Stall vs. Store — What's the Difference?

A booth, cubicle, or stand used by a vendor, as at a market.

A stock or supply reserved for future use

A compartment for one domestic animal in a barn or shed.

A place where merchandise is offered for sale; a shop.

A small compartment

Stores Supplies, especially of food, clothing, or arms.

An enclosed seat in the chancel of a church.

A place where commodities are kept; a warehouse or storehouse.

A pew in a church.

A great quantity or number; an abundance.

Chiefly British A seat in the front part of a theater.

To reserve or put away for future use.

A space marked off, as in a garage, for parking a motor vehicle.

To fill, supply, or stock.

A protective sheath for a finger or toe.

To deposit or receive in a storehouse or warehouse for safekeeping.

The sudden, unintended loss of power or effectiveness in an engine.

(Computers) To copy (data) into memory or onto a storage device, such as a hard disk.

A condition in which an aircraft or airfoil experiences an interruption of airflow resulting in loss of lift and a tendency to drop.

A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

A ruse or tactic used to mislead or delay.

A supply held in storage.

To put or lodge in a stall.

(mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.

To maintain in a stall for fattening

Memory.

To halt the motion or progress of; bring to a standstill.

A great quantity or number; abundance.

To cause (a motor or motor vehicle) accidentally to stop running.

A head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing); a store cattle beast.

To cause (an aircraft) to go into a stall.

(transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.

To live or be lodged in a stall. Used of an animal.

Contain.

To stick fast in mud or snow.

Have the capacity and capability to contain.

To come to a standstill

To write (something) into memory or registers.

To stop running as a result of mechanical failure

That which is accumulated, or massed together; a source from which supplies may be drawn; hence, an abundance; a great quantity, or a great number.

To lose forward flying speed, causing a stall. Used of an aircraft.

A place of deposit for goods, esp. for large quantities; a storehouse; a warehouse; a magazine.

To employ delaying tactics against

Any place where goods are sold, whether by wholesale or retail; a shop.

To employ delaying tactics

Articles, especially of food, accumulated for some specific object; supplies, as of provisions, arms, ammunition, and the like; as, the stores of an army, of a ship, of a family.

(countable) A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed.

Accumulated; hoarded.

A stable; a place for cattle.

To collect as a reserved supply; to accumulate; to lay away.

A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.

To furnish; to supply; to replenish; esp., to stock or furnish against a future time.

(countable) A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc.

To deposit in a store, warehouse, or other building, for preservation; to warehouse; as, to store goods.

A very small room used for a shower or a toilet.

A mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services;

(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.

A supply of something available for future use;

(Germanic paganism) An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow.

An electronic memory device;

A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.

A depository for goods;

A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.

Keep or lay aside for future use;

A sheath to protect the finger.

Find a place for and put away for storage;

(mining) The space left by excavation between pillars.

(Canadian) A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.

An action that is intended to cause, or actually causes, delay.

(aeronautics) Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded, normally occurring due to low airspeed.

(transitive) To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.

To fatten.

(obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a stall; to dwell.

To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.

To forestall; to anticipate.

To keep close; to keep secret.

(transitive) To employ delaying tactics against.

(intransitive) To employ delaying tactics; to stall for time.

(intransitive) To come to a standstill.

(transitive) To cause to stop making progress; to hinder; to slow down; to delay or forestall.

To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.

To cause to exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.

To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.

To stop suddenly.

To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car or truck to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear.

(obsolete) To be stuck, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.

(obsolete) To be tired of eating, as cattle.

A stand; a station; a fixed spot; hence, the stand or place where a horse or an ox is kept and fed; the division of a stable, or the compartment, for one horse, ox, or other animal.

A stable; a place for cattle.

A small apartment or shed in which merchandise is exposed for sale; as, a butcher's stall; a bookstall.

A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.

A seat in the choir of a church, for one of the officiating clergy. It is inclosed, either wholly or partially, at the back and sides. The stalls are frequently very rich, with canopies and elaborate carving.

In the theater, a seat with arms or otherwise partly inclosed, as distinguished from the benches, sofas, etc.

The space left by excavation between pillars. See Post and stall, under Post.

A covering or sheath, as of leather, horn, of iron, for a finger or thumb; a cot; as, a thumb stall; a finger stall.

To put into a stall or stable; to keep in a stall or stalls; as, to stall an ox.

To fatten; as, to stall cattle.

To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.

To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix; as, to stall a cart.

To forestall; to anticipate.

To keep close; to keep secret.

To live in, or as in, a stall; to dwell.

To kennel, as dogs.

To be set, as in mire or snow; to stick fast.

To be tired of eating, as cattle.

A compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed

Small area set off by walls for special use

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;

Small individual study area in a library

A tactic used to mislead or delay

Postpone doing what one should be doing;

Come to a stop;

Deliberately delay an event or action;

Put into, or keep in, a stall;

Experience a stall in flight, of airplanes

Cause an airplane to go into a stall

Cause an engine to stop;