(n.) A Turkish open summer house or pavilion, supported by pillars.
Example Sentences:
(1) The contract envisaged freeing up staff time by moving to a ‘self-service’ model where, for example, residents send their own faxes and book their own visits.” The report also discloses that the kiosks are being used by detainees to order their food and can be used in the languages most commonly spoken at Yarl’s Wood.
(2) Instead of medicine, all the doctors could offer were cartons of fruit juice bought en masse from a nearby kiosk.
(3) Small crowds gathered outside kiosks to gaze at the displays of newspapers that had sold out.
(4) Yes, definitely – but somehow, the best ones are from kiosks.
(5) After his kiosk burned down last year, Khalid’s father had given him the microbus to allow him to make a living driving people around.
(6) Each wing has an electronic kiosk, allowing prisoners to book their own visits, make medical appointments, buy food and an approved list of products from Argos, freeing staff (who would otherwise be doing this for them) to do other things.
(7) Penbryn beach – which is completely devoid of kiosks, buildings or beach huts – featured in the Bond film Die Another Day.
(8) The discount, will also be available in its cafes and petrol-station kiosks, but not on online shopping.
(9) It reports that Greek unions plan to bring much of the near-bankrupt country to a standstill, adding: Most business and public sector activity is expected to grind to a halt during the 24-hour strike called by the ADEDY and GSEE unions, with newspaper kiosk owners and air traffic controllers among various groups joining the protest.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Alexis Tsipars and leader of Independent Greeks Panos Kammenos wave to supporters at the pre-election kiosk of the party in Athens.
(11) KS As I stand on El Prado, the main road going through the centre of the city, I can see some very young children cleaning car windows, selling sweets, running kiosks, and many of them are working in groups.
(12) "It's a very costly action but I don't think they had a choice if they want to maintain the tourism industry and the security of the Kenyan people," said Ceaser Ndungu, a DVD seller with a kiosk in Westlands.
(13) There are no restaurants or kiosks at either beach so remember to take food and water with you.
(14) We’re still waiting for someone to sponsor us to heat the pool so we can open in winter,” says co-founder Daniel Lente, who gives me a tour of the area, which includes a cocktail bar, Soul Food kiosk, beer garden and large concert and club space.
(15) The glassy facade of the new, as-yet unopened, airport terminal; the extra kiosks on the streets selling snacks and colourful toys.
(16) The beach has all the facilities you'll need (toilets, lifeguards, a kiosk etc) but none of the hassle of more developed beaches.
(17) The day's takings from his kiosk had been stolen, and five days later he died of his injuries.
(18) I drink Red Bull so that I can read on long flights,” he said in the lounge, as a Greek businessman who owned restaurants in Madrid insisted on paying for our cafe freddo at the coffee kiosk and enthused about the changes coming to both countries.
(19) Savings come mainly from replacing some staff with self-service kiosks,” says the NAO report.
(20) Smoke is rising over parts of the city, after one demonstrator set light to a bin spyros gkelis (@northaura) Fire also in a garbage bin and a kiosk at #syntagma sq.
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.