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Definition of Halt

Halt

3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth.

A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress.

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.

To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain.

To cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the general halted his troops for refreshment.

Halting or stopping in walking; lame.

The act of limping; lameness.

To walk lamely; to limp.

To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective.

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Halt Quotations

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Khalil Gibran

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
Vernon Howard

The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt.
Maimonides

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception.
Alan Bennett

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
Wentworth Miller

The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.
Jenny Shipley

Out of my desire to complete Iraq's independence and to finish the withdrawal of the occupation forces from our holy lands, I am obliged to halt military operations of the honest Iraqi resistance until the withdrawal of the occupation forces is complete.
Muqtada al Sadr

The original project began because we know the universe is expanding. Everybody had assumed that gravity would slow down the expansion of the universe and everything would come to a halt and collapse. The big surprise was it was actually speeding up.
Saul Perlmutter

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
Rudy Rucker

It just took all of that to come to a screeching halt, to get to the point of having nothing, for me to finally realize, Hey, what are you fighting with this for? Until then, I hadn't claimed my faith as my own; I had just grown up with it.
Scott Stapp

See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fiction, nor at handling the truth in a journalistic way. Journalists know when to call a halt and write something, but I kept on looking for answers.
John Sladek

Madam Speaker, it is time to halt illegal entry into this country. It is time to halt the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into this great Nation, and it is time to secure our borders.
Marsha Blackburn

In certain areas where the media are still controlled, the changes have come to a halt, which is a very frustrating situation. I would like the changes to take place throughout China.
Jung Chang

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.
Edward Grey

I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.
Helle Thorning-Schmidt

The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
Harold Rosenberg

The working class will not halt until socialism has been realized.
Ernst Toller

There are many outsiders that actively try to halt every natural resource development project in Alaska. Many of these same people have never even been to Alaska, yet they claim to know what's best for us.
Lisa Murkowski

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
Ada Cambridge

We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt.
Jan Peter Balkenende

We must act swiftly in order to halt the rate of decay our planet faces.
Henry W. Kendall

To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.
Anna Pavlova

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Halt Translations

halt in Afrikaans is gaan staan, keer, stop, stilhou
halt in Danish is stoppe, standse
halt in Dutch is afslaan, halthouden, blijven staan
halt in German is Halt, halten, Halt
halt in Italian is fermarsi, alt, durare
halt in Latin is subsisto, claudeo, confuto
halt in Norwegian is stopp, stoppe
halt in Portuguese is parar, parada
halt in Swedish is stanna, halt, tveka, anhalt, rast

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