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Stall

//stɔl// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun

1
A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed. countable
2
An action that is intended to cause, or actually causes, delay.
"His encounters with security, reception, the secretary, and the assistant were all stalls until the general manager's attorney arrived."
3
a tactic used to mislead or delay wordnet
4
A stable; a place for cattle.
"His Fellow ſought what Lodging he could find: At laſt he found a Stall where oxen ſtood, And that he rather choſe than lie abroad."
5
Loss of lift due to an airfoil's critical angle of attack being exceeded, normally occurring due to low airspeed.
"The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of this accident was the asymmetric stall and the ensuing roll of the aircraft because of the uncommanded retraction of the left wing outboard leading edge slats and the loss of stall warning and slat disagreement indication systems resulting from maintenance-induced damage leading to the separation of the No. 1 engine and pylon assembly at a critical point during takeoff. The separation resulted from damage by improper maintenance procedures which led to failure of the pylon structure."

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6
small area set off by walls for special use wordnet
7
A bench or table on which small articles of merchandise are exposed for sale.
"Now he goes on, and ſings of fairs and ſhows, For ſtill new fairs before his eyes aroſe. How pedlars' ſtalls with glitt'ring toys are laid, The various fairings of the country maid."
8
small individual study area in a library wordnet
9
A small open-fronted shop, for example in a market, food court, etc. countable
"He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days [...]"
10
a booth where articles are displayed for sale wordnet
11
A small partitioned space or roomlet used for a shower or a toilet.
"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."
12
a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed wordnet
13
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. countable
14
seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater wordnet
15
An Heathen altar, typically an indoor one, as contrasted with a more substantial outdoor harrow. Germanic
"In a private rite, a ring is drawn on the ground around a harrow or before an indoor stall."
16
a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge wordnet
17
A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
18
A church office that entitles the incumbent to the use of a church stall.
"He had battled like a man, and gotten a man's reward — no silver tea-pots or salvers, with flowery inscriptions setting forth his virtues and the appreciation of a genteel parish; no fat living or stall, for which he never looked, and didn't care; […]"
19
A sheath to protect the finger.
20
The space left by excavation between pillars.
21
A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.

Verb

1
To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall. transitive
"to stall an ox"
2
To employ delaying tactics against. transitive
"He stalled the creditors as long as he could."
3
deliberately delay an event or action wordnet
4
To fatten.
"to stall cattle"
5
To employ delaying tactics; to stall for time. intransitive
"Soon it became clear that she was stalling to give him time to get away."

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6
come to a stop wordnet
7
To live in, or as if in, a stall; to dwell. obsolete
"I must perforce Haue ſhewne to thee ſuch a declining day, Or looke on thine: we could not ſtall together In the whole world."
8
To come to a standstill. intransitive
"[...] 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."
9
cause an engine to stop wordnet
10
To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
"Deck'd in thy rights , as thou art stall'd in mine"
11
To cause to stop making progress; to hinder; to slow down; to delay or forestall. transitive
"In Barnhouse's mind, their screwed-up childhoods have left homosexuals stalled at an adolescent point in the normal progression of psycho-social development. Unable to attain the "normal" gender identification and separation from mother, they are forced to lead incomplete lives and thus remain "immature.""
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cause an airplane to go into a stall wordnet
13
To forestall; to anticipate.
"This is not to be staled by my report, This only must be told: […]"
14
To exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift. intransitive
"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."
15
experience a stall in flight, of airplanes wordnet
16
To keep close; to keep secret.
"You haue diſcharg'd this honeſtlie, keepe it to your ſelfe, […] praie you leaue mee, ſtall this in your boſome, and I thanke you for your honeſt care: I will ſpeake with you further anon."
17
To cause to exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift. transitive
"The pilot stalled the plane by pulling the nose up too high at a slow airspeed."
18
put into, or keep in, a stall wordnet
19
To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.
"to stall a cart"
20
postpone doing what one should be doing wordnet
21
To stop suddenly. intransitive
22
To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car or truck to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear. transitive
23
To be stuck, as in mire or snow; to stick fast. obsolete
24
To be tired of eating, as cattle. obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English stall, stalle, from Old English steall (“standing place, position”), from Proto-Germanic *stallaz, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to place, put, post, stand”). Cognate with French étal, Italian stallo, German Stall, Swedish stall.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

From Middle English stallen (“to abide, dwell, place in a location, stop, come to a standstill”), partly from Old French estaler, ultimately from the same origin as Etymology 1 (see above); and partly from Middle English stalle (“fixed position, stall”).

Etymology 4

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