Defer vs Stall - What's the difference?
defer | stall |
To delay or postpone; especially to postpone induction into military service.
* Shakespeare
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to delay, to wait
* Milton
(American football) to choose to kick off after winning the opening coin toss.
(legal) To submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority.
* Francis Bacon
* 1899 ,
to render, to offer
* Brevint
(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.
* 1900', , Chapter I,
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
As verbs the difference between defer and stall
is that defer is to delay or postpone; especially to postpone induction into military service or defer can be (legal) to submit to the opinion or desire of another in respect to their judgment or authority while stall is .As a noun stall is
a stand (device to hold something upright or aloft).defer
English
Etymology 1
* From (etyl) differer, from (etyl) .Verb
(deferr)- Defer the spoil of the city until night.
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- God will not long defer / To vindicate the glory of his name.
Derived terms
* deferralEtymology 2
* From (etyl)Verb
(deferr)- Hereupon the commissioners deferred the matter to the Earl of Northumberland.
- "Well, I must defer to your judgment. You are captain," he said with marked civility.
- worship deferred to the Virgin
Derived terms
* deferenceAnagrams
* * ----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.