Limit vs Halt - What's the difference?
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A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
* 1839 , (Charles Dickens), Nicholas Nickleby , chapter 21:
* 1922 , , Ulysses , episode 17:
* 2012 March 6, Dan McCrum, Nicole Bullock and Guy Chazan, Financial Times ,
(mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit and the lower limit of a sequence: if the upper and lower limits are different, then the sequence has no limit (i.e., does not converge).
(mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
(category theory) Given diagram F'' : ''J'' → ''C'', a cone (''L'', ''φ'') from ''L'' ∈ Ob(''C'') to ''F'' is the ''limit'' of ''F'' if it has the universal property that for any other cone (''N'', ''ψ'') from ''N'' ∈ Ob(''C'') to ''F'' there is a unique morphism ''u'' : ''N'' → ''L'' such that for all ''X'' ∈ Ob(''J ), .
(poker) Short for fixed limit.
The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
* Shakespeare
(logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
(poker) Being a fixed limit game.
To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
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(mathematics) To have a limit in a particular set.
(obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.
(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.
In lang=en terms the difference between limit and halt
is that limit is being a fixed limit game while halt is lameness; a limp.In transitive terms the difference between limit and halt
is that limit is to restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound while halt is to cause to discontinue.limit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- There are several existing limits to executive power.
- Two drinks is my limit tonight.
- It is the conductor which communicates to the inhabitants of regions beyond its limit ,
- Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space,
“Utility buyout loses power in shale gas revolution”:
- At the time, there seemed to be no limit to the size of ever-larger private equity deals, with banks falling over each other to arrange financing on generous terms and to invest money from their own private equity arms.
- The sequence of reciprocals has zero as its limit.
- Category theory defines a very general concept of limit.
- the limit of a walk, of a town, or of a country
- As eager of the chase, the maid / Beyond the forest's verdant limits strayed.
- The archdeacon hath divided it / Into three limits very equally.
- the dateless limit of thy dear exile
- The limit of your lives is out.
- I prithee, give no limits to my tongue.
Synonyms
* (restriction) bound, boundary, limitation, restrictionDerived terms
* age limit * central limit theorem * city limits * elastic limit * in the limit * limit down * limit up * limitation * limitless * lower limit * outer limit * the sky is the limit * to the limit * time limit * unlimited * upper limitDescendants
* German: (l)See also
* bound * functionAdjective
(-)Etymology 2
From (etyl) ; see noun.Verb
(en verb)- [The Chinese government] has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.
Synonyms
* (restrict) cap; restrict; withstrainExternal links
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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.