stalling
拖延时间,缓兵之计,拖延,拖延症
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Definitions
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- : a compartment in a stable or shed for the accommodation of one animal.
- : a stable or shed for horses or cattle.
- : a booth or stand in which merchandise is displayed for sale, or in which some business is carried on: a butcher's stall; a bookstall.
- : carrel.
- : one of a number of fixed enclosed seats in the choir or chancel of a church for the use of the clergy.
- : a pew.
- : any small compartment or booth for a specific activity or housing a specific thing: a shower stall.
- : a rectangular space marked off or reserved for parking a car or other vehicle, as in a parking lot.
- : an instance or the condition of causing an engine, or a vehicle powered by an engine, to stop, especially by supplying it with a poor fuel mixture or by overloading it.
- : Aeronautics. an instance or the condition of causing an aircraft to fly at an angle of attack greater than the angle of maximum lift, causing loss of control and a downward spin.Compare critical angle.
- : a protective covering for a finger or toe, as various guards and sheaths or one finger of a glove.
- : British. a chairlike seat in a theater, separated from others by arms or rails, especially one in the front section of the parquet.
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- : to assign to, put, or keep in a stall or stalls, as an animal or a car.
- : to confine in a stall for fattening, as cattle.
- : to cause to stop, especially by supplying it with a poor fuel mixture or overloading it.
- : Aeronautics. to put into a stall.to lose control of or crash from so doing.
- : to bring to a standstill; check the progress or motion of, especially unintentionally.
- : to cause to stick fast, as in mire or snow.
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- : to be stalled or go through the process of stalling.
- : to come to a standstill; be brought to a stop.
- : to stick fast, as in mire.
- : to occupy a stall, as an animal.
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Examples
The 28-year-old Saudi pilot had no idea her friend planned to practice stalls that day during her first flight on such a plane.
I paid for a draft of red ale and walked to a corner a few meters removed from the food stalls, to the left of a vacated bandstand.
These event-specific behaviors might help explain why Weed found clusters associated with farmers’ markets, where people crowd around the stalls, but not with people just hanging out in the park.
The prospect of professionals wandering through an endless sea of sponsorship stalls in search of a business solution is wildly far-fetched.
You can save space in a bathroom by eschewing a tub in favor of a stall shower.
Specifically, the pilots got themselves into a high altitude stall, where the wings lose the capacity to provide lift.
One report has the AirAsia Airbus flying at a speed very close to what would trigger a low speed stall.
He was waiting for the man to exit the neighboring stall, feeling ever more riled, when he decided to kick the door down.
In Oregon, public restrooms can only be so public; two people must never use the same stall.
But there are deep suspicions in Kiev that the Russians only went to Geneva to stall threatened Western economic sanctions.
Herein he found an empty stall that was dark enough not to be seen, and still afforded sufficient light to read in.
Like the cobbler's stall in the old song, it served the present occupants for "kitchen and parlour and all."
Some shelves had been put up along one side of the stall, and they were piled with a lot of grimy-looking books.
Crash went the collection of literature, and Welcome fell back on the floor of the stall, half-covered by a deluge of books.
If we go to the book-stall keepers we shall certainly find that he is dead, or has set his house on fire, or run away.