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Halt

Definitions: Halt

Halt

Adjective

1. Disabled in the feet or legs.

Noun

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".

2. The event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill".

3. An interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement: "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze".

Verb

1. Cause to stop; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses".

2. Come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window".

3. Stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process".

4. Come to rest.

5. As of the flow of a liquid flowing, such as blood from a wound.

6. Cause to stop or halt; "Halt the engine".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "halt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Halt

DomainDefinitions

Bible

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. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

Sports & Leisure

The rider raises his hands slightly. . . flexes his wrists and opens and closes his fingers, squeezing the reins. . . the rider pushes his shoulder back and his weight down and forward in the saddle. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Halt

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.

EntrySourceExpressionField

HALT

EnglishHelp Abolish Legal TyrannySocial Sciences

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Halt

Synonyms: crippled (adj), halting (adj), lame (adj), check (n), freeze (n), hitch (n), stay (n), stop (n), stoppage (n), arrest (v), block (v), hold (v), kibosh (v), settle (v), stanch (v), staunch (v), stem (v). (additional references)
Antonym: start (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Halt

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Cessation

Verb: cease, discontinue, desist, stay, halt; break off, leave off; hold, stop, pull up, stop short; stick, hang fire; halt; pause, rest; burn out, blow out, melt down.

Intermission, remission; suspense, suspension; interruption; stop; stopping; Verb: closure, stoppage, halt; arrival. pause, rest, lull, respite, truce, drop; interregnum, abeyance; cloture.

Disease

Verb: be ill; Adjective: ail, suffer, labor under, be affected with, complain of, have; droop, flag, languish, halt; sicken, peak, pine; gasp.

Martyr to disease; cripple; " the halt the lame and the blind"; valetudinary, valetudinarian; invalid, patient, case; sickroom, sick-chamber.

Failure

Limp, halt, hobble, titubate; fall, tumble; lose one's balance; fall to the ground, fall between two stools; flounder, falter, stick in the mud, run aground, split upon a rock; beat one's head against a stone wall, run one's head against a stone wall, knock one's head against a stone wall, dash one's head against a stone wall; break one's back; break down, sink, drown, founder, have the ground cut from under one; get into trouble, get into a mess, get into a scrape; come to grief; (adversity); go to the wall, go to the dogs, go to pot; lick the dust, bite the dust; be defeated; have the worst of it, lose the day, come off second best, lose; fall a prey to; succumb; (submit); not have a leg to stand on.

Quiescence

Remain, stay; stand, lie to, ride at anchor, remain in situ, tarry, mark time; bring to, heave to, lay to; pull up, draw up; hold, halt; stop, stop short; rest, pause, anchor; cast to an anchor, come to an anchor; rest on one's oars; repose on one's laurels, take breath; stop; (discontinue).

Interjection: stop! stay! avast! halt! hold hard! whoa! hold! sabr karo!.

Adverb: at a stand; Adjective: tout court; at the halt.

Repose

Relaxation, breathing time; halt, stay, pause; (cessation); respite.

Slowness

Verb: move slowly; adVerb: creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire; (be late).

Weakness

Verb: be weak; Adjective: drop, crumble, give way, totter, tremble, shake, halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, flag, fail, have one leg in the grave.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Halt

English words defined with "halt": arrestbackfirecheckdelay, detainfreezehalted, hitch, Hoa, Holohemihedralinterfere, interpose, intervenepasteurised, pasteurizedstay, step in, Stond, stop, stoppage, stoppedTo make a stand, To pull up. (references)
Specialty definitions using "halt": abend, Affliction, Appii Forum, arresting device, arresting gearbridge tender, bring X to its kneescheck firing, comparative lifetimeDon't do that then!, DRAWBRIDGE OPERATORGee-up!, grenzhalting problem, HCFLactic Dehydrogenase Virus, loop abortion, loop break, loop interruptionMotorola 6800, Motorola 6809No net loss wetlands policyoff the trolleypartial recursive function, partially decidable problem, programmed haltSCOTCH BAITunexpected halt. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Halt" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Frisian (stop), German (foothold, footing, halt, hold, just, purchase, security, simply, stop, support), Norwegian (lame), Romanian (halt, stop), Swedish (content, fibre, fineness, gammy, halt, lame, percentage, slippery, stop, substance, value).

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Modern Usage: Halt

DomainUsage

Screenplays

But gunfire? Now, I found that that tends to bring most routines to a screeching halt. (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner)

And the party grinds to an ugly halt (Pretty Smart; writing credit: Dan Hoskins)

Movie/TV Titles

Who Grows There? Halt (1967)

Halt die Presse (1963)

Dann nenn es halt Liebe (2001)

Halt mich fest! (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Halt

DomainTitle

Books

  • Accelerated Reliability Engineering: HALT and HASS (reference)

  • Alistair MacLean's Dead Halt (reference)

  • CNO (Cornerstone Propane Partners): Warm Weather Forces Halt to Dist.; Part. Put On Auction Block [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

  • Eisenhower and Berlin, 1945: The Decision to Halt at the Elbe (reference)

  • Exhalt: Interdiction Model for Exploring Halt Capabilities in a Large Scenario Space (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  • Halt Membership : An Organization Of Americans For Legal Reform (reference)

    (more periodical examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Halt

AuthorQuotation

Marcus Tullius Cicero

If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second, or even at the third.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Halt

TitleAuthorQuote

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

In short, he desired neither halt nor haste.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

And it was the din of all these hollowsounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Halt

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

These drugs halt the stroke by dissolving the blood clot that is blocking blood flow to the brain. (references)

Cell death programs and experimental interventions to halt them were major themes of the workshop. (references)

Studies have shown that patients with shingles produce varicella-zoster antibodies but they don't halt the infection. (references)

Business

These include the need to halt and if possible reverse the run-down of the railway and waterways networks and other transport systems, growing traffic congestion on trunk roads and in towns and cities, and a rising level of automotive-related pollution. (references)

Children

Pakistan

In 1999 the English-language newspaper Dawn reported that doctors in Sindh had persuaded the Sindh health department to order a halt to the reporting of polio cases; however, polio cases were reported during the year. (references)

Civil Liberties

Algeria

There was no overt use of the Government's power to halt newspaper publications during the year. (references)

Belarus

Efforts by Catholic and Protestant groups to halt these broadcasts were rejected by SCRNA authorities and the courts. (references)

Economic History

Republic of Congo

This reform program came to a halt, however, in early June 1997 when war broke out. (references)

Georgia

The result was the stabilization of the currency, and a halt of inflation on the monetary market. (references)

Ghana

It failed, however, to halt the continuing decline in the economy; corruption flourished, and the gap between rich and poor widened. (references)

Human Rights

Eritrea

In some cases, police intervened too late to prevent the abuse or were unable to halt the abuse. (references)

Bolivia

After protesters refused orders to halt their advance, security forces used tear gas to disperse the crowd. (references)

Fiji

In August a soldier shot a disorderly, speargun-wielding man in the knee; the man was deaf and did not respond to an order to halt. (references)

Political Economy

NIGERIA

This policy was implemented in an attempt to halt the transshipment of vehicles and products from neighboring countries. (references)

Mauritania

Discrimination against women continued, and female genital mutilation (FGM) remained a serious problem despite government efforts to halt the practice. (references)

THE BAHAMAS

Kerzner also said that the labor environment (shortage of skilled workers) and massive overspending on the project's first two phases resulted in his decision to halt Phase III. (references)

Political Rights

Jordan

At year's end, the Islamic Action Front was considering legal action against the Government to halt the consolidations. (references)

Travel

Bulgaria

As in the rest of Europe, business activity grinds to a near halt during the latter part of July and most of August when many Bulgarians take their extended summer holidays. (references)

Worker Rights

Sweden

An individual also has the right to halt work in dangerous situations in order to consult a supervisor or safety representative without endangering continued employment. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Halt

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969Because we believe the nuclear danger must be narrowed, we have worked with the Soviet Union and with other nations to reach an agreement that will halt the spread of nuclear weapons.

Richard Nixon

1969-1974At the time of the bombing halt just a year ago, there was some confusion as to whether there was an understanding on the part of the enemy that if we stopped the bombing of North Vietnam they would stop the shelling of cities in South Vietnam.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981We are also working vigorously to halt the proliferation of nuclear weapons among the nations of the world which do not now have them and to reduce the deadly global traffic in conventional arms sales.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Halt

"Halt" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 65.66% of the time. "Halt" is used about 1,716 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)65.66%1,1276,770
Lexical Verb (infinitive)30.97%53111,537
Lexical Verb (base form)2.5%4352,181
Noun (proper)0.81%1493,893
Noun (common)0.06%1339,140
                    Total100.00%1,716N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Halt

The following table summarizes the usage of "halt" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
HaltLast name30027,607
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Halt

Expressions using "halt": abrupt halt at the halt bombing halt bring to a halt bring to halt call a halt come to a halt come to halt crash halt grind to a halt halt and Catch Fire halt or i shoot! halt sign halt station have come to a halt make a halt programmed halt string halt town halt unexpected halt. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "halt": spring-halt.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Halt

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

halt

48

halt testing

11

halt test

7

halt hass

6

halt dog repellent

6

trading halt

4

half halt

4

bio flea halt

4

bureau halt

4

c halt

3
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Modern Translations: Halt

Language Translations for "halt"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

stop (stop), stilhou (cease, come to a halt, stop), keer (occasion, stop, time), gaan staan (cease, come to a halt, stop), afsit (amputate, depose, deposit, deprive, dismiss, put off, shut, shut off, stop, switch, switch off, take, take off, turn off). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

qëndrim (attitude, bearing, carriage, concernment, continuance, deportment, footing, indwelling, mien, notch, poise, port, pose, posture, stand, stay, stop, waiting), ngurroj (boggle, demur, dither, falter, hang, hesitate, linger, pendulate, scruple, vacillate, wabble, waver, wobble), ndaloj (arrest, balk, ban, bar, baulk, block, break down, cease, challenge, close down, come to a halt, debar, detain, disallow, disqualify, enjoin, estop, forbid, impede, inhibit, interdict, negative, nip, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, pull up, stall, stop, tackle, withhold), ndalim (arrest, attachment, ban, cessation, defence, detention, disallowance, embargo, Forbiddance, inhibition, interdict, interdiction, juju, lid, negative, prohibition, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping, taboo), ndalesë (check, pause, rest, stand, standstill, station, stop, stopover, stoppage, stopping), ndalem (break off, call on, drop in, drop off, dwell on, lay off, light, pause, pull up, put up, stand, stand still, stop), ndal (arrest, becalm, check, close up, cut, discontinue, end, fight off, fold, heave to, hold, interrupt, pull in, pull up, rein up, shut down, stay, stem, stop), lëkundem (dangle, falter, hang, hesitate, jolt, jumble, nod, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, reel, rock, shake, shift, stagger, sway, swing, totter, vacillate, vibrate, wabble, wallow, wamble, waver, wobble), çaloj (hobble, limp). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏موقف (attitude, garage, park, parking lot, position, shutoff, situation, stance, stand, station, stop, taxi stand), ‏قطع (amputate, amputation, ax, axe, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut off, cut out, cutoff, cutting off, disconnect, discontinuance, discontinue, divide, dividing, end, exchange, fell, felling, forbid, hew, hinder from, interrupt, intersect, lop, prevent from, scission, section, segment, segmentation, separate, sever, severance, slit, split, stop, sunder, suspend, suspension, tear, terminate, traverse), ‏وقوف (pause, stand, standing, standoff, station), ‏وقف (bait, bristle, carry, cessation, check, come to a halt, devote, discontinuation, disposal, get up, pause, pull up, refraining, rise, severance, stand, stand up, stasis, stood, stoppage, stopping), ‏تلعثم (falter, fumble, gibber, hem, hum and haw, jerk, stammer, stumble, stutter, trip), ‏توقف (break off, breakdown, come to a halt, cut off, demise, discontinue, end, hinge, hitch, lapse, layover, let up, letup, obstruction, pass by, pause, pull up, quit, rest, run down, setback, stall, stand, stay, stop, stop over, stoppage, stopping, touch), ‏تعثر (flounder, stumble, trip, tumble), ‏ترنح (beat about the bush, falter, feel groggy, grogginess, limp, lurch, quiver, reel, rock, roll, shake, stagger, stumble, teeter, titubation, totter, walk with a wobble, waver, weave, welter), ‏عرج (call, cripple, hobble, lameness, limp, zigzag), ‏إستراحة طويلة, ‏أوقف (arrest, arrested, break, can, cease, challenge, check, choke, cut, cut out, discontinue, estop, garage, hinder, intercept, kill, nick, nobble, obstruct, pull in, shut off, stand, stay, stem, stop, turn off), ‏أعرج (cripple, game, gimp, halting, lame, limping), ‏ظهر ضعفا. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

стоп (stop), спри (stow it), спирка (pull in, rest, stage, station, stop), спиране (arrest, blocking, braking, catch, cease, cessation, discontinuance, dwell, hold up, holdback, interruption, letup, prevention, retention, snub, stand, standstill, stay, stop, stopping, tie up), спирам настъпление на войски, спирам (arrest, bit, block, brake, bring to, bring to rest, bring up, call a halt, cease, check, come to a halt, come to rest, cut, cut off, cut short, die, discontinue, draw up, drive up, dwell, end, fix, go phut, hang up, heave to, hold back, hold in, immobilize, impede, inhibit, intervene, keep off, kill, leave off, lock, occlude, preclude, prevent, pull in, pull up, put in, quash, quit, run down, snub, stint, stop, suppress, suspend, trammel, trig, withhold), куц (groggy, lame, limping), застой (deadlock, depression, dog days, dullness, slack, stagnation, standstill, stasis, tie up), прекъсване (adjournment, breaking, cessation, check, cutback, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, disjunction, intermission, interruption, knock, letup, outage, pause, pretermission, standstill, suspension, time out), прекъсвам (break in, break off, catch up, cease, cut, discontinue, intercept, interpose, interrupt, open, pretermit, quit, release, stop, switch off, throw out), поспирам (stop). (various references)

   

Catalan

  

parar (cease, come to a halt, stop). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

止步不前 (halted, halting). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zastavit (arrest, call a halt, call off, cease, check, discontinue, draw up, hock, immobilize, pawn, pull back, put in, quit, stay, stem, stop, suspend, tackle), zastavení (cessation, discontinuance, let up, pull back, stand, stay, stillstand, stop, suspension, tackle), zastávka (station, stop, stopover), stùj (stop), pauza (break, pause, stop). (various references)

   

Danish

  

stoppe (contain(to), stop, to darn, to mend), standse (cease, come to a halt, stop). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

stoppen (block, cease, clog, come to a halt, constipate, fill, fill in, fill up, lay down, mend, patch, patch up, picking, place, plug up, put, put down, putty, stop, stop up), stilstaan (cease, come to a halt, stagnate, stop), halthouden (cease, come to a halt, stop), afslaan (abase, abate, aberrate, beat off, cease, come to a halt, decrease, discount, flame out, go down, knock off, lower, rebate, reduce the price, reject, stall, stalling, stop, strike off, turn, turning). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

haltigi (stop), halti (come to a halt, stop). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

steðga (abide, cease, come to a halt, remain, stagnate, stay, stay over, stop). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مکث کردن (Letup, Pause), مکث (Breather, Letup, Pause, Period, Stay), لنگیدن (Clop, Hobble, Lag, Limp, Stagger), سکته (Apoplexy, Caesura), ایست کردن (Stand), ایست (Caesura, Cease, Cessation, Close, Interval, Period, Standstill, Stay, Stoppage, Suspension), درنگ (Pause, Tarry). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

pysähtyä (break off, cease, come to a halt, come to a standstill, draw up, stop). (various references)

   

French

  

halte, arrêt. (various references)

   

German

  

halt (foothold, footing, hold, just, purchase, security, simply, stop, support), haltepunkt (Ar-point, arrest point, breakpoint, stop), halten (arrest, born, borne, cease, clamp, come to a halt, cut off, give, hang around, hang onto, held, hold, hold on to, hold up, holding, keep, keep back, kept, last, maintain, make, pull up, put down, put off, retain, run, save, shut off, stay, stick, stop, take, to bite, to clamp, to grip, to hold, to retain, treat, turn off, uphold, wear well), anhalten (admonish, arrest, cease, come to a halt, continue, cut off, encourage, hail, halted, hold, hold up, keep up, last, linger, persist, persistence, pull in, put off, scold, shut off, stop, to arrest, to stop, turn off, urge). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σταματώ (arrest, balk, belay, cease, check, cheese, come to a halt, detain, draw up, give over, grind to a halt, grind to a standstill, hang on, knock off, pause, pull up, put pay to, quit, roll to a halt, stall, stay, stop, to catch, to clench, trig, waste). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לעצור (block, intercept, keep, stop), ל"עצר (be detained, cease, pull up, run down, stop), לצלוע (be lame, limp), ת וח" (pause, position, posture, rest, stance), עציר" (apprehension, prevention, retention, stand, stop, stoppage), עצור (consonant, detained, forbidden, imprisoned, repressed, restrained, shut in, whoa), צולע (cripple, gammy, lame, limping). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

pihenő (bait, easy, relaxation, respite, resting, stage), megállás (break in a journey, cease, check, jolt, pause, stand, standstill, stop, stoppage, there is no standing still). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

perhentian (cessation, stop). (various references)

   

Italian

  

fermarsi (abide, cease, come to a halt, make a pause, pause, stand, stay behind, stay over, stick around, stop, stop over), sosta (break, break period, layover, parking, pause, rest, stop, stopover, stoppage, stopping, work break), fermata (arrest, call, hold, pause, stand, stop, stopover, stoppage, stopping), fermare (arrest, check, contain, cut off, fasten, fix, hold, interrupt, pull in, pull up, shut down, stall, stay, stop, tie, to apprehend, to arrest, to seize), arresto (adjustable stop, apprehension, arrest, blowing out, bolt, capture, catch, check, click, close-down, cut out, deadlock, detention, disconnect, dog, extinction, hangup, imprisonment, latch, latching, laying down, lock, locking, outer control lever, pawl, pin, position stop, put out of operation, put out of service, rack element, ratchet, reactor shutdown, retainer, scotching, sentence of detention, shutdown, shut-down, stall, stalling, stand, standstill, stop, stoppage, taking off the line, to blow down, to blow out, to de-commission), alt (alanine aminotransferase, altitude, foothold, stop). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

停留 (stop). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ていりゅう (bottom current, stop, undercurrent). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

(Ceasing, halting, stop, stops). (various references)

   

Manx

  

stadd, scuirr (abort, adjourn, adjournment, break up, bring to, cease, ceasing, cessation, desist, discontinuance, discontinue, intermission, intermittence, leave off, let up, pause, prorogation, prorogue, pull up, respite, rest, retirement, ring off; interval, shut off, stall, stop), hault, cur sthap er, cur stadd er. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

stoppe, stopp. (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

stòp (stop), para (bird, cease, come to a halt, stop). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

althay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

zatrzymać się, zatrzymać. (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

parar (cease, clog, come to a halt, foil, parse, pave, pull up, repose, rest, stop, to stop), paragem (blowing out, checkout, flag station, intermit, location, place, reactor shutdown, shutdown, shutting down, spot, standstill, station, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping, to blow down, to blow out, to de-commission), parada (display, letup, parade, parade ground, Parry, shew, show, stake, stop, venture, wager). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

haltã (stand, stop, stoppage), halt (stop), se opri (break, cease, check, come down, come to a stand, come to a stop, draw up, let up, pause, rest, stand, stand at, stop), şchiopãta (cripple, founder, hobble, limp, stump), şedere (abidance at, indwelling, repair, residence, sitting, sojurn, stay), şontâcãi (hitch, hobbling, stump), şontorog (halting), conac (hall, manor, manor house, mansion), face o haltã, şchiop (gimp, halting, lame), se întrerupe (break down, break off, discontinue, drop, intermit, interrupt), staţie (cab stand, stage, stand, station, stop), merge clãtinându-se (waddle), opri (abate, abstain, arrest, balk, bar, baulk, break, bring to, bring to a stop, call off, circumvent, clog, collar, contain, curb, cut off, deflate, delay, discontinue, end, estop, forbear, forbid, foreclose, hinder, hold, inhibit, interdict, keep back, phase out, prohibit, pull up, put a stopper on, put out, quench, restrain, retain, shut out, snag, staunch, stay, stem, stop, strangle, subside, taboo, withhold), oprire (arrest, ban, block, call off, cease, cessation, containment, end, foreclosure, interruption, let up, obstruction, pause, prohibition, retention, stage, stall, stand, standstill, station, stay, stick, stop, stoppage, stopping), popas (bait, stand, stoppage), poposi (bait, lie, Lodge), ezita (back, boggle, crane, demur, falter, fluctuate, hang, hesitate, hobble, hold back, pause, scruple, shilly shally, stagger, stand off, stand on, sway, vacillate, veer, waver, wobble). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

остановка (cessation, hitch, lay over, layover, letup, locking, pause, pit stop, shut-down, shutdowns, shutoff, stand, stay, stop, stoppage, stopping, tie up, tie-up, trapping), останавливаться (cease, come to a standstill, come to rest, dwell, pause, repose, run down, shut down, stand, stop, stop away), останавливать (cease, hold up, intercept, shut down, stall, stanch, stop, withhold), запнуться (hesitate, stumble), привал (camp, pit stop), полустанок (way station, way-station), делать привал (call a halt). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

laparan (nm. g.v. -ain; moving with a halt), cliopach (halt in speech: cf. English clip words). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zaustaviti (arrest, block, hold up, pawl, stall, stem, stop, trap), zastoj (deadlock, hitch, hold up, malfunction, misfire, pause, slowdown, stagnancy, stagnation, stand, standstill, stasis, stoppage, tie up). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

parar (arrest, bring to, bring up, catch, cease, check, come to a halt, cut, decide, deter, end, end up, get, give up, gum up, hold up, interrupt, lead, Parry, pull up, put up, save, set, shut off, stand up, stay, stop, stop to think, stopping, switch off, tie up, trap, turn away, turn off, ward off), parada (boasting, by-pass lane, check, checking, detention, lay-by, lieu, parade, Parry, passing bay, passing place, pen, pull up, rank, relay, save, shutting down, stake, stand, standstill, stop, stoping, stoppage, stopping place, tripping, turn-out), apeadero (anchor bed, billboard, stop). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

halt (concentration, content, crippled, fibre, fineness, gammy, lame, percentage, slippery, stop, substance, value), tveka (be doubtful, dither, falter, hem, hesitate, hover, shilly shally, vacillate), stanna (abide, coagulate, come to, come to a halt, come to rest, draw up, remain, stand, stay, stay over, stay put, stop, Tarry, wait), rast (break, break period, pause, recreation, repose, rest, rest interval, rest pause, work break), anhalt. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

durmak (be, cease, come to a halt, come to a stop, discontinue, draw rein, draw up, endure, harp, hold, hold on, intermit, keep, let up, linger, pack up, pull in, pull up, remain, rest, run down, stall, stand, stay, stop). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

стій (hold on, nix, off), кульгавий (badger-legged, cripple, dot and go one, gammy, lame), вагатися (balance, boggle, deliberate, demur, dilly dally, falter, fluctuate, hesitate, hover, oscillate, pause, stagger, vacillate, vibrate, waver, whiffle), зупиняти (arrest, bar, cease, check, damp, deter, hold, hold up, nip, pull up, stanch, staunch, stop, withhold), зупинка (arrest, cessation, check, halting, standstill, stop, stoppage, stopping, tie up, trapping), платформа (dais, platform). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tập tễnh, sự tạm nghỉ (pause, truce), sự đi tập tễnh, khập khểnh. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

cloffi (lame), aros (abide, await, bide, come to a halt, remain, stay, stop, tarry, wait). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Halt

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

claudeo, clude, cludendi, cludentur, cludere, cludit, cluserit, cluserunt, cluseruntque, clusit, cluso, clusum, clusuris, confuto, consistant, consistens, consistentes, consistere, consisteret, consistite, consistunt, constiterant, constituam, constituamus, constituantur, constituas, constituat, constitue, constituebant, constituebat, constituemus, constituendum, constituens, constituent, constituentur, constituerat, constituere, constituerem, constituerent, constitueret, constituerim, constitueris, constituerit, constituerunt, constitueruntque, constitues, constituesque, constituet, constituetur, constitui, constituimus, constituissent, constituisset, constituisti, constituistis, constituit, constituite, constituitque, constituitur, constituo, constituta, constitutae, constituti, constitutis, constitutum, constitutus, constituunt, resisto, subsistam, subsistant, subsiste, subsistent, subsistere, subsisterem, subsisteremus, subsisterent, subsisteret, subsistet, subsisto, subsistunt, substiterant. (various references)

Old High German500-1100

halten. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Halt

LanguageDateSourceJohn Chapter 5, Verse 3
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintEn tautaiV katekeito plhqoV polu twn asqenountwn tuflwn cwlwn xhrwn ekdecomenwn thn tou udatoV kinhsin
Latin405VulgateIn his iacebat multitudo magna languentium caecorum claudorum aridorum expectantium aquae motum
Old English990West SaxonLæg mycel menygeoge-adlugra blindra. & healtra ænð forscruncenra& ge-anbidedon þæs wæteressteriunge.
Middle English1395WyclifIn these lay a greet multitude of sike men, blynde, crokid, and drie, abidynge the mouyng of the watir.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleIn which laye a greate multitude of sicke folke of blinde halt and wyddered waytinge for the movinge of the water.
Jacobean English1611King JamesIn these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
Victorian English1833WebsterIn these lay a great multitude of impotent persons, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
Basic English1964OgdenIn these doorways there were a great number of people with different diseases: some unable to see, some without the power of walking, some with wasted bodies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: Halt

LanguageJohn Chapter 5, Verse 3
BulgarianЗащото от време на време ангел слизаше в къпалнята и размътваше водата; а който пръв влизаше след раздвижването на водата оздравяваше от каквато и болест да беше болен].
CebuanoDinhi niini nanaghigda ang dakung panon sa mga masakiton, lakip sa mga buta, nga bakul, ug mga paralitico. Sila nanagpaabut sa paglihok sa tubig.
Chinese裡 面 躺 著 瞎 眼 的 、 瘸 腿 的 、 血 氣 枯 乾 的 、 許 多 病 人 。 " 有 古 卷 在 此 有 等 候 水 動 〕
CroatianU njima je ležalo mnoštvo bolesnika - slijepih, hromih, uzetih:èekali su da izbije voda..
DanishI dem lå der en Mængde syge, blinde, lamme, visne, (som ventede på, at Vandet skulde røres.
DutchIn dezelve lag een grote menigte van kranken, blinden, kreupelen, verdorden, wachtende op de roering des waters.
FinnishNiissä makasi suuri joukko sairaita, sokeita, rampoja ja näivetystautisia, jotka odottivat veden liikuttamista.
FrenchSous ces portiques étaient couchés en grand nombre des malades, des aveugles, des boiteux, des paralytiques, qui attendaient le mouvement de l`eau;
Germanin welchem lagen viele Kranke, Blinde, Lahme, Verdorrte, die warteten, wann sich das Wasser bewegte.
Haitian CreoleDevan pòt yo, te gen anpil moun ki te gen tout kalite maladi kouche la: gen sa ki te avèg, gen sa ki t'ap bwete, gen sa ki te paralize. Yo tout yo t'ap tann lè dlo a pran bouyi.
HungarianEzekben feküvék a betegek, vakok, sánták, aszkórosok nagy sokasága, várva a víznek megmozdulását.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariDi serambi-serambi itu banyak orang sakit berbaring; ada yang buta, ada yang timpang, dan ada yang lumpuh. (Mereka semua menunggu air di kolam itu bergoncang.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaDi serambi itu adalah terhantar amat banyak orang sakit, yaitu orang buta dan timpang dan lumpuh, sekaliannya menantikan air kolam itu berkocak.
Italiansotto i quali giaceva un gran numero di infermi, ciechi, zoppi e paralitici.
Korean그 안 에 많 은 병 자 소 경 뚝 발 이 혈 기 마 른 자 " 이 누 워 ( 물 의 동 함 을 기 다 리 니
LatvianTanîs gulçja liels daudzums slimnieku, aklo, klibo un izkaltuðo, kas gaidîja ûdens sakustçðanos.
MaoriNa kei roto i enei e takoto ana tona tini o nga turoro, o nga matapo, o nga kopa, o nga memenge, e tatari ana ki te pokarekarenga o te wai.
Modern GreekΕν ταυταις κατεκειτο πληθος πολυ των ασθενουντων, τυφλων, χωλων, ξηρων, οιτινες περιεμενον την κινησιν του υδατος.
Norwegiani dem lå en mengde syke: blinde, halte, visne.
PortugueseNestes jazia grande multidão de enfermos, cegos, mancos e ressicados [esperando o movimento da água.]   
RumanianKn pridvoarele acestea zqceau o mulyime de bolnavi, orbi, wchiopi, uscayi, cari awteptau miwcarea apei.
Russianч ОЙИ МЕЦБМП ЧЕМЙЛПЕ НОПЦЕУФЧП 'ПМШОЩИ, УМЕ ЩИ, ИТПНЩИ, ЙУУПИЫЙИ, ПЦЙ"БАЭЙИ "ЧЙЦЕОЙС ЧП"Щ,
ShuarNui Untsurí Jáiniak nunkanam tepearmiayi. Kusurusha shutuapsha tampemakusha tepesar entsa miartukat tusa Nákasarmiayi.
SpanishEn ellos yacía una multitud de enfermos, ciegos, cojos y paralíticos que esperaban el movimiento del agua.
SwahiliHumo barazani mlikuwa na wagonjwa wengi wamekaa: vipofu, viwete na waliopooza.*fa*
SwedishI dessa lågo många sjuka, blinda, halta, förtvinade.
Thaiในศาลาเหล่านั้นมีคนป่วยเป็นอันมากนอนอยู่ คนตาบอ" คนง่อย คนผอมแห้ง กำลังคอยน้ำกระเพื่อม
UkrainianУ них лежало багато слабих, сліпих, кривих, сухих, що чекали, щоб воду порушено.
UmaHi retu, wori' tauna to peda'. Ria towero, ria tokejo, ria topungku, ntora turu hi pengkawinaraa, ((mpopea kamojago-na ue wuhu'.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Halt

Derivations

Words beginning with "halt": halted, halter, halterbreak, halterbreaking, halterbreaks, halterbroke, halterbroken, haltere, haltered, halteres, haltering, halters, halting, haltingly, haltless, halts. (additional references)

Words ending with "halt": asphalt, shalt, stringhalt. (additional references)

Words containing "halt": asphalted, asphaltic, asphalting, asphaltite, asphaltites, asphalts, asphaltum, asphaltums, stringhalted, stringhalts. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Halt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ahaloth, ahl, haa, haalth, haat, habt, hact, hagt, hait, hal, hala, Halata, halb, halc, Halit, halp, halte, Halu, halv, haly, haot, hapt, ha't, hatle, hatt, hawt, helnt, helt, Hilat, hilte, hilti, hilty, hlast, hmlt, hoalt, hult, Hwal, Jhal, nalt, ralt, thelt, whalt, zalt. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Halt"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "halt" (pronounced hô"lt)
3-ô" l tassault, basalt, default, exalt, fault, Gault, malt, salt, Sault, vault.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Halt

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lath.

Words within the letters "a-h-l-t"

-1 letter: alt, hat, lat.

-2 letters: ah, al, at, ha, la, ta.

 Words containing the letters "a-h-l-t"
 

+1 letter: altho, halts, laith, latch, lathe, lathi, laths, lathy, loath, lotah, shalt.

 

+2 letters: alight, althea, chalet, chalot, chital, daleth, halest, halite, hallot, halted, halter, halutz, hamlet, hantle, harlot, hartal, haslet, hatful, health, hiatal, hyetal, klatch, lathed, lather, lathes, lathis, latish, lethal, lithia, loathe, lotahs, maltha, shelta, slatch, tahsil, thaler, thalli, thecal, thenal, thrall, thulia, wealth, withal.

 

+3 letters: alights, aliyoth, alright, althaea, altheas, althorn, anethol, anthill, asphalt, athlete, bathyal, benthal, blather, calathi, canthal, chaetal, chalets, challot, chaloth, chalutz, chaplet, chattel, chelate, chitals, cholate, claucht, claught, daleths, deathly, earthly, enthral, ethanol, ethical, ghastly, gnathal, halbert, halibut, halites, halitus, halloth, haltere, halters, halting, hamlets, hantles, haplite, haplont, harlots, harslet, hartals, haslets, hastily, hatable, hatchel, hateful, hatfuls, hatless, hatlike, hatsful, hayloft, healths, healthy, heeltap, heliast, hellcat, hematal, hyalite, inthral, klatsch, laithly, latched, latches, latchet, lathers, lathery, lathier, lathing, leather, lethals, lethean, lithias, loathed, loather, loathes, loathly, malthas, naphtol, outhaul, philtra, potlach, rathole, saltish, satchel, shallot, sheltas, shmaltz, slather, spathal, stealth, tahsils, tallish, tallith, tallyho, taphole, thalami, thalers, thallic, thallus, thermal, thiazol, thralls, thulias, trachle, trehala, trochal, unlatch, wealths, wealthy, woolhat.

 

+4 letters: acrolith, aerolith, alcahest, alighted, alkahest, allopath, almighty, alphabet, althaeas, althorns, although, anethole, anethols, anthelia, anthelix, antheral, anthills, apholate, ashplant, asphalts, atheling, athletes, athletic, bathless, biathlon, blathers, bolthead, cachalot, calathos, calathus, calthrop, catchall, catchfly, catechol, cathodal, catholic, challoth, chaplets, chastely, chattels, chattily, chelated, chelates, chelator, chevalet, chiliast, chlorate, cholates, claughts, daylight, deathful, earthily, elephant, enthalpy, enthrall, enthrals, eschalot, ethanols, ethereal, ethicals, ethnical, ethylate, exhalant, exhalent, faithful, fanlight, fatherly, fishtail, flatfish, flathead, flattish, flatwash, gaslight, ghastful, gilthead, golgotha, habitual, haematal, halachot, halakhot, halakist, halakoth, halation, halberts, halftime, halftone, halibuts, haltered, halteres, haltless, halutzim, hamulate, handlist, haplites, haplonts, haptical, harlotry, harslets, hasteful, hatchels, hateable, haylofts, hazelnut, heartily, heatable, heatedly, heatless, hectical, heeltaps, heliasts, hellcats, helotage, helpmate, hightail, hilarity, holdfast, horntail, hospital, hotelman, huntable, hyalites, inhalant, inthrall, inthrals, kathodal, klatches, lanthorn, latchets, latching, latchkey, lathered, latherer, lathiest, lathings, lathwork, laughter, leachate, leathern, leathers, leathery, lethally, lethargy, litharge, lithemia, loathers, loathful, loathing, lothario, megalith, methanol, methylal, mothball, mythical, naphthol, naphthyl, naphtols, nathless, oothecal, outhauls, outlaugh, pamphlet, patchily, pathless, phallist, phratral, phthalic, phthalin, planchet, plethora, polymath, potlache, potlatch, ratholes, saltbush, satchels, schmaltz, shaliest, shallots, shetland, shmaltzy, shoalest, shoptalk, slatches, slathers, stablish, stanchly, stealths, stealthy, sulphate, taiglach, talliths, tallyhos, tapholes, teiglach, telepath, thalamic, thalamus, thallium, thalloid, thallous, thankful, thawless, thermals, thetical, thiazole, thiazols, thinclad, thirlage, thoracal, thraldom, thralled, thrawnly, thwartly, tithable, toolhead, tracheal, trachled, trachles, trashily, trauchle, trehalas, trochlea, turnhall, ultrahip, ultrahot, unlethal, urethral, watchful, whiptail, woolhats, wrathful, wrathily, zenithal.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Halt


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 61 6C 74

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    .-    .-..    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100001 01101100 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#97 &#108 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0061 006C 0074

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

42677886

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Speeches
11. Usage Frequency
12. Names: Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Bible Trace
18. Abbreviations
19. Acronyms
20. Derivations
21. Rhymes
22. Anagrams
23. Orthography
24. Bibliography


  

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