单词 | stall |
| 释义 | stall (once / 395 pages) 1nv 2nv 3vn Stall means to stop or delay. If your car stalls, it comes to a stop. When you want a horse to stop, you put him in a stall, or small enclosure inside a barn. The word stall implies stopping something that will start again — a horse will leave the stall eventually and start moving, a stalled car can be restarted. Remember that when you're thinking about stall in the sense of postpone or delay. You can stall your professor from giving an exam by talking about last night’s big game. Your little sister can stall going to bed by asking for one more story. If you want to delay an approaching army, you might steal their boots — they'll still come but the "stall tactic" will buy you time. WORD FAMILYstall: forestall, stalled, stalling, stalls+/forestall: forestalled, forestalling, forestalls/forestalling: forestallings/stalling: stallings USAGE EXAMPLESA voluntary 24/7 sobriety program passed the Senate last year but stalled in the House, with MADD, civil libertarians and others raising opposition. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Then he turned and knocked on the wood panel inside the locker-room stall inside at Toyota Center. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) A measure to allow government agencies in New Jersey to publish their own legal notices stalled in December. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1n small area set off by walls for special use Syn|Hypo|Hyper booth, cubicle, kiosk confessional a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions polling bootha temporary booth in a polling place which people enter to cast their votes prompt box, prompter's boxa booth projecting above the floor in the front of a stage where the prompter sits; opens toward the performers on stage shower bath, shower stallbooth for washing yourself, usually in a bathroom call box, phone booth, telephone booth, telephone box, telephone kioskbooth for using a telephone tolbooth, tollbooth, tollhousea booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls voting bootha booth in which a person can cast a private vote closet a small private room for study or prayer 2n a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed Hyper compartment a partitioned section, chamber, or separate room within a larger enclosed area 3n a booth where articles are displayed for sale Syn|Hypo|Hyper sales booth, stand coffee stall a stand (usually movable) selling hot coffee and food (especially at night) newsstanda stall where newspapers and other periodicals are sold booth a small shop at a fair; for selling goods or entertainment 4n seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater Hyper seating, seating area, seating room, seats an area that includes places where several people can sit 5n small individual study area in a library Syn|Hyper carrel, carrell, cubicle alcove, bay a small recess opening off a larger room 6v put into, or keep in, a stall 2Stall the horse Hyper shelter provide shelter for 1n a tactic used to mislead or delay Syn|Hypo|Hyper stalling stonewalling stalling or delaying especially by refusing to answer questions or cooperate obstruction the act of obstructing 2v postpone doing what one should be doing Syn|Hypo|Hyper dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, procrastinate, shillyshally procrastinate postpone or delay needlessly delay act later than planned, scheduled, or required 3v deliberately delay an event or action 3she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling Hyper delay, detain, hold up cause to be slowed down or delayed 1v come to a stop The car stalled in the driveway Syn|Hyper conk halt, stop come to a halt, stop moving 2v cause an engine to stop The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car Hyper stop cause to stop 3v cause an airplane to go into a stall Hyper stop cause to stop 4v experience a stall in flight, of airplanes Hyper halt, stop come to a halt, stop moving 5n a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge the plane went into a stall and I couldn't control it Hyper malfunction a failure to function normally |
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