Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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stall | Yes | No | Yes | No |
stop | Yes | No | Yes | No |
stall (noun) | stop (noun) |
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a tactic used to mislead or delay | the act of stopping something |
small area set off by walls for special use | a brief stay in the course of a journey |
a booth where articles are displayed for sale | a restraint that checks the motion of something |
small individual study area in a library | an obstruction in a pipe or tube |
a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed | a mechanical device in a camera that controls size of aperture of the lens |
seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater | (music) a knob on an organ that is pulled to change the sound quality from the organ pipes |
a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge | a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some point and suddenly releasing it |
a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations | |
the event of something ending | |
a spot where something halts or pauses | |
the state of inactivity following an interruption |
stall (verb) | stop (verb) |
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deliberately delay an event or action | prevent completion |
come to a stop | stop and wait, as if awaiting further instructions or developments |
cause an engine to stop | hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of |
cause an airplane to go into a stall | seize on its way |
experience a stall in flight, of airplanes | render unsuitable for passage |
put into, or keep in, a stall | come to a halt, stop moving |
postpone doing what one should be doing | cause to end |
interrupt a trip | |
stop from happening or developing | |
put an end to a state or an activity | |
have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical |