halt
10 definitions found
halt - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Halt \Halt\ (h[add]lt),
3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth.
[Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Halt \Halt\ (h[add]lt), n. [Formerly alt, It. alto, G. halt, fr.
halten to hold. See Hold.]
A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of
progress.
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Without any halt they marched. --Clarendon.
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[Lovers] soon in passion's war contest,
Yet in their march soon make a halt. --Davenant.
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Halt \Halt\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Halted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Halting.]
1. To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease
progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come
to a stop; to stand still.
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2. To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to
hesitate; to be uncertain.
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How long halt ye between two opinions? --1 Kings
xviii. 21.
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Halt \Halt\ (h[add]lt), v. t. (Mil.)
To cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the general halted
his troops for refreshment.
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Halt \Halt\, a. [AS. healt; akin to OS., Dan., & Sw. halt, Icel.
haltr, halltr, Goth. halts, OHG. halz.]
Halting or stopping in walking; lame.
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Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt,
and the blind. --Luke xiv.
21.
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Halt \Halt\, n.
The act of limping; lameness.
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Halt \Halt\, v. i. [OE. halten, AS. healtian. See Halt, a.]
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1. To walk lamely; to limp.
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2. To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective.
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The blank verse shall halt for it. --Shak.
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halt - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :
halt
adj 1: disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a
game leg" [syn: crippled, halt, halting, lame,
gimpy, game]
n 1: the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the
negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during
the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled
him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his
seat" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay,
stop, stoppage]
2: the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the
bottom of the hill" [syn: stop, halt]
3: an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or
movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze" [syn:
freeze, halt]
v 1: cause to stop; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress";
"halt the presses" [syn: halt, hold, arrest]
2: come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped
in front of a store window" [syn: stop, halt] [ant: get going
, go, start]
3: stop from happening or developing; "Block his election";
"Halt the process" [syn: stop, halt, block, kibosh]
4: stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "stem
the tide" [syn: stem, stanch, staunch, halt]
halt - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :
Halt
lame on the feet (Gen. 32:31; Ps. 38:17). To "halt between two
opinions" (1 Kings 18:21) is supposed by some to be an
expression used in "allusion to birds, which hop from spray to
spray, forwards and backwards." The LXX. render the expression
"How long go ye lame on both knees?" The Hebrew verb rendered
"halt" is used of the irregular dance ("leaped upon") around the
altar (ver. 26). It indicates a lame, uncertain gait, going now
in one direction, now in another, in the frenzy of wild leaping.
halt - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
295 Moby Thesaurus words for "halt":
abandon, abort, afterthought, amble, arrest, arrestation, bad,
barge, belay, bell, bind, blind alley, block, blockage, bowl along,
box, brake, break, breath, breather, breathing place,
breathing space, breathing spell, breathing time, bring to,
bring up, bring up short, bundle, bureaucratic delay, calm,
calm down, cancel, castrated, cease, cease fire, cessation, check,
checkmate, cigarette break, close, clump, cocktail hour,
coffee break, come up short, conclude, corner, cower, crippled,
cul-de-sac, curb, cut it out, cut short, cutoff, dally, dam,
dawdle, dead end, dead set, dead stand, dead stop, dead-end street,
deadlock, debarment, delay, delayage, delayed reaction, desist,
detention, determent, deterrence, die down, dillydally, disabled,
discontinue, discouragement, dodder, double take, downtime, drag,
dragging, draw rein, draw up, drop it, dwindle, dying down, ebb,
ebbing, emasculated, end, endgame, ending, enforced respite,
estoppel, extremity, falter, fetch up, final whistle, flag,
flounce, foot, footslog, forbiddance, foreclosure, forestalling,
freeze, full stop, game, give, give over, goof off, grinding halt,
gun, halting, hamstrung, handicapped, hang fire, hang-up,
happy hour, haul up, have done with, haw, hem, hem and haw,
hesitate, hindrance, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hobbling, hold,
holdup, hole, hop, hum, hum and haw, impasse, incapacitated,
interim, interlude, intermission, jam, jog, jolt, jump,
knock it off, lag, lagging, lame, lay off, leave off, letup, limp,
limping, linger, lock, lockout, logjam, loiter, lollygag, lull,
lumber, lunge, lurch, maimed, mammer, mince, molder, moratorium,
obstruction, obviation, pace, pacify, paddle, paperasserie, pause,
peg, piaffe, piaffer, plod, prance, preclusion, prevention,
prohibition, pull up, put paid to, quiesce, quiet, quieten, quit,
quiver, rack, recess, red tape, red-tapeism, red-tapery, refrain,
relinquish, renounce, reprieve, respite, rest, retardance,
retardation, roll, sashay, saunter, scrub, scuff, scuffle, scuttle,
shake, shamble, shilly-shally, shuffle, sidle, single-foot,
sit-down strike, skip, slink, slither, slog, slouch, slow down,
slow-up, slowdown, slowness, soothe, spavined, spell, stagger,
stalemate, stalk, stall, stammer, stamp, stand, standoff,
standstill, stay, stay of execution, stem, stem the tide, stick,
stillstand, stomp, stop, stop cold, stop dead, stop short,
stoppage, stopping, straddle, straggle, stride, strike, stroll,
strut, stumble, stump, stutter, stymie, subside, subsidence,
surcease, suspension, swagger, swing, tarry, tea break, teeter,
terminate, termination, tie-up, time lag, time out, tittup, toddle,
totter, trail, traipse, tranquilize, tremble, trip, trudge, waddle,
wait, walkout, wamble, wane, waning, waste time, wiggle, wobble,
work stoppage, wrap up
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