English Dictionary

stall

/stɔːl/

verb

(transitive) To employ delaying tactics against. / (intransitive) To employ delaying tactics; to stall for time. / (intransitive) To come to a standstill.

He tried to stall the negotiations by bringing up irrelevant issues.

意味（1）

(transitive) To employ delaying tactics against.

He stalled the creditors as long as he could.

意味（2）

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

Soon it became clear that she was stalling to give him time to get away.

意味（3）

(intransitive) To come to a standstill.

… the 4-4-0 unhappily stalled after a stop on Reading Old Bank with its eight-coach load and the Reading Up Line pilot, a Hall, had to bank the train into Reading General.

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

(intransitive, aviation) To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.

The thrust levers were advanced, the first officer selected the go-around mode for the flight director, and he started to increase the pitch of the aircraft to the command bar indications, 10 degrees nose up. About one second after the first officer acknowledged the go-around, the stick shaker (stall warning) activated. As the aircraft reached 10 degrees nose up, about one and one-half seconds after the stick shaker activated, the captain called flaps and selected them to the go-around setting, the warbler tone associated with the stall protection system (SPS) sounded, and the aircraft stalled aerodynamically. The aircraft rolled right to approximately 55 degrees of bank, and the right wing tip contacted the runway about 2700 feet from the threshold and 45 feet left of the centre line, the right wing tip bending upwards about four feet from the tip.

意味（6）

(transitive, aviation) To cause to exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.

The pilot stalled the plane by pulling the nose up too high at a slow airspeed.

意味（7）

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

to stall a cart

意味（8）

(intransitive, of an engine) To stop suddenly.

意味（9）

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

意味（10）

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

意味（11）

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