stall

1. (transitive) To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall.Examples: "to stall an ox"; "But Niſus hit the Turns with happier haſte, And thoughtleſs of his Friend, the Foreſt paſs'd: And Alban Plains, from Alba's Name ſo call'd, Where King Latinus then his Oxen ſtall'd."transitive

2. (obsolete) To live in, or as if in, a stall; to dwell.Examples: "I must perforce Haue ſhewne to thee ſuch a declining day, Or looke on thine: we could not ſtall together In the whole world."obsolete

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

1. (transitive) To employ delaying tactics against.Examples: "He stalled the creditors as long as he could."transitive

2. (intransitive) To employ delaying tactics; to stall for time.Examples: "Soon it became clear that she was stalling to give him time to get away."; "See the look on my face From staying too long in one place But every time I try to leave I find I keep on stalling"intransitive

3. (intransitive) To come to a standstill.Examples: "[...] 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."; "But both projects have stalled, with no indication of how they would be funded."intransitive

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

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

6. (transitive, aviation) To cause to exceed the critical angle of attack, resulting in loss of lift.Examples: "The pilot stalled the plane by pulling the nose up too high at a slow airspeed."transitive