What's the difference between chancel and stall?

Chancel


Definition:

  • (v. t.) That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed.
  • (v. t.) All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Jack Colback’s free-kick was deep and when Fabricio Coloccini headed back, Chancel Mbemba nodded goalwards.
  • (2) McClaren also lost the defenders Chancel Mbemba and Paul Dummett to injury.
  • (3) Capitalising on Chancel Mbemba’s mistake, the substitute striker rounded Rob Elliot, who was to make a vital 90th-minute save to deny Cheikhou Kouyaté, before scoring with only his second touch.
  • (4) Chancel Mbemba and Fabricio Coloccini struggled to contain King, while the gritty Bournemouth midfielder Harry Arter ensured his side won the midfield battle on only his third appearance of the season.
  • (5) Children’s art is on display and in the granite church sunlight enhances the 1466 brass effigies of the serjeant-at-law Nicholas de Assheton, who died the year before, and his wife, Margaret – figures normally hidden beneath the chancel floor but revealed on this day.
  • (6) Watford nearly restored their two-goal advantage when Ighalo and Deeney combined adroitly but Chancel Mbemba’s splendid late intervention denied Deeney.
  • (7) Newcastle came close as Aleksandar Mitrovic and Chancel Mbemba threatened.
  • (8) Agüero saw a penalty appeal against Chancel Mbemba turned down (almost certainly correctly) after being very smartly played in by De Bruyne and Karl Darlow was required to make a superb save to keep out Jesús Navas’s curving shot.
  • (9) I hope that people can be reasonable and talk things through, and my track record shows that I am willing to make accommodations … but I won’t compromise principle.” Pope Francis journeys to Washington to begin historic US visit – live updates Read more That line-in-the-chancel position on some of the key topics dividing American Catholics today – especially issues of family and sexuality – has angered the Bay Area faithful and drawn national attention leading to unfavorable comparisons to Pope Francis.
  • (10) There was no real end product though, and Chelsea almost made their hosts pay for over-adventurousness in attack when Chancel Mbemba was caught in possession much too far up the pitch, creating a hole in central defence into which Cesc Fàbregas strode to bring a diving save from Krul.
  • (11) Lascelles will be suspended for West Bromwich Albion’s visit to St James’ on Saturday and McClaren lost two other defenders here, Chancel Mbemba and Paul Dummett, to injury.
  • (12) He joins Georginio Wijnaldum, Aleksandar Mitrovic, Chancel Mbemba and Ivan Toney through the door and McClaren will hope his arrival kick-starts their Premier League campaign following a draw and a defeat from the opening two games.
  • (13) Appropriately he began the decisive move exchanging passes with Ulloa and making an angled, offside defying run, before cutting cleverly inside Chancel Mbemba.
  • (14) Aaron Ramsey found Sánchez and he asked Danny Welbeck to chase a ball that he put in behind Chancel Mbemba.
  • (15) Damningly McClaren has been deprived of a fit specialist left-back for much of the season while Chancel Mbemba – an £8m buy from Anderlecht last summer and his best centre-half – appears to have fallen victim to the club’s injury jinx.
  • (16) • Advise you of any "incurred costs" including well-known ones like stamp duty or much more unusual charges like chancel repair liability applying to a few homes near churches.
  • (17) In Kinshasha, Crystal Palace’s Yannick Bolasie and the Newcastle defender Chancel Mbemba both played in DR Congo’s 2-1 win over Angola.

Stall


Definition:

  • (v. i.) A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal.
  • (v. i.) A stable; a place for cattle.
  • (v. i.) A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.
  • (v. i.) A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
  • (v. i.) A seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving.
  • (v. i.) In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
  • (v. i.) The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post.
  • (v. t.) To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox.
  • (v. t.) To fatten; as, to stall cattle.
  • (v. t.) To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
  • (v. t.) To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart.
  • (v. t.) To forestall; to anticipitate. Having
  • (v. t.) To keep close; to keep secret.
  • (v. i.) To live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell.
  • (v. i.) To kennel, as dogs.
  • (v. i.) To be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.
  • (v. i.) To be tired of eating, as cattle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) No one has jobs,” said Annie, 45, who runs a street stall selling fried chicken and rice in the Matongi neighbourhood.
  • (2) Maybe it’s because they are skulking, sedentary creatures, tied to their post; the theatre critic isn’t going anywhere other than the stalls, and then back home to write.
  • (3) It’s a bright, simple space with wooden tables and high stalls and offers tastings and beer-making workshops.
  • (4) Nick Mabey, head of the E3G climate thinktank in London, said without US action there were risks talks would stall.
  • (5) Women in their 20s Christina Wallace , Director, Startup Institute of New York I do think the women's movement is stalled – especially since it's just not something my generation really thinks about.
  • (6) In March, the Tories reappointed their trusty old attack dogs, M&C Saatchi, to work alongside the lead agency, Euro RSCG, and M&C Saatchi's chief executive, David Kershaw, wasted no time in setting out his stall, saying: "It's a fallacy that online has replaced offline in terms of media communications."
  • (7) Progress on treaties underpinning nuclear disarmament – which have too long been stalled – has also recently begun to look more hopeful, with renewed prospects for achieving the entry into force of the comprehensive test ban treaty and for starting negotiations on a treaty to ban the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive purposes.
  • (8) Three age groups were used: stall fed yearlings, grazing heifers and lactating cows.
  • (9) Overseas, the recovery in the eurozone, the place that buys half of our exported goods and services, appears to have stalled.
  • (10) His department has extra funds available for the NHS in Northern Ireland after the A5 road project linking the Irish Republic to Derry via the western counties of the province was stalled.
  • (11) Add to this the fact that sows in China are almost certain to be kept in stalls.
  • (12) Too often the debate gets stalled in a maternal versus fetal rights headlock.
  • (13) The US said it had removed North Korea – once a member of George Bush's axis of evil – from the terror list to breathe life into the stalled nuclear negotiations and would continue to pressure Pyongyang to resolve the abduction issue.
  • (14) embed Even globe-straddling colossus Philip Morris International (PMI), owner of brands including Marlboro, has set its stall out for a “smoke-free” future, where nicotine addicts get their fix from vaping and other non-tobacco products.
  • (15) The chancellor's handling of the economy has come under scrutiny as the economy's tentative recovery in 2010 has stalled.
  • (16) "They will always create obstacles in order to prevent it, and every time we make some progress there is an incident that happens" He also called on the Obama administration to release Taliban commanders from Guantánamo Bay, so they could take part in a peace process that began and then stalled in Qatar earlier this year.
  • (17) Wider acknowledgement of the problem has not always translated into the practical action required to safeguard the lives, health and dignity of survivors of violence.” The report calls for the government to take action on promised reform, stalled legislation and police training.
  • (18) Thirty-one cases were managed surgically, 14 by external fixation, and six by stall confinement.
  • (19) "The nationalists will go to great lengths to try to prove there is a groundswell towards leaving the UK but the truth is that their campaign is stalled.
  • (20) Right now, policymakers will probably be more concerned by stalling eurozone growth than a headline inflation figure dragged down by commodity prices.