Halt vs False - What's the difference?
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(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.
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a verb halt
is .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.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 ----false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}