What's the difference between heathen and stall?

Heathen


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Heathen
  • (n.) An individual of the pagan or unbelieving nations, or those which worship idols and do not acknowledge the true God; a pagan; an idolater.
  • (n.) An irreligious person.
  • (a.) Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author.
  • (a.) Barbarous; unenlightened; heathenish.
  • (a.) Irreligious; scoffing.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The heroine of Jane Eyre is hypnotised by this cold and saintly missionary, who proposes that they marry and go to India together to convert heathens (and perish doing God's holy work).
  • (2) Heathens are unredeemed outcasts from heaven who roam the planet without hope of surviving the deaths of their bodies.
  • (3) Ye satanic windmills are verily heathen science bequeathed by snollygosters that fail to honour the old ways and displeaseth the coal gods,” it said.
  • (4) No way should bishops or imams or rabbis have the power in parliament, unelected, to influence the way we heathens (or humanists) should live our lives.
  • (5) Study the expressions on the faces of Barack Obama or Ben Bernanke talking about "growth" as if it were a heathen god to be appeased by tipping another cauldron's worth of fictional money into the mouth of a volcano.
  • (6) I also don't say this as a heathen: good quality tea is essential to making the perfect cup.
  • (7) In 2011 he released the album Toy, which dated back to 2001 and comprised tracks from Heathen and their B sides plus versions of older material.
  • (8) There have been suggestions that both the looting and the government's failure to tackle it results from the rise of Islamists who are culturally opposed to Egypt's heathen heritage.
  • (9) a) Herbert Grönemeyer b) Peter Maffay c) Udo Jürgens (the "joke" is that it spells out a sentence "If Lattek wears Klinsi's shorts, Jürgen wears Udo's" (it's Udo Lattek and Jürgen Klinsmann) d) Patrick Lindner 300 Flower of the year in 2012 is a) Katholikenuschi (Catholic Uschi) b) Baddhistenbaerbel (Buddhist Baerbel) c) Protestantenwaltraud (Protestant Waltraud) d) Heidenelke (Heathen Elke) 500 If the idiot (Depp… so means Johnny Depp in this context) doesn't have his debit card on him, how does he pay?
  • (10) Sadly, he hasn't gone for Transformers Plasters, the heathen.
  • (11) A fortnight ago McConnell told his congregation at the Whitewell Metropolitan Tabernacle: "Islam is heathen.
  • (12) Heathen swingers destroying the notion of Britishness.
  • (13) Based on data of two Canadian Protestant missions in China before 1937, this study reveals that medical missionaries were generally ignorant of Chinese medicine, and they regarded Chinese medicine as part of an inferior, heathen culture.
  • (14) It reminds me a little of Everyone Says "Hi" from 2002's Heathen.
  • (15) The following year, he was artistic director of the Meltdown festival on the South Bank in London, opening the event by performing the first concert of his own Heathen tour, in support of his album of the same name.
  • (16) The unusual event has been celebrated for centuries and is thought to have its roots in a heathen festival to celebrate the return of spring.
  • (17) Improvements on the MBMs (No 479 in a series of 389,457): "Unthinkable as it may seem, I think I've found a better way to follow the tournament than with the MBMs," writes heathen Philip Hucknall.
  • (18) The arrival of his daughter, Alexandria, in 2000 opened a joyous new dimension, though he kept working, delivering 2002’s Heathen , a dreamy confection of old and new material, and 2003’s Reality , a crafted call to “face the music and dance”.
  • (19) We were called pagans and heathens and spawn of the devil," she says.
  • (20) Terrible omens preceded the raid, the chroniclers wrote, “whirlwinds, lightning, and fiery dragons were seen flying in the sky”, and then “the ravaging of wretched heathen people destroyed God’s church at Lindisfarne”.

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.