Cold vs Halt - What's the difference?

cold | halt |

As an adjective cold

is (label) having a low temperature.

As a noun cold

is a condition of low temperature.

As an adverb cold

is while at low temperature.

As a verb halt is

cold

English

Adjective

(er)

(label) Having a low temperature.

(label) Causing the air to be cold.

(label) Feeling the sensation of coldness, especially to the point of discomfort.

Unfriendly, emotionally distant or unfeeling.

* 2011 April 23, (Doctor Who), series 6, episode 1, (The Impossible Astronaut):

RIVER SONG (upon seeing the still-living DOCTOR, moments after he made her and two other friends watch what they thought was his death): This is cold'. Even by your standards, this is ' cold .

Dispassionate, not prejudiced or partisan, impartial.

Completely unprepared; without introduction.

Unconscious or deeply asleep; deprived of the metaphorical heat associated with life or consciousness.

(label) Perfectly, exactly, completely; by heart.

(label) Cornered, done for.

(label) Not pungent or acrid.

* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

cold plants

(label) Unexciting; dull; uninteresting.

* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)

What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in!

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

The jest grows cold when it comes on in a second scene.

Affecting the sense of smell (as of hunting dogs) only feebly; having lost its odour.

(label) Not sensitive; not acute.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

Smell this business with a sense as cold / As is a dead man's nose.

Distant; said, in the game of hunting for some object, of a seeker remote from the thing concealed. Compare warm'' and ''hot .

(label) Having a bluish effect; not warm in colour.

Synonyms

* chilled, chilly, freezing, frigid, glacial, icy, cool * (of the weather) (qualifier) brass monkeys, nippy, parky, taters * (of a person or animal) * (unfriendly) aloof, distant, hostile, standoffish, unfriendly, unwelcoming * (unprepared) unprepared, unready * See also

Antonyms

* (having a low temperature) baking, boiling, heated, hot, scorching, searing, torrid, warm * (of the weather) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (of a person or animal) hot (See the corresponding synonyms of (hot).) * (unfriendly) amiable, friendly, welcoming * (unprepared) prepared, primed, ready

Derived terms

* as cold as charity * as cold as ice, cold as ice * as cold as the grave, cold as the grave * blow hot and cold * brass monkeys * bring someone out in a cold sweat * coldness * cold-blooded * cold call * cold case * cold cash * cold comfort * cold cream * cold cuts * cold-eyed * cold feet/get cold feet * cold fish * cold front * * cold-hearted * cold one * cold-read * cold reading * cold snap * cold start * cold storage * cold store * cold sweat * cold turkey * cold war * cold-weld * come in from the cold * freezing cold * get cold feet * give someone the cold shoulder * in cold blood * in the cold light of day * leave someone cold * leave someone out in the cold * make someone's blood run cold * stone-cold * throw cold water on

Noun

(en noun)

A condition of low temperature.

Come in, out of the cold .

(medicine) A common, usually harmless, viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever.

I caught a miserable cold and had to stay home for a week.

Synonyms

* (low temperature) coldness * (illness) common cold, coryza, head cold

Derived terms

* bitter cold * brass monkey weather * catch cold * catch one's death of cold * cold sore * cold virus * common cold * head cold

Coordinate terms

* freeze, frost

Adverb

(en adverb)

While at low temperature.

''The steel was processed cold .

Without preparation.

The speaker went in cold and floundered for a topic.

With finality.

I knocked him out cold .

Statistics

Anagrams

* clod

halt

English

(wikipedia halt)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . English usage in the sense of 'make a halt' is from the noun. Cognate with North Frisian (m), Swedish (m).

Verb

(en verb)

(label) To limp; move with a limping gait.

(label) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.

* Bible, 1 Kings xviii. 21

How long halt ye between two opinions?

(label) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To stop marching.

(lb) To stop either temporarily or permanently.

*:And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.

(lb) To bring to a stop.

(lb) To cause to discontinue.

Noun

(en noun)

A cessation, either temporary or permanent.

* Clarendon

Without any halt they marched.

A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.

Etymology 3

(etyl) healt (verb (healtian)), from (etyl) . Cognate with Danish halt, Swedish halt.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic) Lame, limping.

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Mark IX:

It is better for the to goo halt into lyfe, then with ij. fete to be cast into hell [...].

* Bible, Luke xiv. 21

Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt , and the blind.

Verb

(en verb)

To limp.

* 1610 , , act 4 scene 1

Do not smile at me that I boast her off,

For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise,

And make it halt behind her.

To waver.

To falter.

Noun

(en noun)
(dated) Lameness; a limp.

Anagrams

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