stall

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If you want to start a movement, you can't aim too high initially, or you just stall.

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a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed

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noun

a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed

noun

small area set off by walls for special use

noun

a booth where articles are displayed for sale

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for stall.

noun

a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed

noun

small area set off by walls for special use

noun

a booth where articles are displayed for sale

noun

a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge; "the plane went into a stall and I couldn't control it"

noun

seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater

noun

small individual study area in a library

noun

a tactic used to mislead or delay

verb

postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days"

verb

come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway"

verb

deliberately delay an event or action; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling"

verb

put into, or keep in, a stall; "Stall the horse"

verb

experience a stall in flight, of airplanes

verb

cause an airplane to go into a stall

verb

cause an engine to stop; "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car"

Example sentences

If you want to start a movement, you can't aim too high initially, or you just stall.

A misbehaving tab causes the whole browser to stall and you can't even kill that single tab.

Read-after-write hazards do not always result in a stall.

But as they had touched the modes, the A/T didnt engage and the speed started decreasing towards the stall.

"Co-pilot Bonin, who had been pulling back & stalling the plane during the crisis: "But what's happening?

The problem with data=ordered is that it imposes a global order, allowing one I/O stream to stall others.

My guess would be that the MOV has the effect of keeping an operand on the bypass network long enough to avoid a stall.

But then again, biting off too little can stall a movement too, as it can fail to inspire as much passionate support as a somewhat larger bite.

Modern CPU pipelines have backward propagation that can resolve RAW hazards without stalling the pipeline.

Then it becomes a matter of managing your energy, if you want to keep altitude you are going to end stalling, and if you want to keep speed youll descend too soon and too fast.

This undoubtedly contributed to confusion about whether they were actually stalled.

When, after two years of testing, Armstrong grew impatient, RCA began to use its power with the government to stall FM radios deployment generally.

These threads are painstakingly programmed to use almost every resource they possibly can at any moment, they very rarely need to stall to access memory, etc.

This is an elementary piloting mistake, which I believe is impossible to do in the Airbus since the fly-by-wire system will prevent you from placing the aircraft in a stall condition.

However, apparently the alternate law needs to be manually reset, since the plane remained in direct input mode, and thus the pilots managed to stall the plane even though its instruments had all recovered.