Halt vs Haunt - What's the difference?
halt | haunt |
(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.
To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).
* Shakespeare
* Jonathan Swift
* Fairfax
To make uneasy, restless.
To stalk, to follow
To live habitually; to stay, to remain.
* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , John XI:
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
To accustom; habituate; make accustomed to.
* Wyclif
To practise; to devote oneself to.
* Ascham
To persist in staying or visiting.
* Shakespeare
A place at which one is regularly found; a hangout.
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* 1868 , , "Kitty's Class Day":
* 1984 , Timothy Loughran and Natalie Angier, "
(dialect) A ghost.
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 93:
A feeding place for animals.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
As verbs the difference between halt and haunt
is that halt is while haunt is to inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts).As a noun haunt is
a place at which one is regularly found; a hangout.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 ----haunt
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (Scotland)Verb
(en verb)- A couple of ghosts haunt the old, burnt-down house.
- You wrong me, sir, thus still to haunt my house.
- those cares that haunt the court and town
- Foul spirits haunt my resting place.
- The memory of his past failures haunted him.
- The policeman haunted him, following him everywhere.
- Jesus therfore walked no more openly amonge the iewes: butt went his waye thence vnto a countre ny to a wildernes into a cite called effraym, and there haunted with his disciples.
- yonder in that wastefull wildernesse / Huge monsters haunt , and many dangers dwell
- Haunt thyself to pity.
- Leave honest pleasure, and haunt no good pastime.
- I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors.
Noun
(en noun)- Both Jack and Fletcher had graduated the year before, but still took an interest in their old haunts , and patronized the fellows who were not yet through.
Science: Striking It Rich in Wyoming," Time , 8 Oct.:
- Wyoming has been a favorite haunt of paleontologists for the past century ever since westering pioneers reported that many vertebrate fossils were almost lying on the ground.
- ‘Harnts don't wander much ginerally,’ he said. ‘They hand round thar own buryin'-groun' mainly.’