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HallNoun1. An interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open; "the elevators were at the end of the hall". 2. A large entrance or reception room or area. 3. A large room for gatherings or entertainment; "lecture hall"; "pool hall". 4. Living quarters at a college or university where students live. 5. The large room of a manor or castle. 6. English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943). 7. United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924). 8. United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914). 9. United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871). 10. : United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907). 11. : a large and imposing house. 12. : a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research; "halls of learning". 13. : a large building for meetings or entertainment. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Hall" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a manor", "a hall". |
Date "hall" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Bible | Hall (Gr. aule, Luke 22:55; R.V., "court"), the open court or quadrangle belonging to the high priest's house. In Matt. 26:69 and Mark 14:66 this word is incorrectly rendered "palace" in the Authorized Version, but correctly "court" in the Revised Version. In John 10:1,16 it means a "sheep-fold." In Matt. 27:27 and Mark 15:16 (A.V., "common hall;" R.V., "palace") it refers to the proetorium or residence of the Roman governor at Jerusalem. The "porch" in Matt. 26:71 is the entrance-hall or passage leading into the central court, which is open to the sky. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
General | Public area in hotel or hall for assembly or registration. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Hall is a term often used to refer to several different types of room in a house or a building.This is either a long, narrow room which serves purely as an access to other rooms. This type of hall is also called a corridor, a passage, or a hallway. As an extension of this, the front entranceway or entrance room of the house is also often called the hall because it serves as an access to the main part of the house (also called the entry hall). In office buildings and larger buildings (theatres, cinemas etc), the entry room is generally known as the foyer or the atrium.
Finally, the term hall can be used to refer to some kinds of building in their entirety, for example a Meeting hall, or a Church hall. Again, presumably this is because the building serves as a gathering place and it is generally a large empty space with minimal furnishings and decoration.
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The Hall Effect (discovered by Dr. Edwin Hall in 1879) states that when a magnetic field is applied perpendicular to a thin sheet of conducting or semiconducting material (the Hall element) through which current is flowing, a potential difference (voltage) will be created on opposite edges of the Hall element. The ratio of the voltage created to the amount of current is known as the Hall resistance, and is a characteristic of the material in the element.
The Hall effect comes about due to the nature of the current flow in the conductor. Current consists of many small charge-carrying "particles" (typically electrons) which see a force due to the magnetic field. Some of these charge elements end up forced to the sides of the conductors, where they create a pool of net charge. This is only notable in larger conductors where the separation between the two sides is large enough.
One important feature of the Hall effect is that it differentiates between positive charges moving in one direction and negative charges moving in the opposite. The Hall effect offered the first real proof that electric currents in metals are carried by moving electrons, not by protons. Interestingly enough, the Hall effect also showed that in some substances (especially semiconductors), it is more appropriate to think of the current as positive "holes" moving rather than negative electrons.
By measuring the Hall voltage across the element, one can determine the strength of the magnetic field applied. So called Hall Effect Sensors are readily available from a number of different manufacturers. The most common types are analog (or Linear) Hall effect sensors, which output a voltage that is proportional to the applied magnetic field, and digital Hall effect sensors, which are often used as magnetically controlled switches -- they turn on or off when the applied magnetic field reaches a certain level. These Hall effect switches generally consist of a Hall Effect Sensor, one or more logic gates and a transistor used to switch the electric current on or off.
Alternately, by applying a known magnetic field (typically from a permanent magnet) one can use the Hall voltage to instead measure the current through the element. This can be particularly useful as it allows one to measure the current in a conductor remotely through induction. This is widely used commercially in "live wire detectors", which allow you to quickly identify which wires are carrying current without plugging into them.
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Joseph Hall (July 1, 1574 - September 8, 1656), English bishop and satirist, was born at Bristow park, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, on the 1st of July 1574.His father, John Hall, was agent in the town for Henry, earl of Huntingdon, and his mother, Winifred Bambridge, was a pious lady, whom her son compared to St Monica. Joseph Hall received his early education at the local school, and was sent (1589) to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Hall was chosen for two years in succession to read the public lecture on rhetoric in the schools, and in 1595 became fellow of his college. During his residence at Cambridge he wrote his Virgidemiarum (1597), satires written after Latin models. The claim he put forward in the prologue to be the earliest English satirist: "I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist" gave bitter offence to John Marston, who attacks him in the satires published in 1598.
The archbishop of Canterbury gave an order that Hall's satires should be burnt with works of John Marston, Marlowe, Sir John Davies and others on the ground of licentiousness, but shortly afterwards Hall's book, certainly unjustly condemned, was ordered to be "staied at the press," which may be interpreted as reprieved (see Notes and Queries, 3rd series, xii. 436).
Having taken holy orders, Hall was offered the mastership of Blundell's school, Tiverton, but he refused it in favour of the living of Halsted, Essex, to which he was presented (1601) by Sir Robert Drury. In. his parish he had an opponent in a Mr Lilly, whom he describes as a "witty and bold atheist." In 1603 he married; and in 1605 he accompanied Sir Edmund Bacon to Spa, with the special aim, he says, of acquainting himself with the state and practice of the Romish Church. At Brussels he disputed at the Jesuit College on the authentic character of modern miracles, and his inquiring and argumentative disposition more than once threatened to produce serious results, so that his patron at length requested him to abstain from further discussion. His devotional writings had attracted the notice of Henry, prince of Wales, who made him one of his chaplains (1608).
In 1612 Lord Denny, afterwards earl of Norwich, gave him the curacy of Waltham-Holy-Cross, Essex, and in the same year he received the degree of D.D. Later he received the prebend of Willenhall in the collegiate church of Wolverhampton, and in 1616 he accompanied James Hay, Lord Doncaster, afterwards earl of Carlisle, to France, where he was sent to congratulate Louis XIII on his marriage, but Hall was compelled by illness to return. In his absence the king nominated him dean of Worcester, and in 1617 he accompanied James to Scotland, where he defended the five points of ceremonial which the king desired to impose upon the Scots. In the next year he was one of the English deputies at the synod of Dort. In 1624 he refused the see of Gloucester, but in 1627 became bishop of Exeter.
He took an active part in the Arminian and Calvinist controversy in the English church. He did his best in his Via media, The Way of Peace, to persuade the two parties to accept a compromise. In spite of his Calvinistic opinions he maintained that to acknowledge the errors which had arisen in the Catholic Church did not necessarily imply disbelief in her catholicity, and that the Church of England having repudiated these errors should not deny the claims of the Roman Catholic Church on that account. This view commended itself to Charles I and his episcopal advisers, but at the same time Archbishop Laud sent spies into Hall's diocese to report on the Calvinistic tendencies of the bishop and his lenience to the Puritan and lowchurch clergy. He was, however, amenable to criticism, and his defence of the English Church, entitled Episcopacy by Divine Right (1640), was twice revised at Laud's dictation.
This was followed by An Humble Remonstrance to the High Court of Parliament (1640 and 1641), an eloquent and forceful defence of his order, which produced a retort from the syndicate of Puritan divines, who wrote under the name of "mectymnuus," and was followed by a long controversy to which Milton contributed five pamphlets, virulently attacking Hall and his early satires.
In 1641 Hall was translated to the see of Norwich, and in the same year sat on the Lords' Committee on religion. On December 30 he was, with other bishops, brought before the bar of the House of Lords to answer a charge of high treason of which the Commons had voted them guilty. They were finally convicted of an offence against the Statute of Praemunire, and condemned to forfeit their estates, receiving a small maintenance from the parliament. They were immured in the Tower from New Year to Whitsuntide, when they were released on finding bail. On his release Hall proceeded to his new diocese at Norwich, the revenues of which he seems for a time to have received, but in 1643, when the property of the "malignants" was sequestrated, Hall was mentioned by name. Mrs Hall had difficulty in securing a fifth of the maintenance (~4oo) assigned to the bishop by the parliament; they were eventually ejected from the palace, and the cathedral was dismantled. Hall retired to the village of Higham, near Norwich, where he spent the time preaching and writing until he was first forbidden by man, and at last disabled by God. He bore his many troubles and the additional burden of much bodily suffering with sweetness and patience, dying on the 8th of September 1656. Thomas Fuller says: "He was commonly called our English Seneca, for the purenesse, plainnesse, and fulnesse of his style. Not unhappy at Controversies, more happy at Comments, very good in his Characters, better in his Sermons, best of all in his Meditations."
Bishop Hall's polemical writings, although vigorous and effective, were chiefly of ephemeral interest, but many of his devotional writings have been often reprinted. It is by his early work as the censor of morals and the unsparing critic of contemporary literary extravagance and affectations that he is best known. Virgidemiarum. Sixe Bookes. First three Bookes. Of Toothlesse Satyrs. (1) Poeticall, (2) Academicall, (3) Morall (1597) was followed by an amended edition in 1598, and in the same year by Virgidemiarum. The three last bookes. Of byting Satyres (reprinted 1599).
His claim to be reckoned the earliest English satirist, even in the formal sense, cannot be justified. Thomas Lodge, in his Fig for Momus (1593), had written four satires in the manner of Horace, and John Marston and John Donne both wrote satires about the same time, although the publication was in both cases later than that of Virgidemiae. But if he was not the earliest, Hall was certainly one of the best. He writes in the heroic couplet, which he manceuvres with great ease and smoothness. In the first book of his satires (Poeticall) he attacks the writers whose verses were devoted to licentious subjects, the bombast of Tamburlaine and tragedies built on similar lines, the laments of the ghosts of the Mirror for Magistrates, the metrical eccentricities of Gabriel Harvey and Richard Stanyhurst, the extravagances of the sonneteers, and the sacred poets (Southwell is aimed at in "Now good St Peter weeps pure Helicon, And both the Mary's make a music moan"). In Book II Satire 6 occurs the well-known description of the trencher-chaplain, who is tutor and hanger. on in a country manor. Among his other satirical portraits is that of the famished gallant, the guest of "Duke Humfray." Book VI consists of one long satire on the various vices and follies dealt with in the earlier books. If his prose is sometimes antithetical and obscure, his verse is remarkably free from the quips and conceits which mar so much contemporary poetry.
He also wrote The King's Prophecie; or Weeping Joy (1603), a gratulatory poem on the accession of James I; Epistles, both the first and second volumes of which appeared in 1608 and a third in 1611; Characters of Virtues and Vices (i6o8), versified by Nahum Tate (1691); Solomons Divine Arts (1609); and, probably Mundus alter et idem sive Terra Australis antehac sem per incognita lustrata (1605? and 1607), by "Mercurius Britannicus," translated into English by John Healy (1608) as The Discovery of a New World or A Description of the Soath Indies by an English Mercury. Mundus alter is an excuse for a satirical description of London, with some criticism of the Romish church, its manners and customs, and is said to have furnished Swift with hints for Gulliver's Travels. It was not ascribed to him by name until 1674, when Thomas Hyde, the librarian of the Bodleian, identified "Mercurius Britannicus" with Joseph Hall. For the question of the authorship of this pamphlet, and the arguments that may be advanced in favour of the suggestion that it was written by Alberico Gentili, see EA Petherick, Mundus alter et idem, reprinted from the Gentleman's Magazine (July 1896).
His controversial writings, not already mentioned, include:
His devotional works include:
- A Common Apology against the Brownists (1610), in answer to John Robinson's Censorious Epistle
- The Olde Religion: A treatise, wherein is laid downe the true state of the difference betwixt the Reformed and the Romane Church; and the blame of this schisme is cast upon the true Authors (1628)
- Columba Noae olivam adferens, a sermon preached at St Paul's in 1623 - Episcopacie by Divine Right (1640)
- A Short Answer to the Vindication of Smectymnuus (1641)
- A Modest Confutation of (Milton's) Animadversions (1642).
- Holy Observations Lib. I (1607)
- Some few of David's Psalmes Metaphrased (1609)
- three centuries of Meditations and Vowes, Divine and Morall (1606, 1607, 1609), edited by Charles Sayle
- The Arte of Divine Meditation (1607)
- Heaven upon Earth, or of True Peace and Tranquillitie of Mind (1606), reprinted with some of his letters in John Wesley's Christian Library, vol. iv. (1819)
- Occasional Meditations (1630), edited by his son Robert Hall
- Henochisme; or a Treatise showing how to walk with God (1639), translated from Bishop Hall's Latin by Moses Wall
- The Devout Soul; or Rules of Heavenly Devotion (1644), often since reprinted
- The Balm of Gilead (1646, 1752)
- Christ Mysticall; or the blessed union of Christ and his Members (1647), of which General Gordon was a student (reprinted from Gordon's copy, 1893)
- Susurrium cum Deo (1659)
- The Great Mysterie of Godliness (1650)
- Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience (1649, 1650, 1654).
Authorities
The chief authority for Hall's biography is to be found in his autobiographical tracts: Observations of some Specialities of Divine Providence in the Life of Joseph Hall, Bishop of Norwich, Written with his own hand; and his Hard Measure, a reprint of which may be consulted in Dr Christopher Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography. The best criticism of his satires is to be found in Thomas Warton's History of English Poetry, vol. iv. pp. 363-409 (ed. Hazlitt, 1871), where a comparison is instituted between Marston and Hall. In 1615 Hall published A Recollection of such treatises as have been published (1615, 1617, 1621); in 1625 appeared his Works (reprinted 1627, 1628, 1634, 1662). The first complete Works appeared in 1808, edited by the Rev. Josiah Pratt. Other editions are by Peter Hall (1837) and by Philip Wynter (1863). See also Bishop Hall, his Life and Times (1826), by Rev. John Jones; Life of Joseph Hall, by Rev. George Lewis (1886); AB Grosart, The Complete Poems of Joseph Hall with introductions, etc. (1879); Satires, etc. (Early English Poets, ed. SW Singer, 1824). Many of Hall's works were translated into French, and some into Dutch, and there have been numerous selections from his devotional works.
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Synonyms: HallSynonyms: antechamber (n), anteroom (n), dorm (n), dormitory (n), entrance hall (n), foyer (n), hallway (n), lobby (n), manor hall (n), manse (n), mansion (n), mansion house (n), residence (n), residence hall (n), student residence (n), vestibule (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Abode | House, mansion, place, villa, cottage, box, lodge, hermitage, rus in urbe, folly, rotunda, tower, chateau, castle, pavilion, hotel, court, manor-house, capital messuage, hall, palace; kiosk, bungalow; casa, country seat, apartment house, flat house, frame house, shingle house, tenement house; temple. |
Amusement | Place of amusement, theater; hall, concert room, ballroom, assemblyroom; music hall. |
Conversation | Hall of audience, durbar. |
Freedom | Scope, range, play; free play, full play, free scope, full scope; free stage and no favor; swing, full swing, elbowroom, margin, rope, wide berth; Liberty Hall. |
Indication | Badge, criterion; countercheck, countermark, countersign, counterfoil; duplicate, tally; label, ticket, billet, letter, counter, check, chip, chop; dib; totem; tessera, card, bill; witness, voucher; stamp; cacher; trade mark, Hall mark. |
Mart | Noun: mart; market, marketplace; fair, bazaar, staple, exchange, change, bourse, hall, guildhall; tollbooth, customhouse; Tattersall's. |
Party | Knot, gang, clique, ring, circle, group, crowd, in-crowd; coterie, club, casino; machine; Tammany, Tammany Hall. |
Receptacle | Portico, porch, stoop, stope, veranda, patio, lanai, terrace, deck; lobby, court, courtyard, hall, vestibule, corridor, passage, breezeway; ante room, ante chamber; lounge; piazza. |
Chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement. | |
Sociality | Free and easy, hall fellow well met, familiar, on visiting terms, acquainted. |
The Drama | Theater; playhouse, opera house; house; music hall; amphitheater, circus, hippodrome, theater in the round; puppet show, fantoccini; marionettes, Punch and Judy. |
Tribunal | Senate house, town hall, theater; House of Commons, House of Lords; statehouse, townhouse. |
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Screenplays | We've got some carving knives in the abbatoir, a few more in the mess hall. We have fire axes -- nothing terribly formidable (Alien³; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett) The courtesy of your hall is somewhat lessened of late Théoden, King (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) In the hall cabinet (Three Men and a Baby; writing credit: Jim Cruickshank; James Orr) We have to go to City Hall for the marriage license and blood test (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) Mr. Hall, I was surfing the crimson wave (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling.) | |
Lyrics | Following footsteps down the hall (Ghost Of You And Me; performing artist: BBMak) They hear a voice in the hall outside (An Innocent Man; performing artist: Billy Joel) Hear your footsteps down the hall (Anytime; performing artist: Brian McKnight) Up and down the hall around the bed in our room (Check Yes Or No; performing artist: George Strait) Just remember to turn the lights off in the hall (Anything; performing artist: Jay-Z) | |
Clever | A bean supper will be held on Tuesday evening in the church hall. Music will follow. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Village Hall (1974) For the Use of the Hall (1972) Music Hall (1970) 'Wiltons' - The Handsomest Hall in Town (1970) The Kraft Music Hall (1967) | |
Song Titles | Jack Hall (performing artist: Steeleye Span) DANCE HALL DAYS (performing artist: Wang Chung ) | |
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 | The Pioneer's Hall at Ketchikan. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Chow hall at Point Pitt. Lynn Morgan, in apron, was a great cook. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Marty Golden, NMFS Pacific Recreational Fisheries Coordinator, conducting angler education outreach at the Fred Hall Fishing Tackle and Boat Show. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Lieutenants John Longenecker and Phil Hall at the hangar. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |
 | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Marsh, Limonium, and driftwood near the Hall House. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | ACE Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve. Mighty oaks and spanish moss, remnants of the ante-bellum South at Airy Hall Plantation. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | The physical oceanography hall of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco showing part of the collections. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Graylen Hall, NRCS District Conservationist in Vienna, GA, works with a forester to discuss longleaf pine plantings. Credit: Dot Paul. |
 | James Hall (left) a limited resource farmer in Lamont, FL.; Glyen Holmes, NRCS Outreach Coordinator (center); and Vonda Richardson, FAMU, Farm Management Specialist, confer on conservation techniques that Hall incorporated in the conservation plan for his. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | ARS hydrologist Doug Boyer (right) and aide Derek Hall collect water samples from a stream in a West Virginia limestone cave. The calcite formation in the background is The Haystack in McClung's Cave. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
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| "Wilson Hall (night)" by Robert Carsey Commentary: "Wilson Hall on campus of Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, USA." | "City hall nyc" by Robert Pollock Commentary: "A shot at dawn after an all-night coding session at my job. fun." |
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E. B. Hall | Remember you have not a sinew whose law of strength is not action; not a faculty of body, mind or soul, whose law of improvement is not energy. |
Joseph Hall | Perfection is the child of time. |
| He is great enough that is his own master. | |
| Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore, live every day as if it would be the last. | |
| A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. | |
| Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour. | |
Sarah J. Hale | Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | No claims or indemnities which may result from this annulment hall be charged against the Allied or Associated Powers or the Powers, States, Governments or public authorities which are released from their engagements by the present Article. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | The clock struck twelve as she passed through the hall. |
Alice in Wonderland | Carroll, Lewis | Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | They went, the Ghost and Scrooge, across the hall, to a door at the back of the house |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | So the mother and little Pearl were admitted into the hall of entrance |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The bishop ran his eyes over the hall, seemingly taking measure and making calculations |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | It seemed to him that he stood in the midst of a great hall, dark and silent save for the ticking of a great clock |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I called on the king, but he made me wait in his hall, and conducted like a man incapacitated for hospitality |
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Health | Hall KM. Functional assessment in traumatic brain injury. (references) | |
Hall, G.W., and Schwartz, R.P. (1979). White blood cell count and differential in Rocky Mountain spotted fever. (references) | ||
Hall, CD, et al. Failure of Cytosine Arabinoside Therapy of HIV-1 Associated Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy. (references) | ||
Business | Of the three, Hall is the favored location. (references) | |
Since the raid the police assigned an official to live across the hall from Fan and to monitor his activities. (references) | ||
Study USA 2001 is scheduled to be held from March 3-4, 2001 at the Convention and Exhibition Hall (COEX) in Seoul. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Paraguay | Police intervened after the protesters set fire to at least one car and tried to charge the city hall. (references) |
Russia | Mormons also have experienced trouble in obtaining permission to build and then occupy an assembly hall in Volgograd. (references) | |
Germany | A nonreligious ethics course or study hall usually is available for students not wishing to participate in religious instruction. (references) | |
Discrimination | Malta | Alleged victims of job discrimination may apply directly for relief to the Employment Commission of the first hall of the Civil Court in the appropriate jurisdiction. (references) |
Economic History | Korea | The indoor exhibition hall has a floor space of 26,446 square meters. (references) |
Lebanon | At least one show, fair, or exhibition is scheduled for each month of the year, in a variety of venues including the Forum de Beyrouth and Beirut Hall. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | They destroyed the police station, the city hall, the bank, and 10 houses. (references) |
Jamaica | In October a new remand center opened in Bumpers Hall, St. Catherine parish, which is expected to ease overcrowding in lockups. (references) | |
India | The mobs set fire to a number of buildings, including the legislative assembly hall, the chief minister's office, and the legislative speaker's residence. (references) | |
Minorities | Malaysia | Some of the demonstrators threatened to burn down the hall. (references) |
Malaysia | Senior UMNO officials have warned non-Malays against "playing with fire." In August 2000, a group of youth members of UMNO became unruly at a rally held outside a Chinese assembly hall in the wake of public comments by a Chinese association that allegedly questioned the granting of special rights and privileges for Malays. (references) | |
Russia | On April 20, activists in Rostov Velikiy picketed the proposed site for the construction of a Jehovah's Witnesses center, proclaiming their opposition to "totalitarian cults." In March the head of the local department of the Ministry of Justice and other local officials held a press conference at Nizhniy Novgorod's city hall in which they called for noncooperation with such groups as the Jehovah's Witnesses, the Moonies, and the Scientologists. (references) | |
Political Economy | Western Sahara | In mid-October a sit-in by Sahrawi women protesting economic conditions and demanding additional assistance from the Moroccan Government, began near the city hall in Smarna. (references) |
Sudan | In May authorities prevented a journalist from the Al Sahafa daily newspaper from entering the hall for coverage of National Assembly discussions on the basis that the paper had published false reports against the Assembly. (references) | |
Trade | Egypt | Moreover, an automated trading system has been installed and a new trading hall inaugurated in May 2001 in addition to the introduction of manuals for disclosure and transparency by the Capital Market Authority (CMA). (references) |
Travel | Romania | Immediately upon leaving the arrival hall (after clearing customs) there are a plethora of bootleg taxi operators. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | Upon completion of the renovation, the airport will be equipped with a public hall with more than two dozen state-of-the-art check-in stations, restaurants, shops, duty free shopping, travel services, tour-operators, departure lounges with telescoping jetways for boarding planes, and an improved transit lounge. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Gabon | In November and December, employees of the Libreville city hall went on strike to protest low salaries and poor working conditions. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamation of the press agent with a particular publicity. Public attention was once somewhat diverted from this garment to Miss Lillian Russell's refusal to wear it, and many were the conjectures as to her motive, the guess of Miss Pauline Hall showing a high order of ingenuity and sustained reflection. It was Miss Hall's belief that nature had not endowed Miss Russell with beautiful legs. This theory was impossible of acceptance by the male understanding, but the conception of a faulty female leg was of so prodigious originality as to rank among the most brilliant feats of philosophical speculation! It is strange that in all the controversy regarding Miss Russell's aversion to tights no one seems to have thought to ascribe it to what was known among the ancients as "modesty." The nature of that sentiment is now imperfectly understood, and possibly incapable of exposition with the vocabulary that remains to us. The study of lost arts has, however, been recently revived and some of the arts themselves recovered. This is an epoch of renaissances, and there is ground for hope that the primitive "blush" may be dragged from its hiding-place amongst the tombs of antiquity and hissed on to the stage. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Schieffer | Now, what happened when Oswald was shot, I was assigned to go to the City Hall where they were going to take him, from the county jail to the City Hall. And, so I was at the other place when Oswald was shot. |
Rush Limbaugh | Former President Bill Clinton took part in a town hall forum of present and former world leaders as part of the World AIDS Conference in Spain. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Two of our Founding Fathers, a Boston lawyer named Adams and a Virginia planter named Jefferson, members of that remarkable group who met in Independence Hall and dared to think they could start the world over again, left us an important lesson. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | You know, when the framers finished crafting our Constitution in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin stood in Independence Hall and he reflected on the carving of the sun that was on the back of a chair he saw. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Hall" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 54.56% of the time. "Hall" is used about 10,273 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 54.56% | 5,605 | 1,758 |
| Noun (proper) | 45.44% | 4,668 | 2,102 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10,273 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "hall" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hall | Last name | 200,000 | 26 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Hall" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a manor", "a hall". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "hall". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Hall | Male | English | A hall |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | Hunter Hall International Ltd. | Belgium | Photo Hall |
| United Kingdom | Water Hall Group plc | USA | Hall Kinion & Associates Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Hall, MT |
Expressions using "hall": arrival hall ♦ Asaph Hall ♦ assembly hall ♦ banqueting hall ♦ beer hall ♦ billiard hall ♦ booking hall ♦ Campbell Hall ♦ centre Hall ♦ ceremonial hall ♦ Charles Francis Hall ♦ Charles Martin Hall ♦ Charlotte Hall ♦ city hall ♦ cloth hall ♦ common hall ♦ concert hall ♦ conference hall ♦ cyrus Hall McCormick ♦ dance hall ♦ departure hall ♦ dining hall ♦ entrance hall ♦ exhibition hall ♦ Fort Hall ♦ G. Stanley Hall ♦ Granville Stanley Hall ♦ great hall ♦ Green Hall ♦ gym hall ♦ Hall angle ♦ Hall County ♦ Hall detector ♦ Hall effect ♦ Hall effect magnetometer ♦ hall fellow well met ♦ Hall fluxmeter ♦ Hall gaussmeter ♦ hall mark ♦ hall of audience ♦ hall of fame ♦ hall of justice ♦ hall of residence ♦ Hall Park ♦ hall pass ♦ Hall plate ♦ hall porter ♦ Hall probe ♦ hall stand ♦ Hall Summit ♦ Hall terminals ♦ Hall test ♦ hall tree ♦ hiring hall ♦ judgment hall ♦ lecture hall ♦ liberty Hall ♦ manor hall ♦ Marguerite Radclyffe Hall ♦ meeting hall ♦ mess hall ♦ Mill Hall ♦ music hall ♦ Oak Hall ♦ outer entrance hall ♦ Park Hall ♦ Perry Hall ♦ Pine Hall ♦ Pleasant Hall ♦ Radclyffe Hall ♦ reading hall ♦ residence hall ♦ Rock Hall ♦ Rural Hall ♦ sports hall ♦ study hall ♦ Tammany Hall ♦ ticket hall ♦ torus hall ♦ town hall ♦ Union Hall ♦ Waverly Hall ♦ White Hall ♦ Wilford Hall U S ♦ wool hall. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "hall": hall-based, hall-chamber, hall-corridors, Hall-craggs, hall-door, Hall-effect, hall-floor, hall-house, hall-keep, hall-landing, hall-lessness, hall-like, Hall-mark, hall-marked, hall-of-famer, hall-of-mirrors, hall-piece, hall-porter, hall-stand, hall-stool, hall-style, hall-way. | |
Ending with "hall": booking-hall, concert-hall, dance-hall, entrance-hall, Fifield-hall, music-hall, Pearce-hall, Prentice-hall. | |
Containing "hall": temperature-insensitive-Hall-constant. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
baseball hall of fame | 2,183 | gruene hall | 279 |
prentice hall | 1,798 | webster hall | 259 |
rock and roll hall of fame | 1,172 | aaron hall | 248 |
radio city music hall | 976 | hall tree | 239 |
damion hall | 758 | rock n roll hall of fame | 234 |
hall | 722 | pro football hall of fame | 223 |
hall oates | 702 | fame hall igors | 219 |
carnegie hall | 649 | kid in the hall | 217 |
city hall | 567 | bass hall | 213 |
seton hall university | 488 | hall and oat | 213 |
hall of fame | 440 | bass performance hall | 200 |
banquet hall | 430 | freedom hall | 196 |
reception hall | 376 | nfl hall of fame | 193 |
basketball hall of fame | 371 | independence hall | 190 |
seton hall | 368 | scott hall | 187 |
gabriella hall | 362 | wedding hall | 183 |
town hall | 348 | hall effect | 174 |
hockey hall of fame | 346 | country music hall of fame | 170 |
football hall of fame | 318 | national baseball hall of fame | 167 |
bug hall | 282 | cooperstown baseball hall of fame | 166 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "hall"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | hyrje (access, accession, adit, aisle, barrier, door, entrance, entry, front door, gate, gateway, hallway, incoming, induction, inflow, inflowing, ingoing, ingress, inlet, input, intake, intromission, lead in, opening, porch, portal, preamble, preface, prelude, proem, prolegomena, prologue, throat), vilë fshati, sallon (drawing room, hallway, parlor, parlour, porch, salon, saloon, sitting room), sallë (assembly room, auditorium, house, room, saloon, school, theater, theatre, ward), paradhomë (antechamber, anteroom, hallway, lobby), ndertesë publike, korridor (aisle, alleyway, hallway, passage, passageway), godinë shkollore. (various references) | |
Arabic | مبنى فخم, قاعة (chamber, room), حجرة الجلوس الريئيسية, سكن جامعى, صالة كبيرة (auditorium, saloon), رواق (arcade, corridor, gallery, hallway, lobby, loftiness, passage, porch), ردهة (anteroom, foyer, limbo, lobby, lounge, parlor, parlour, vestibule), بيت ريفي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | салон (auditorium, lounge, parlor, parlour, salon, saloon), хале, коридор (corridor, coulisse, hallway, lobby, passage, passageway, vestibule), голяма къща (residence), голяма обществена сграда, замък (chateau, mansion), зала (auditorium), антре (vestibule), палата (chamber, house). (various references) | |
Chinese | 霍尔, 大廳 , 廳 (office), 堂 (large room). (various references) | |
Czech | hala (concourse, lobby, |
