Stall vs Bubble - What's the difference?
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(countable) A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.
A stable; a place for cattle.
* Dryden
A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
* John Gay
(countable) A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market.
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A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.
* (rfdate) John Updike, Rabbit at Rest ,
(countable) A seat in a theatre close to and (about) level with the stage; traditionally, a seat with arms, or otherwise partly enclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.
(aeronautics) Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded.
(paganism, and, Heathenry) An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow .
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A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
* 1910 [1840], , P. F. Collier edition,
A sheath to protect the finger.
(mining) The space left by excavation between pillars.
To put (an animal etc) in a stall.
* Dryden
To fatten.
To come to a standstill.
To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.
* E. E. Hale
(aeronautics) To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in total loss of lift.
(obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a stall; to dwell.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To be stuck, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.
(obsolete) To be tired of eating, as cattle.
To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
To forestall; to anticipate.
* Massinger
To keep close; to keep secret.
* Shakespeare
An action that is intended to cause or actually causes delay.
To employ delaying tactics against
To employ delaying tactics
A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
(economics) A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts (eg the ).
(obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
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(figurative) The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed; circumstances, ambience.
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(Cockney rhyming slang) a Greek (also: bubble and squeak)
A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
The globule of air in the spirit tube of a level.
Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
* Shakespeare
(Cockney rhyming slang) A laugh. (also: bubble bath)
To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking).
(archaic) To cheat, delude.
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* Addison
* Sterne
(intransitive, Scotland, and, Northern England) To cry, weep.
In intransitive terms the difference between stall and bubble
is that stall is to employ delaying tactics while bubble is to produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking).In obsolete terms the difference between stall and bubble
is that stall is to be tired of eating, as cattle while bubble is someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.As nouns the difference between stall and bubble
is that stall is a compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed while bubble is a spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.As verbs the difference between stall and bubble
is that stall is to put (an animal etc) in a stall while bubble is to produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking).stall
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) stall, from (etyl) , Old Norse stallr. Cognate with (stand).Noun
(en noun)- At last he found a stall where oxen stood.
- how peddlers' stalls with glittering toys are laid
- He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
- Rabbit eases from the king-size bed, goes into their bathroom with its rose-colored one-piece Fiberglas tub and shower stall , and urinates into the toilet of a matching rose porcelain.
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- When he had been some months installed there as a priest-in-charge, he received a prebendal stall , thanks to the same patrons, in the collegiate church of Sainte-Croix.
Verb
(en verb)- to stall an ox
- where King Latinus then his oxen stalled
- to stall cattle
- to stall a cart
- His horses had been stalled in the snow.
- We could not stall together / In the whole world.
- (Shakespeare)
- not to be stall'd by my report
- Stall this in your bosom.
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- His encounters with security, reception, the secretary, and the assistant were all stalls until the general manager's attorney arrived.
Verb
(en verb)- He stalled the creditors as long as he could.
- Soon it became clear that she was stalling to give him time to get away.
bubble
English
(wikipedia bubble)Noun
(en noun)- bubbles in window glass, or in a lens
- Granny's a cheat, and I'm a bubble .
- For no woman, sure, will plead the passion of love for an excuse. This would be to own herself the mere tool and bubble of the man.
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- Then a soldier / Seeking the bubble reputation / Even in the cannon's mouth.
- Are you having a bubble ?!
Synonyms
* (a laugh) giraffe, bubble bathVerb
(bubbl)- No, no, friend, I shall never be bubbled out of my religion in hopes only of keeping my place under another government
- She has bubbled him out of his youth.
- The great Locke, who was seldom outwitted by false sounds, was nevertheless bubbled here.