halt
IPA: hˈɔɫt
noun
- A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
- (rail transport) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
- (dated) Lameness; a limp.
verb
- (intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.
- (intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
- (intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
- To waver.
- To falter.
- (intransitive) To stop marching.
- (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
- (transitive) To bring to a stop.
- (transitive) To cause to discontinue.
adjective
- (archaic) Lame, limping.
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Examples of "halt" in Sentences
- This halted the bulk of the attack.
- He was unable to halt the contraband.
- The same holds for the halting problem.
- The film is halting and it annoyed audiences.
- The police was unable to halt the contraband.
- Can they halt the plans of the ethereal Gelth
- Schoberth was unwell and the expedition halted.
- The halt was the first extension on the railway.
- By that standard, the solution to the halting problem is computable.
- At the downstream end of the conveyor there is a stop for halting the products.
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