(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.
Vendor
Definition:
(n.) A vender; a seller; the correlative of vendee.
Example Sentences:
(1) Britain's estate agents today report a surge in the number of properties for sale amid signs jittery vendors are keen to strike a deal before next month's general election.
(2) The solicitor did a search, they went through the parish records and local histories, they got a sworn statement from the vendors: in the 150-plus years since it was built, the farm had never flooded.
(3) The most basic mark of credibility for a Democratic campaign is whether it has bought access to the voter file as administered through NGP VAN , the Democratic party’s quasi-official vendor for voting information.
(4) Drugs, equipment and supplies are available through the hospital and contract vendors.
(5) It is suggested that primary responsibility for quality control be placed on the relatively few manufacturer-vendors rather than on the multiple purchaser-users, who may not possess either the expertise or the resources for quality control programs.
(6) Because fused silica columns with immobilized stationary phases of varying polarities are offered by numerous vendors of chromatographic equipment, they have become widely used for many analytical tasks.
(7) However, enzymatic kits for free glycerol analysis obtained from different vendors have, on occasion, provided different results for a given sample.
(8) "We've got no more food and no more house, so leaving is the only thing to do," Livena Livel, a 22-year-old street vendor, told Associated Press.
(9) There is still plenty vendors can do to make sure their property stands out in the online "beauty parade", says John Durrant, a former estate agent turned professional photographer, whose website www.doctor-photo.co.uk will improve photographs of your home for just £3 a shot.
(10) Street vendors and shoppers also appear to have been targeted in an attack in central Baghdad just hours later.
(11) I looked on the UK cannabis forum, which had 30,000 postings, and a vendor called JesusOfRave was recommended.
(12) For searchers without access to a medical library or for more experienced searchers, an information vendor such as BRS, MEDIS, or DIALOG may be more appropriate.
(13) Germany and the Netherlands were joint third in the numbers of dealers, with 225 each, although Dutch vendors made fewer but, on average, larger transactions and operated in a far smaller jurisdiction.
(14) On 2 August Fayaz Rah, a 39-year-old fruit vendor from Batamaloo, had lunch with his wife and three children.
(15) Inside, vendors sold balloons, candyfloss and posters of Sisi with Nasser, Sisi with a roaring lion, Sisi with his trademark sunglasses.
(16) An annotated guide to database vendors is provided, and guidelines are offered that will assist the physician in selecting equipment and assessing services.
(17) The rationale for a statewide list and the criteria for choosing vendors are discussed.
(18) Where in July street vendors sold hats and T-shirts with slogans such as “Hillary for Prison” and “Life’s a bitch, don’t vote for one”, this week the merchandise says “Hard working town Cleveland”, “Land of champions”, “C*town don’t back down” and “I liked Cleveland before it was cool”.
(19) Pasteurella multocida was isolated from 42 of the 135 (31%) deep nasal swabs from clinically healthy conventional rabbits supplied by two vendors.
(20) Working with the radiology department to compile a standard list of radiopharmaceuticals and radiopaque contrast media and soliciting competitive bids by vendors of these products resulted in annual savings of more than $83,000.