halt
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2.3
- noun
- /hɔlt/
:
parón
- Every year, commercial activity grinds to a halt for this event in each principal town.
- come to a grinding halt
- come to a halt
- bring to a halt
I don't think I saw any Stock Exchange halts today on GMA.
- I don't think I saw any Stock Exchange halts today on GMA.
- Hagel, like, draws everything to a grinding halt, and he says that's not a Rd.
- Hot Ones, as you guys know, screeching halt.
- We had that fiasco with the Robin Hood GameStop trading halt that occurred a couple weeks ago.
- Then a judge stepped in and put it to a halt, citing an obscure law called the Constitution.
- And you don't need that many of them to bring things to a shuddering halt.
- It's it's it brings the behavioral and perceptual sequence to a halt.
- The hurt, the halt, the broken.
- Why do they want to pad their binary out with halts?
- Scratches in my back of my car, screeches to a halt.
Examples
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I want to call a halt to these proceedings.
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The construction industry came to a halt, and builders went out of business.
Academic text (1993) -
So we can control right down here whether the halt signal is active or not.
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And when they called a halt to it, you had to get rid of them in case they decided to talk.
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So basically, basically we will have put a significant halt to progression of climate change.
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Could all conversations please come to a halt?
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Conflict between the natives and the Spanish came to a halt.
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The production lines ground to a halt for hours while technicians tried to debug the software.
Academic text (1996) -
The city ground to a halt today as a high-speed ghost chase tore up portions of Lower Manhattan.
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The meeting came to a halt after the contentious discussion became too heated.
Synonyms
310
1.0
An act when something ends or pauses
192
1.0
A short stop in speaking or activity
168
2.0
A period of time someone spends in a place
99
3.0
A short time when something stops or is delayed
70
4.3
A temporary stop of an activity or service
45
8.5
A temporary official stop of an activity by those in charge
37
6.2
An official decision to stop an activity, for example pay increases
35
3.5
A time when movement or activity stops completely
34
6.3
A pause in an activity or series that is usually temporary
29
7.2
The end of something that is happening
15
4.1
A time when something stops moving or working
8
6.6
A pause in a meeting or court so it can continue later
2
3.6
A complete end to an activity or process
1
3.1
A time when an activity or event ends
A short pause in an activity
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Etymology
The word halt comes from an old English word healt meaning 'lame' or 'limping'. Picture someone who must stop walking because of a limp — that image helps explain why halt now means a 'stop' or 'pause' in movement.