Stall vs Stick - What's the difference?
stall | stick |
(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 .
* {{quote-book
, year=1989
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, title=A Book of Troth
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, passage=In a private rite, a ring is drawn on the ground around a harrow or before an indoor stall .}}
* {{quote-book
, year=2006
, author=Selene Silverwind
, title=Everything you need to know about Paganism
, publisher=David & Charles
, chapter=Asatruar Tools and Practices
* {{quote-book
, year=2006
, author=Mark Puryear
, publisher=iUniverse
, title=The Nature of Asatru: An Overview of the Ideals and Philosophy of the Indigenous Religion of Northern Europe
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
An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
# A small, thin branch from a tree or bush; a twig; a branch.
#* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= # A relatively long, thin piece of wood, of any size. (jump)
#* {{quote-news, 1887, August 23, The New York Times, title=
, passage=It is a fine stick , about 70 feet long.}}
# (US) A timber board, especially a two by four (inches).
# A cane or walking stick (usually wooden, metal or plastic) to aid in walking.
#* , chapter=23
, title= # A cudgel or truncheon (usually of wood, metal or plastic), especially one carried by police or guards.
# (carpentry) The vertical member of a cope-and-stick joint.
#* {{quote-book, 1997, Joseph Beals, chapter=Building Interior Doors, publisher=Taunton Press, title=
, passage=When cutting the door parts, I cut all the copes first, then the sticks .}}
# (figuratively) A piece (of furniture, especially if wooden).
#* , edition=printed in Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. XXV, title=
, passage=It is more than poor Philip is worth, with all his savings and his little sticks of furniture.}}
Any roughly cylindrical (or rectangular) unit of a substance. (jump)
# (chiefly, North America) A small rectangular block, with a length several times its width, which contains by volume one half of a cup of shortening (butter, margarine or lard).
# A standard rectangular (often thin) piece of chewing gum. (jump)
# (slang) A cigarette . (jump)
Material or objects attached to a stick or the like.
# A bunch of something wrapped around or attached to a stick.
# (archaic) A scroll that is rolled around (mounted on, attached to) a stick.
#* {{quote-book, 1611, , The Bible, edition=, section=(w) 37:16
, passage=Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick , and write upon it
# (military) The structure to which a set of bombs in a bomber aircraft are attached and which drops the bombs when it is released. The bombs themselves and, by extension, any load of similar items dropped in quick succession such as paratroopers or containers. (jump)
#*
#* {{quote-book, 2006, (Farley Mowat), title=
, passage=A stick of bombs fell straight across Wotton; blew up half a dozen houses.}}
#* {{quote-book, 2006, Holly Aho, page=48, title=
, passage=James and I were in the same stick of five guys going through free fall school last September.}}
A tool, control, or instrument shaped somewhat like a stick.
# (US, colloquial) A manual transmission, a vehicle equipped with a manual transmission,
## (US, colloquial, uncountable) Vehicles, collectively, equipped with manual transmissions.
#
# (aviation) The control column of an aircraft; a joystick. (jump)
# (aviation, uncountable) Use of the stick to control the aircraft.
#* {{quote-book, 1941, Jay D. Blaufox, 33 Lessons in Flying, page=47
, passage=For example: in making a turn, should you throw on too much stick and not enough rudder, you'll sideslip.}}
# (computing) A memory stick.
#* {{quote-news, 2007, May 1, Alex Fethiere, Tech front: Alex Fethiere takes eleven notable portables for a high-tech test-drive, title=
, passage= For ultimate presentation portability, a Powerpoint can be saved to a stick as images.}}
# (dated, metal typesetting) A composing stick, the tool used by compositors to assemble lines of type.
#* {{quote-book, 1854, Thomas Ford, title=
, passage=
# (jazz, slang) The clarinet. (jump)
#* {{quote-book, 1948, , Jazz Parody: Anthology of Jazz Fiction, chapter=Deep Sea Rider, editor=Charles Harvey
, passage=Arsene, boy, ain't you worried about your clarinet? Where'd you leave that stick , man?}}
(sports) A stick-like item:
# (sports, generically) A long thin implement used to control a ball or puck in sports like hockey, polo, and lacrosse. (jump)
# (horse racing) The short whip carried by a jockey.
# (boardsports) A board as used in board sports, such as a surfboard, snowboard, or skateboard.
# (golf) The pole bearing a small flag that marks the hole. (jump)
# (US, slang, uncountable) The cue used in billiards, pool, snooker, etc.
## The game of pool, or an individual pool game.
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(sports, uncountable) Ability; specifically:
# (golf) The long-range driving ability of a golf club.
#*
# (baseball) The potential hitting power of a specific bat.
# (baseball) General hitting ability.
#* {{quote-news, 2002, May 19, Mike Lupica, New York Daily News, title=
, passage=Vaughn has to hit and keep hitting or this will be another year when the Mets don't have enough stick to win.}}
# (hockey) The potential accuracy of a hockey stick, implicating also the player using it.
(slang, dated) A person or group of people.
* {{quote-book, 1967, (Maurice Shadbolt), title=
, passage=Your father's a great old stick . He's really been very good to me.}}
# A thin or wiry person; particularly a flat-chested woman.
#* {{quote-book, 1967, Cecelia Holland, page=39, title=
, passage="She's a stick , this one. She lacks your—" he patted her left breast— "equipment."}}
# (magic) An assistant ed in the audience.
#* {{quote-book, 2001, Paul Quarrington, page=255, title=
, passage=The kid was a stick , a plant, a student from UNLV who picked up a few bucks nightly by saying the words "seven of hearts."}}
# A fighter pilot.
#* {{quote-book, 2001, John Darrell Sherwood, page=30, title=
, passage=Bill Kirk, described by Robin as a "hell of a stick ," didn't even attend college until after the Vietnam War.}}
# (military, South Africa) A small group of (infantry) soldiers.
#* {{quote-book, 2007, Bart Wolffe, page=245, title=
, passage=I remember when we dreaded the rain, as our stick of soldiers walked through the damp, tick-infested long grass of the Zambezi valley,
Encouragement or punishment, or (resulting) vigour or other improved behavior.
# A negative stimulus or a punishment.
#* {{quote-news, 1998, January 23, Indian Express, title=
, passage= What about contempt? Isn't it used by the judiciary as a stick to dissuade people from writing or talking about them?}}
# (slang, uncountable) Corporal punishment; beatings.
#* {{quote-book, 1999, Eve McDougall, page=69, isbn=190155709X, title=
, passage=The child killers got some stick . I saw a woman throw a basin of scalding water over a baby killer.}}
# (slang) Vigor; spirit; effort, energy, intensity.
#* {{quote-book, 1979, Don Bannister, page=185, title=
, passage='Choir gave it some stick on "Unto Us a Son is Born."' ¶ Cynthia nodded. ¶ 'It was always one of Russell's favourites. He makes them try hard on that.'}}
# (slang) Vigorous driving of a car; gas.
#* {{quote-book, 2006, Martyn J. Pass & Dani Pass, page=163, title=
, passage=Skunk really gave it some stick all the way to Caliban's place, we passed a good few Coppers but they all seemed to turn the blind eye.}}
A measure.
# (obsolete) An English Imperial unit of length equal to 2 inches.
#* {{quote-book, 1921, (Elmer Davis), page=61, title=
, passage=There was another speech in that day's news — a speech which The Times printed on the front page because it was part of a front-page story, and in full — it was only two sticks long; printed in full just after the much longer invocation by the officiating clergyman
# (archaic, rare) A quantity of eels, usually 25. (jump)
#* {{quote-book, 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, section=Volume 1, page=171, title=
, passage=The stick is employed for eels, and contained twenty-five.}}
#* {{quote-book, 1999, Claire Breay, page=62, title=
, passage=In the same charter, Nigel granted another 10 sticks of eels yielded by the fishery of Polwere to the abbey
(auto racing) The traction of tires on the road surface.
(fishing, uncountable) The amount of fishing line resting on the water surface before a cast; line stick.
* {{quote-book, 2004, Simon Gawesworth, Spey Casting
, passage=Problem: A lot of stick and a lack of energy on the forward stroke.}}
A thrust with a pointed instrument; a stab.
To become or remain attached; to adhere.
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To jam; to stop moving.
To tolerate, to endure, to stick with.
* 1998 , Patrick McEvoy, Educating the Future GP: the course organizer's handbook , page 7:
To persist.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=December 10, author=David Ornstein quoting (David Moyes)
, work=BBC Sport
, title= Of snow, to remain frozen on landing.
To remain loyal; to remain firm.
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To hesitate, to be reluctant; to refuse.
* 1743 , Thomas Stackhouse, A Compleat Body of Speculative and Practical Divinity , edition 3 (London), page 524:
* 1740 , James Blair, Our Saviour's divine sermon on the mount [...] explained , volume 3, page 26:
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (John Locke)
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Arbuthnot
(dated) To cause difficulties, scruples, or hesitation.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) Jonathan Swift
To attach with glue or as if by gluing.
To place, set down (quickly or carelessly).
* , chapter=8
, title= To press (something with a sharp point) into something else.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Dryden)
# To stab.
#* circa 1583', John Jewel, in a sermon republished in '''1847 in ''The Works of John Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury , portion 2, page 969:
#* 1809 , Grafton's chronicle, or history of England , volume 2, page 135:
#* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Sir Walter Scott)
#* 1908 , The Northeastern Reporter , volume 85, page 693:
To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale.
(archaic) To adorn or deck with things fastened on as by piercing.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Shakespeare)
(gymnastics) To perform (a landing) perfectly.
To propagate plants by cuttings.
(transitive, printing, slang, dated) To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick.
(joinery) To run or plane (mouldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such mouldings are said to be stuck .
(dated) To bring to a halt; to stymie; to puzzle.
(transitive, slang, dated) To impose upon; to compel to pay; sometimes, to cheat.
(informal) Likely to stick; sticking, sticky.
(British, uncountable) Criticism or ridicule.
* {{quote-news, 2008, May 3, Chris Roberts, It’s a stroll in the park!, Huddersfield Daily Examiner
, passage=I got some stick personally because of my walking attire. I arrived to training fully kitted out in sturdy walking boots.}}
As nouns the difference between stall and stick
is that stall is a stand (device to hold something upright or aloft) while stick is (ireland) a member of the official ira.As a verb stall
is .As a proper noun stick is
(musici) the chapman stick, an electric musical instrument devised by emmett chapman.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.
citation, isbn=9780715324868 , page=117 , passage=Some Asatruar kindreds call their indoor altars stalls and their outdoor altars harrows.}}
citation, isbn=9780595389643 , page=237 , passage=Stalli (STAL-i) - Altar .}}
- 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.
stick
English
(wikipedia stick)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame.}}
At Work on the Thistle
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The slightest effort made the patient cough. He would stand leaning on a stick and holding a hand to his side, and when the paroxysm had passed it left him shaking.}}
Doors, page=82, isbn=1561582042
The Adventures of Philip, page=242
- (US)
Aftermath: Travels in a Post-War World, isbn=0811733386, page=200
From Here to There, isbn=1411675401
Business Traveler
The Compositor's Handbook, page=125
Just Need A Little Mo
The Presence of Music: Three Novellas, page=54
Rakóssy
The Spirit Cabinet
Fast Movers: America's Jet Pilots and the Vietnam Experience
Persona Non Grata, isbn=1430304774
Judicial activism has ushered in hope
A Wicked Fist
- = he threw himself into the task of digging
Sam Chard, isbn=071000219X
Waiting for Red, isbn=1905237553
History of the New York Times, 1851-1921
A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, isbn=140217120X
The Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey, isbn=0851157505
Usage notes
* Generally used in the negative, or in contexts expressive of poverty or lack.Synonyms
* branch, twig; kindling, brush (uncountable) * (jump) two by four * cane, walking stick * stickshift; gearstick * plant, shill * piece, item * (jump) pin, flagstick * (jump) train * (jump) licorice stick * (jump) stich, broach * (jump) joint, reefer * See alsoDerived terms
Note: Terms derived from the verb are found . * Chapman Stick * chopstick * clue stick * composing stick * dipstick * drumstick * give stick * glue stick * high-stick/high-sticking * hockey stick * in the sticks * it is easy to find a stick to beat a dog * joystick * lipstick * memory stick * nightstick * old stick * selfie stick * short end of the stick * speak softly and carry a big stick * stick deodorant * stick in the mud * stick of furniture * stick shaker * stickless * stickshift * walking stick * yardstickEtymology 2
From (etyl) . Cognate to first etymology (same PIE root, different paths through Germanic and Old English), to stitch, and to etiquette, via French – see there for further discussion.Noun
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Verb
- Why do most course organizers stick the job for less than five years?
Arsenal 1-0 Everton, passage="Our team did brilliantly to be in the game. We stuck at it and did a good job. This is disappointing but we'll think about the next game tomorrow."}}
- The First-fruits'' were a common Oblation to their Deities; but the chief Part of their Worship consisted in ''sacrificiing'' Animals : And this they did out of a real Persuasion, that their Gods were pleased with their Blood, and were nourished with the ''Smoke'', and Nidor of them; and therefore the more costly, they thought them the more acceptable, for which Reason, they stuck not sometimes to regale them with ''human Sacrifices.
- And so careful were they to put off the Honour of great Actions from themselves, and to centre it upon God, that they stuck not sometimes to depreciate themselves that they might more effectually honour him.
- They will stick long at part of a demonstration for want of perceiving the connection of two ideas.
- Some stick not to say, that the parson and attorney forged a will.
- This is the difficulty that sticks with the most reasonable.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}
- to stick a needle into one's finger
- The points of spears are stuck within the shield.
- In certain of their sacrifices they had a lamb, they sticked' him, they killed him, and made sacrifice of him: this lamb was Christ the Son of God, he was killed, ' sticked , and made a sweet-smelling sacrifice for our sins.
- It was a shame to stick him under the other gentleman's arm while he was redding the fray.
- The defendant said he didn't shoot; "he sticked him with a knife."
- to stick an apple on a fork
- my shroud of white, stuck all with yew
- to stick type
- to stick somebody with a hard problem
Derived terms
Note: Terms derived from the noun are found . * stick by * sticker * stick to * sticktoitiveness * stick to one's guns * stick to one's knitting * stick up * stick up for * stick up to * stick with * stickySee also
* stick in one's craw * stick one's neck out * stick one's oar in * stick out like a sore thumb * stick-sling * stick to one's guns * stick-up * stick up for * stuck upAdjective
(er)- A non-stick''']] pan. A [[stick plaster, '''stick plaster.
- A sticker''' type of glue. The '''stickest kind of gum.
Usage notes
* The adjective is more informal than nonstandard due to the prevalence of examples such as "non-stick pan" or "stick plaster". * The comparative and superlative remain nonstandard (vs. (stickier) and (stickiest)) and are sometimes seen inbetween quotation marks to reflect it.Derived terms
* non-stick, nonstick * stick note * stick plasterEtymology 3
Possibly a metaphorical use of the first etymology ("twig, branch"), possibly derived from the Yiddish schtick.Noun
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