stonewall
IPA: stˈoʊnwɔɫ
Root Word: Stonewall
noun
- (historical) A series of riots in 1969 New York City, beginning with the patrons of the gay bar "The Stonewall Inn" resisting police arrest, which marked the beginning of the militant gay rights movement.
- A nickname of Confederate general Thomas Jonathan Jackson.
- (chess) A formation in chess (a variation of the Queen's Pawn Game) in which white plays pawns to d4 and several other positions, requiring black to react energetically (see Stonewall Attack).
- Any of several places:
- A town in Manitoba, Canada.
- A former gold-mining town in California, in the Cuyamaca Mountains.
- A town in Louisiana.
- A town in Mississippi.
- A town in North Carolina.
- A town in Oklahoma.
- An unincorporated community in Texas.
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
- (idiomatic) An obstruction.
- (idiomatic) A refusal to cooperate.
- (idiomatic, historical) An alcoholic drink popular in colonial America, consisting of apple cider (or sometimes applejack) mixed with rum (or sometimes gin or whisky).
- Alternative letter-case form of stonewall (“alcoholic drink”) [(idiomatic) An obstruction.]
- Alternative form of stone wall (“wall made of stone”). [A wall made from stone.]
verb
- (transitive) To obstruct.
- (transitive, intransitive, informal) To refuse to answer or cooperate, especially in supplying information.
adjective
- (Britain, idiomatic) Certain, definite.
stone wall
IPA: stˈoʊnwˈɔɫ
noun
- A wall made from stone.
verb
- Alternative form of stonewall. [(transitive) To obstruct.]
Examples of "stonewall" in Sentences
- She often stonewalls people.
- It is rude to stonewall others.
- Why is he constantly stonewalling
- Could you please stop stonewalling
- I asked him to stonewall on purpose.
- People are annoyed at her stonewalling.
- It is his habit to stonewall during the conversation.
- I have never quite seen such obstinacy and stonewalling.
- Dan won the Stonewall Award for Entertainer of the Year in 2007.
- That is the context, and the Stonewall awards protest is the background.
- It looks as though King County elections officials "stonewall" just about everyone.
- Ipswich boss Jewell believed his side had been denied what he called a "stonewall penalty".
- Unless something radical changes, it still doesn’t appear that this stonewall will be a very effective defense.
- Nevertheless, liberals are furious about what they're calling a stonewall tactic, reminiscent of the Bush-Cheney years.
- If you run into a "stonewall" with a question or investigation, that stonewall is now wider and more impenetrable than it was 40 years ago.
- Salazar now has someone in Sheriff Mink who is willing to help him instead of the term stonewall in his efforts to get to some of these answers.
- I would agree that groups such as stonewall should be allowed to campaign thereby improving the attitudes of people, I just disagree that there moral views ought to be legally enforced by forcing those who disagree with them to associate with people they do not approve of.
- Dr. Carol Swain Lewis, an English teacher at Three Rivers who served as a judge, said it was "heart wrenching" to watch some of the students seemingly rush through the words, but she picked up that she had to keep a "stonewall" face on the panel, as to not make it visible that she was emotionally involved.
Examples of "stone-wall" in Sentences
- He should be safe in the stone-wall chamber, for a little while at least.
- Worse still, the heavy adobe could bring the original stone-wall stubs toppling down.
- In Britain he built (122127) 80 miles of road, ditches, and stone-wall from the Tyne to the Solway.
- A little farther on, was a strong stone-wall, not high, but very thick, extending in the same manner.
- He knows the maladministration will resit and stone-wall it … anything to drag out the case as long as possible.
- The GOP has made their decision, and that is to stone-wall for two more years. hoping to stymie any meaningful economic recovery, in an attempt to sweep back into power.
- Then when she became McCain's running mate, she reversed course and started stone-walling (and told her people to stone-wall) in an obvious attempt to run the clock out between now and the November election.
- The post also outlines how alarmist control of peer-review journals was used to stone-wall these requirements by posting data in obscure places with no announcement, releasing incomplete data, providing no explaination for data encoding, and using obsolete formats.
- Politicians fixate on plans to alleviate poverty and at the same time create the very infrastructures, policies and institutions to enhance corrupt opportunities ... actual honesty gains zero ratings in recruitment and appointments where 'palanka' and the benefit of 'padrinos' eliminates any concern for actual job qualifications or competence in government officials who will consequently stone-wall any effort to cause waves or disturb their comfortable feather-bedding.