Halt vs Hall - What's the difference?
halt | hall |
(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.
A corridor; a hallway.
*, chapter=13
, title= A meeting room.
A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
A building providing student accommodation at a university.
The principal room of a secular medieval building.
(label) Cleared passageway through a crowd.
* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
As nouns the difference between halt and hall
is that halt is a cessation, either temporary or permanent or halt can be (dated) lameness; a limp while hall is a corridor; a hallway.As a verb halt
is (label) to limp; move with a limping gait or halt can be (lb) to stop marching or halt can be to limp.As an adjective halt
is (archaic) lame, limping.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 ----hall
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.}}
- (Cowell)
- A hall ! a hall!