Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - halt
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Halt
halt
~1 n a stop or pause (bring sth to a halt (=make something stop moving or continuing)) (Heavy snowfalls brought traffic to a halt on the Brenner Pass. | fuel shortages that have brought the industry to a grinding halt | come/grind/crash etc to a halt (=stop moving or continuing)) (The whole peace process seems to have ground to a halt. | Joe slammed on the brakes and the car skidded to a halt. | call a halt (to) (=officially stop an activity from continuing)) (The IRA leadership has called a halt to its campaign of violence.) ~2 v 1 to stop moving (The parade halted by a busy corner.) 2 halt! used as a military command to order someone to stop moving or soldiers to stop marching (Company halt! | Halt! Who goes there?) 3 to prevent someone or something from continuing with something (There were calls to halt the hunting of seals.)
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(halts, halting, halted) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. When a person or a vehicle halts or when something halts them, they stop moving in the direction they were going and stand still. They halted at a short distance from the house... She held her hand out flat, to halt him. VERB: V, V n 2. When something such as growth, development, or activity halts or when you halt it, it stops completely. Striking workers halted production at the auto plant yesterday... The flow of assistance to Vietnam’s fragile economy from its ideological allies has virtually halted. VERB: V n, V 3. ‘Halt!’ is a military order to stop walking or marching and stand still. The colonel ordered ‘Halt!’ VERB: only imper, V 4. If someone calls a halt to something such as an activity, they decide not to continue with it or to end it immediately. The Russian government had called a halt to the construction of a new project in the Rostov region. PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR to n 5. If someone or something comes to a halt, they stop moving. The elevator creaked to a halt at the ground floor. PHRASE: PHR after v 6. If something such as growth, development, or activity comes or grinds to a halt or is brought to a halt, it stops completely. Her political career came to a halt in December 1988... PHRASE: PHR after v ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English healt; akin to Old High German halz lame Date: before 12th century lame II. intransitive verb Date: before 12th century 1. to walk or proceed lamely ; limp 2. to stand in perplexity or doubt between alternate courses ; waver 3. to display weakness or imperfection ; falter III. noun Etymology: German, from Middle High German, from ~, imperative of ~en to hold, from Old High German ~an — more at hold Date: circa 1598 stop IV. verb Date: 1656 intransitive verb 1. to cease marching or journeying 2. discontinue, terminate the project ~ed for lack of funds transitive verb 1. to bring to a stop the strike ~ed subways and buses 2. to cause the discontinuance of ; end ~ hostilities ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. n. & v. --n. 1 a stop (usu. temporary); an interruption of progress (come to a halt). 2 a temporary stoppage on a march or journey. 3 Brit. a minor stopping-place on a local railway line, usu. without permanent buildings. --v.intr. & tr. stop; come or bring to a halt. Phrases and idioms call a halt (to) decide to stop. Etymology: orig. in phr. make halt f. G Halt machen f. halten hold, stop 2. v. & adj. --v.intr. 1 (esp. as halting adj.) lack smooth progress. 2 hesitate (halt between two opinions). 3 walk hesitatingly. 4 archaic be lame. --adj. archaic lame or crippled. Derivatives haltingly adv. Etymology: OE halt, healt, healtian f. Gmc ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) остановка останавливаться 2) платформа 3) останов - breakpoint halt - conditional halt - dead halt - immediate halt - nonprogrammed halt - program halt - programmed halt ...Большой Англо-русский Русско-английский политехнический словарь
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1) останов ЭВМ 2) остановка 3) приостановить reaction comes to halt — реакция останавливается - halt state ...Англо-русский Русско-английский научно-технический словарь
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1. остановка; привал dead halt —- резкая остановка halt sign —- дорожный знак "стоп" halt sign ahead sign —- дорожный знак "впереди знак "стоп" clock-hour halt —- воен. короткий привал long halt —- воен. большой привал at the halt —- воен. на месте to come to a halt —- остановиться to bring to a halt —- остановиться to call a halt —- делать привал; воен. также останавливать продвижение to call a halt to smth. —- положить конец чему-л. 2. авт. остановка 3. ж-д. полустанок 4. эл. останов 5. останавливать; обрывать; прекращать halt! —- воен. стой! platoon, halt! —- воен. взвод, стой! halt and freeze! —- воен. разг. стой!, смирно! 6. останавливаться to halt at an inn —- останавливаться в гостинице he halted in his tracks —- он остановился как вкопанный 7. запинание; запинка he has a halt in his speech —- он говорит запинаясь 8. уст. хромота 9. уст. хромой 10. в грам. знач. сущ. собир хромые the halt and blind —- библ. хромые и слепые 11. колебаться to halt between two opinions —- колебаться между двумя мнениями 12. запинаться 13. быть неубедительным, шатким 14. уст. хромать; идти нетвердым шагом ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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I 1. noun 1) привал; остановка 2) полустанок, платформа 2. v. останавливать(ся); делать привал 3. interj. стой! (команда) II v. 1) колебаться 2) запинаться 3) хромать Syn: see lame ...Англо-русский словарь
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comp. assem. abbr. Highly Accelerated Life Testing non-prof. org. abbr. Help Abolish Legal Tyranny law abbr. Help Abolish Legal Tyranny ...English abbreviation dictionary
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