stall
Từ điển Collocation
stall noun
ADJ. market | book, cake, fish, flower, etc.
VERB + STALL have He has a flower stall in Portobello Road market. | put up, set out/up | pack up | man, run Who's going to man the stall at lunchtime?
STALL + VERB sell sth a stall selling second-hand books
STALL + NOUN holder (also stallholder), keeper
PREP. at a/the ~ I bought this trout at the market fish stall. | behind the ~ the man behind the stall
Từ điển WordNet
v.
- postpone doing what one should be doing; procrastinate, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally
He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days
- come to a stop; conk
The car stalled in the driveway
- deliberately delay an event or action
she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling
- put into, or keep in, a stall
Stall the horse
- experience a stall in flight, of airplanes
- cause an airplane to go into a stall
- cause an engine to stop
The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car
English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary
stalls|stalled|stalling
syn.: block booth cell compartment dawdle delay dillydally hinder procrastinate