What does Halt mean?
Definitions for Halt
hɔlthalt
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Halt.
Princeton's WordNet
arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppagenoun
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"
stop, haltnoun
the event of something ending
"it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill"
freeze, haltadjective
an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement
"a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze"
crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy, gameverb
disabled in the feet or legs
"a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"
halt, hold, arrestverb
cause to stop
"Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses"
stop, haltverb
come to a halt, stop moving
"the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window"
stop, halt, block, kiboshverb
stop from happening or developing
"Block his election"; "Halt the process"
stem, stanch, staunch, haltverb
stop the flow of a liquid
"staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Haltadjective
Lame; crippled.
Etymology: from the verb
Bring in hither the poor, the maimed, the halt, and the blind. Lu. xiv. 21.
Haltnoun
Etymology: from the verb.
The heav’nly bands
Down from a sky of jasper lighted now
In Paradise, and on a hill made halt. John Milton, Paradise Lost.Scouts each coast light armed scour
Each quarter to descry the distant foe,
Where lodg’d, or whether fled, or if for fight
In motion, or in halt. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. vi.Without any halt they marched between the two armies. Edward Hyde, b. viii.
He might have made a halt ’till his foot and artillery came up to him. Edward Hyde, b. ii.
To Haltverb
Etymology: healtt, Saxon, lame; healtan , to limp.
And will she yet debase her eyes
On me, that halt and am mis-shapen thus? William Shakespeare, R. III.Thus inborn broils the factions would engage,
Or wars of exil’d heirs, or foreign rage,
’Till halting vengeance overtook our age. Dryden.Edmund Spenser himself affects the obsolete,
And Philip Sidney’s verse halts ill on Roman feet. Alexander Pope.I was forced to halt in this perpendicular march. Addison.
How long halt ye between two opinions? 1. Kings xviii.
Here’s a paper written in his hand;
A halting sonnet of his own pure brain,
Fashion’d to Beatrice. William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing.All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him. Jer.
ChatGPT
halt
To halt means to stop, pause, cease, or suspend movement, action or progress. It can also refer to a sudden stop or pause of a process, system, series of events, or an operation. It is used in both physical and abstract contexts.
Webster Dictionary
Halt
3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth
Haltnoun
a stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress
Haltverb
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
Haltverb
to stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain
Haltverb
to cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the general halted his troops for refreshment
Haltadjective
halting or stopping in walking; lame
Haltnoun
the act of limping; lameness
Haltadjective
to walk lamely; to limp
Haltadjective
to have an irregular rhythm; to be defective
Etymology: [OE. halten, AS. healtian. See Halt, a.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Halt
hawlt, v.i. to stop from going on: (mil.) to stop in a march.—v.t. to stop.—n. (mil.) a stop in marching. [Orig. a Ger. military term, halt, stoppage.]
Halt
hawlt, n. a halting or limping.—adj. lame, crippled, limping.—v.i. to be lame, to limp: to walk unsteadily: to vacillate: to proceed lamely or imperfectly, to be at fault, as in logic, rhythm, &c.—ns. Halt′ing; Halt′ing-place. [A.S. halt, healt; Dan. and Sw. halt.]
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
halt
(Fr. halte). The discontinuance of the march of any body of men, armed or unarmed, under military direction. Frequent halts are necessary for the purpose of resting troops during their progress through a country, or to render them fresh and active previous to any warlike undertaking. It is likewise a word of command in familiar use. See March.
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
HALT
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Halt is ranked #48347 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Halt surname appeared 437 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Halt.
91.5% or 400 total occurrences were White.
4.5% or 20 total occurrences were Black.
2% or 9 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.1% or 5 total occurrences were Asian.
British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Halt' in Nouns Frequency: #2730
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Halt' in Verbs Frequency: #857
Anagrams for Halt »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Halt in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Halt in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of Halt in a Sentence
Rightfully, they should stop, the ministry of ports will take necessary action to halt the work until this inquiry is done.
We find it pretty shocking that they are choosing to halt all marriages because they don’t want to do gay marriages.
It's directly linked to the US-China trade war, the implication is that China will completely halt all future imports of Xu Limin soybeans.
Even so, Russia’s war in Ukraine offers Biden an opportunity, in Brinkley’s view, to convince Americans of the importance of a united transatlantic alliance and to emphasize that he brought allies together to stand against Putin’s assault, it’s a key moment to take the stage as the global leader who is going to halt authoritarianism by building up our armed forces. He somehow has to make people really feel like ‘the USA is back,’ that democracy is eternal.
Nearly 40 state constitutions have similar constitutional provisions that opponents of school choice have tried to invoke in the past to halt school choice programs in their tracks.
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Translations for Halt
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- وقفArabic
- Haltestelle, rasten, Pause, Halt, stoppen, anhalten, Blockierung, Halteplatz, stocken, zögernGerman
- haltigi, trajnhaltejo, lami, halti, haltoEsperanto
- parar, altoSpanish
- مکثPersian
- seisauttaa, seisahtua, pysähdys, lopettaminen, seisake, loppu, pysähtyä, pysähtyminen, pysäyttääFinnish
- halterFrench
- դադարArmenian
- fermareItalian
- 停止する, 休止する, 押し止める, ためらう, さまたげるJapanese
- urutūMāori
- bremse, avvente, nøle, stoppeNorwegian
- apeadeiroPortuguese
- sayayQuechua
- хромать, останавливатьRussian
- stoppa, haltaSwedish
- நிறுத்தம்Tamil
- tạm dừng lạiVietnamese
- 停Chinese
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