closet vs stall

stall vs closet

closet and stall both are nouns.

closet and stall both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
closet	Yes	No	Yes	No
stall	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, stall is a hyponym of closet; that is, stall is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than closet:

closet: a small private room for study or prayer
stall: small area set off by walls for special use

Other hyponyms of closet include booth, cubicle, kiosk.

closet (noun)	stall (noun)
a small private room for study or prayer	a tactic used to mislead or delay
a toilet in Britain	small area set off by walls for special use
a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes	a booth where articles are displayed for sale
a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space	small individual study area in a library
	a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed
	seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater
	a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge

closet (verb)	stall (verb)
confine to a small space, as for intensive work	deliberately delay an event or action
	come to a stop
	cause an engine to stop
	cause an airplane to go into a stall
	experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
	put into, or keep in, a stall
	postpone doing what one should be doing

Difference between closet and stall

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