halt vs stem what difference
what is difference between halt and stem
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hɔːlt/
- (cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /hɑlt/
- Rhymes: -ɔːlt
Etymology 1
From Middle English halten, from Old English healtian (“to be lame, walk with a limp”), from Proto-Germanic *haltōną. English usage in the sense of ‘make a halt’ is from the noun. Cognate with North Frisian halte, Swedish halta.
Verb
halt (third-person singular simple present halts, present participle halting, simple past and past participle halted)
- (intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1
- Do not smile at me that I boast her of,
- For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise,
- And make it halt behind her.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1
- (intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
- #*
- How long halt ye between two opinions?
- #*
- (intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
- To waver.
- To falter.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle French halt, from early modern German halt (“stop!”), imperative of halten (“to hold, to stop”). More at hold.
Verb
halt (third-person singular simple present halts, present participle halting, simple past and past participle halted)
- (intransitive) To stop marching.
- (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
- 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.
- (transitive) To bring to a stop.
- (transitive) To cause to discontinue.
Synonyms
- (to stop marching):
- (to stop): brake, desist, stay; See also Thesaurus:stop
- (to cause something to stop): freeze, immobilize; See also Thesaurus:immobilize
- (to cause to discontinue): break off, terminate, shut down, stop; See also Thesaurus:desist
Translations
Noun
halt (plural halts)
- A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
- (rail transport) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
Synonyms
- (cessation: temporary): hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause
- (cessation: permanent): close, endpoint, terminus; see also Thesaurus:finish
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English halt, from Old English healt, from Proto-Germanic *haltaz (“halt, lame”), from Proto-Indo-European *kol-d-, from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to beat, strike, cut, slash”). Cognate with Danish halt, Swedish halt.
Adjective
halt (comparative more halt, superlative most halt)
- (archaic) Lame, limping.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark IX:
- 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.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark IX:
Noun
halt (plural halts)
- (dated) Lameness; a limp.
Anagrams
- lath, thal
Alemannic German
Etymology
From Middle High German halt. Cognate with German halt (adverb).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /halt/
Adverb
halt
- so, just, simply
- 1978, Rolf Lyssy & Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher, (transcript):
- Chömmer halt e chli früner. Schadet a nüt.
- So we’ll arrive a little earlier. Won’t do any harm.
- Chömmer halt e chli früner. Schadet a nüt.
- 1978, Rolf Lyssy & Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher, (transcript):
Danish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective
halt
- lame
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /halt/
Etymology 1
From the verb halten (“to hold; to stop”).
Verb
halt
- singular imperative of halten
Interjection
halt!
- stop!, wait!
Descendants
- → Dutch: halt
- → Italian: alt
- → Spanish: alto
- → Portuguese: alto
- → Middle French: halt
- French: halte
- → Dutch: halte
- → English: halt
- French: halte
Etymology 2
From Middle High German halt, pertaining to Old High German halto (“soon, fast”). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *haldiz, an adverbial comparative like *batiz.
Adverb
halt
- (colloquial, modal particle) Indicating that something is generally known, or cannot be changed, or the like; often untranslatable; so, just, simply, indeed
Usage notes
- The word is originally southern German and is still considered so by some contemporary dictionaries. It has, however, become common throughout the language area during the past decades.
Synonyms
- eben
See also
- ja
Hungarian
Etymology
hal (“to die”) + -t (past-tense and past-participle suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈhɒlt]
- Hyphenation: halt
- Rhymes: -ɒlt
Verb
halt
- third-person singular indicative past indefinite of hal
Participle
halt
- past participle of hal
Declension
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [hal̪ˠt̪ˠ]
Noun
halt m
- h-prothesized form of alt
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Old Norse haltr, from Proto-Germanic *haltaz.
Pronunciation
- Homophones: hallt, halvt
Adjective
halt (indefinite singular halt, definite singular and plural halte, comparative haltare, indefinite superlative haltast, definite superlative haltaste)
- limp, limping
Verb
halt
- imperative of halta and halte
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Participle
halt (definite singular and plural halte)
- past participle of hala and hale
Verb
halt
- supine of hala and hale
References
- “halt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old French
Etymology
From a conflation of Frankish *hauh, *hōh (“high, tall, elevated”) and Latin altus (“high, raised, profound”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈhaɫt]
Adjective
halt m (oblique and nominative feminine singular halte)
- high; elevated
Adverb
halt
- loud; loudly
Derived terms
- haltement
Descendants
- Middle French: hault
- French: haut
Old Norse
Adjective
halt
- strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of haltr
Verb
halt
- second-person singular imperative active of halda
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: stĕm, IPA(key): /stɛm/
- Rhymes: -ɛm
Etymology 1
From Middle English stem, stemme, stempne, stevin, from Old English stemn, from Proto-Germanic *stamniz.
Noun
stem (plural stems)
- The stock of a family; a race or generation of progenitors.
- 1633, George Herbert, Church Monuments
- While I do pray, learn here thy stem / And true descent.
- 1633, George Herbert, Church Monuments
- A branch of a family.
- An advanced or leading position; the lookout.
- Wolsey sat at the stem more than twenty years.
- (botany) The above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms.
- 1736, Sir Walter Raleigh, The History of the World in Five Books
- After they are shot up thirty feet in length, they spread a very large top, having no bough nor twig in the trunk or the stem.
- 1736, Sir Walter Raleigh, The History of the World in Five Books
- A slender supporting member of an individual part of a plant such as a flower or a leaf; also, by analogy, the shaft of a feather.
- A narrow part on certain man-made objects, such as a wine glass, a tobacco pipe, a spoon.
- (linguistics) The main part of an uninflected word to which affixes may be added to form inflections of the word. A stem often has a more fundamental root. Systematic conjugations and declensions derive from their stems.
- (slang) A person’s leg.
- 2008, Lori Wilde, Rhonda Nelson, Cara Summers, August Harlequin Blaze
- She was perfectly, fuckably proportioned everywhere else, both above and below her waist. A pocket-size Venus, with the longest stems he’d ever seen on someone so dang diminutive.
- 2008, Lori Wilde, Rhonda Nelson, Cara Summers, August Harlequin Blaze
- (slang) The penis.
- (typography) A vertical stroke of a letter.
- (music) A vertical stroke marking the length of a note in written music.
- Synonyms: tail, (obsolete) virgula
- (music) A premixed portion of a track for use in audio mastering and remixing.
- (nautical) The vertical or nearly vertical forward extension of the keel, to which the forward ends of the planks or strakes are attached.
- (cycling) A component on a bicycle that connects the handlebars to the bicycle fork.
- (anatomy) A part of an anatomic structure considered without its possible branches or ramifications.
- (slang) A crack pipe; or the long, hollow portion of a similar pipe (i.e. meth pipe) resembling a crack pipe.
- (chiefly Britain) A winder on a clock, watch, or similar mechanism.
Derived terms
Translations
References
“stem” in the Collins English Dictionary
Verb
stem (third-person singular simple present stems, present participle stemming, simple past and past participle stemmed)
- To remove the stem from.
- To be caused or derived; to originate.
- To descend in a family line.
- To direct the stem (of a ship) against; to make headway against.
- (obsolete) To hit with the stem of a ship; to ram.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- As when two warlike Brigandines at sea, / With murdrous weapons arm’d to cruell fight, / Doe meete together on the watry lea, / They stemme ech other with so fell despight, / That with the shocke of their owne heedlesse might, / Their wooden ribs are shaken nigh a sonder […]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.ii:
- To ram (clay, etc.) into a blasting hole.
Synonyms
- (to originate, stem from): to be due to, to arise from
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English stemmen, a borrowing from Old Norse stemma (“to stop, stem, dam”) (whence Danish stemme/stæmme (“to stem, dam up”)), from Proto-Germanic *stammijaną. Cognate with German stemmen, Middle Dutch stemmen, stempen. Compare stammer.
Verb
stem (third-person singular simple present stems, present participle stemming, simple past and past participle stemmed)
- (transitive) To stop, hinder (for instance, a river or blood).
- to stem a tide
- [They] stem the flood with their erected breasts.
- (skiing) To move the feet apart and point the tips of the skis inward in order to slow down the speed or to facilitate a turn.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:hinder
Translations
Etymology 3
Noun
stem (plural stems)
- Alternative form of steem
Etymology 4
Acronym of science, technology, engineering, (and) mathematics.
Noun
stem (plural stems)
- Alternative form of STEM
- 2015 May 29th, BBC News, How do US black students perform at school?
- Stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields are a particular cause for concern because within them there are more pronounced stereotypes, extreme competitiveness and gender inequities regarding the abilities and competencies of black male and female students.
- 2015 May 29th, BBC News, How do US black students perform at school?
Further reading
- stem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- stem in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021), “stem”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
- EMTs, Mets, Smet, TEMs, mets
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stɛm/
Etymology 1
From Dutch stem, from Middle Dutch stemme, from Old Dutch *stemma, from Proto-Germanic *stebnō, *stamnijō.
Noun
stem (plural stemme)
- vote
- voice
Etymology 2
From Dutch stemmen.
Verb
stem (present stem, present participle stemmende, past participle gestem)
- to vote
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch stemme, from Old Dutch *stemma, from Proto-Germanic *stebnō, *stamnijō. Under influence of Latin vox (“voice, word”), it acquired the now obsolete sense of “word”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /stɛm/
- Hyphenation: stem
- Rhymes: -ɛm
Noun
stem f (plural stemmen, diminutive stemmetje n)
- voice, sound made by the mouth using airflow
- the ability to speak
- vote
- (obsolete) word
- (phonetics) voice, property formed by vibration of the vocal cords
Derived terms
- foertstem
- proteststem
Descendants
- Afrikaans: stem
- Negerhollands: stem
- → Indonesian: setem
- → Papiamentu: stèm
- → Sranan Tongo: sten
Verb
stem
- first-person singular present indicative of stemmen
- imperative of stemmen
Anagrams
- mest, mets
Latin
Verb
stem
- first-person singular present active subjunctive of stō
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
stem
- imperative of stemme
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
stem
- imperative of stemme
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English stamp.
Noun
stem
- stamp