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say it: stawl
stall is a noun and verb meaning "a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed". It carries 14 recorded senses.
a booth where articles are displayed for sale
a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge
“the plane went into a stall and I couldn't control it”
a tactic used to mislead or delay
postpone doing what one should be doing
“He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days”
deliberately delay an event or action
“she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for stall come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.