Halt vs Closure - What's the difference?
halt | closure |
(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
(label) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
(lb) To stop marching.
(lb) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
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*: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.
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A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
* Clarendon
A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
(archaic) Lame, limping.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Mark IX:
* Bible, Luke xiv. 21
To limp.
* 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
To waver.
To falter.
An event or occurrence that signifies an ending.
A feeling of completeness; the experience of an emotional conclusion, usually to a difficult period.
A device to facilitate temporary and repeatable opening and closing.
(computer science) An abstraction that represents a function within an environment, a context consisting of the variables that are both bound at a particular time during the execution of the program and that are within the function's scope.
(mathematics) The smallest set that both includes a given subset and possesses some given property.
(topology, of a set) The smallest closed set which contains the given set.
The act of shutting; a closing.
That which closes or shuts; that by which separate parts are fastened or closed.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) That which encloses or confines; an enclosure.
* Shakespeare
A method of ending a parliamentary debate and securing an immediate vote upon a measure before a legislative body.
As a verb halt
is .As a noun closure is
an event or occurrence that signifies an ending.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)- How long halt ye between two opinions?
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)Noun
(en noun)- Without any halt they marched.
Etymology 3
(etyl) healt (verb (healtian)), from (etyl) . Cognate with Danish halt, Swedish halt.Adjective
(en adjective)- It is better for the to goo halt into lyfe, then with ij. fete to be cast into hell [...].
- Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt , and the blind.
Verb
(en verb)- 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.
Anagrams
* English ergative verbs ----closure
English
Noun
(en noun)- the closure of a door, or of a chink
- Without a seal, wafer, or any closure whatever.
- O thou bloody prison / Within the guilty closure of thy walls / Richard the Second here was hacked to death.