stall

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /stɔːl/    美 /stɔl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. A compartment for a single animal in a stable or cattle shed. countable
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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 [...]
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. 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.
  10. A seat in a church, especially one next to the chancel or choir, reserved for church officials and dignitaries.
  11. 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; […]
  12. A sheath to protect the finger.
  13. The space left by excavation between pillars.
  14. A parking stall; a space for a vehicle in a parking lot or parkade.
  15. Synonym of stallsman (“an accomplice”). obsolete
    — The "super" or watch is passed to a stall, who hurries away, while the "dip" continues on the car. No sign of recognition passes between the members of the mob when at work.
动词 v.
  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. To fatten.
    — to stall cattle
  4. To employ delaying tactics; to stall for time. intransitive
    — Soon it became clear that she was stalling to give him time to get away.
  5. 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.
  6. To come to a standstill. intransitive
    — On the long 1 in 100 ascent from Staveley to Heath she nearly stalled, and having taken 67¼ min. to cover the 38.2 miles to Nottingham instead of the 51 min. scheduled she gave up the ghost, and came off the train.
  7. 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."
  8. To place in an office with the customary formalities; to install.
    — Deck'd in thy rights , as thou art stall'd in mine
  9. To forestall; to anticipate.
    — This is not to be staled by my report, This only must be told: […]
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. To plunge into mire or snow so as not to be able to get on; to set; to fix.
    — to stall a cart
  14. To stop suddenly. intransitive
  15. To cause the engine of a manual-transmission car or truck to stop by going too slowly for the selected gear. transitive
  16. To be stuck, as in mire or snow; to stick fast. obsolete
  17. To be tired of eating, as cattle. obsolete

词形变化

stalls plural stalls present,singular,third-person stalling participle,present stalled participle,past stalled past stalls plural stalls present,singular,third-person stalling participle,present stalled participle,past stalled past

词汇关系

近义词
delay postpone put off penelopize procrastinate
衍生词
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词源

词源 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.
词源 2
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”).
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