halt : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: halt	by the DICT Development Group
9 results for halt
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
halt adj disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg" Synonym(s): crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy, game n 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" Synonym(s): arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill" Synonym(s): stop, halt an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze" Synonym(s): freeze, halt v cause to stop; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses" Synonym(s): halt, hold, arrest come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" Synonym(s): stop, halt Antonym(s): get going, go, start stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process" Synonym(s): stop, halt, block, kibosh stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide" Synonym(s): stem, stanch, staunch, halt
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Halt \Halt\, n. The act of limping; lameness.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Halt \Halt\, v. i. [OE. halten, AS. healtian. See {Halt}, a.] 1. To walk lamely; to limp. 2. To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective. The blank verse shall halt for it. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Halt \Halt\, 3d pers. sing. pres. of {Hold}, contraction for holdeth. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Halt \Halt\, 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. Without any halt they marched. --Clarendon. [Lovers] soon in passion's war contest, Yet in their march soon make a halt. --Davenant.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. 2. To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain. How long halt ye between two opinions? --1 Kings xviii. 21
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Halt \Halt\, v. t. (Mil.) To cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the general halted his troops for refreshment.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Halt \Halt\, a. [AS. healt; akin to OS., Dan., & Sw. halt, Icel. haltr, halltr, Goth. halts, OHG. halz.] Halting or stopping in walking; lame. Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. --Luke xiv. 21.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
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.