halt vs stop what difference

what is difference between halt and stop

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.
(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.

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.

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

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

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

Translingual

Etymology

From English full stop

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈstɔp]

Noun

stop

Code word for a full stop in the NATO/ICAO spelling alphabet

References

English

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) enPR: stŏp, IPA^(key): /stɒp/
(General American) enPR: stäp, IPA^(key): /stɑp/
Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

From Middle English stoppen, stoppien, from Old English stoppian (“to stop, close”), from Proto-West Germanic *stuppōn, from Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn (“to stop, close”), *stuppijaną (“to push, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp-, *(s)tewb- (“to push; stick”), from *(s)tew- (“to bump; impact; butt; push; beat; strike; hit”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian stopje (“to stop, block”), West Frisian stopje (“to stop”), Dutch stoppen (“to stop”), Low German stoppen (“to stop”), German stopfen (“to be filling, stuff”), German stoppen (“to stop”), Danish stoppe (“to stop”), Swedish stoppa (“to stop”), Icelandic stoppa (“to stop”), Middle High German stupfen, stüpfen (“to pierce”). More at stuff, stump.

Alternate etymology derives Proto-West Germanic *stoppōn from an assumed Vulgar Latin *stūpāre, *stuppāre (“to stop up with tow”), from stūpa, stīpa, stuppa (“tow, flax, oakum”), from Ancient Greek στύπη (stúpē), στύππη (stúppē, “tow, flax, oakum”). This derivation, however, is doubtful, as the earliest instances of the Germanic verb do not carry the meaning of “stuff, stop with tow”. Rather, these senses developed later in response to influence from similar sounding words in Latin and Romance.

Verb

stop (third-person singular simple present stops, present participle stopping, simple past and past participle stopped)

(intransitive) To cease moving.
(intransitive) To not continue.
(transitive) To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing.
(transitive) To cease; to no longer continue (doing something).
(transitive) To cause (something) to come to an end.
(transitive) To close or block an opening.
(transitive, intransitive, photography, often with “up” or “down”) To adjust the aperture of a camera lens.
(intransitive) To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily.
- 1887, R. D. Blackmore, Springhaven
  by stopping at home till the money was gone
- 1931, E. F. Benson, Mapp & Lucia, chapter 7
  She’s not going away. She’s going to stop here forever.
(music) To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part.
(obsolete) To punctuate.
- if his sentences were properly stopped
(nautical) To make fast; to stopper.
(phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop.

Conjugation

Usage notes

This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) to indicate the ending action, or the to infinitive to indicate the purpose of the interruption. See Appendix:English catenative verbs for more information.

Synonyms

(to cease moving): brake, desist, halt; See also Thesaurus:stop
(to not continue): blin, cease, desist, discontinue, halt, terminate; See also Thesaurus:desist
(to cause to cease moving): arrest, freeze, halt; See also Thesaurus:immobilize
(to cause to come to an end): blin, cancel, cease, discontinue, halt, terminate; See also Thesaurus:end
(to tarry): hang about, hang around, linger, loiter, pause; See also Thesaurus:tarry
(to reside temporarily): lodge, stop over; See also Thesaurus:sojourn

Antonyms

(to cease moving): continue, go, move, proceed
(to not continue): continue, proceed
(to cause to cease moving): continue, move
(to cause to come to an end): continue, move

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Finnish: stop
→ French: stop
→ Hungarian: stop
→ Irish: stop
→ Italian: stop
→ Latvian: stop
→ Polish: stop
→ Portuguese: stop
→ Russian: стоп (stop)
→ Spanish: stop
→ Welsh: stopio
→ Tok Pisin: stap

Translations

Noun

stop (plural stops)

A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station.
Related terms: halt, station.
An action of stopping; interruption of travel.
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, Journal of the Plague Year
  It is […] doubtful […] whether it contributed anything to the stop of the infection.
- Occult qualities put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy.
- It is a great step toward the mastery of our desires to give this stop to them.
That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment.
- A fatal stop trauerst their headlong course
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Advantages of conversing with good Men
  So melancholy a prospect should inspire us with zeal to oppose some stop to the rising torrent.
A device intended to block the path of a moving object
1. (engineering) A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought.
2. (architecture) A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts.
(linguistics) A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis.
Synonyms: plosive, occlusive
A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon.
(music) A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ.
(music) One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced.
(tennis) A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible.
(soccer) A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal
(zoology) The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones.
(photography) A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light.
(photography) A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image.
(photography) An f-stop.
The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
(fencing) A coup d’arret, or stop thrust.

Derived terms

Translations

References

Punctuation mark

stop

Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English stoppe, from Old English stoppa (“bucket, pail, a stop”), from Proto-Germanic *stuppô (“vat, vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teub- (“to push, hit; stick, stump”). See stoup.

Noun

stop (plural stops)

(Britain dialectal) A small well-bucket; a milk-pail.

Translations

Etymology 3

s- +‎ top

Adjective

stop (not comparable)

(physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of a top quark.

Anagrams

OTPs, POST, POTS, PTOs, Post, Spot, TPOs, opts, post, post-, post., pots, spot, tops

Danish

Verb

stop

imperative of stoppe

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stɔp/
Hyphenation: stop
Rhymes: -ɔp

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch stoppe. See the verb stoppen.

Noun

stop m (plural stoppen, diminutive stopje n)

An action of stopping, cessation.
A plug for a sink, a stopper.
An electric fuse.
Synonyms: smeltstop, zekering

Derived terms

smeltstop
stopcontact
stoppenkast

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

stop

first-person singular present indicative of stoppen
imperative of stoppen

Anagrams

post
spot

Finnish

Interjection

stop

stop (halt)
stop (end-of-sentence indicator in telegrams)

Synonyms

(halt): seis

French

Etymology

1792. Borrowed from English stop.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stɔp/

Interjection

stop!

stop!

Noun

stop m (uncountable)

stop sign
hitchhiking

Derived terms

auto-stop
stop américain
stop-motion
stopper

Descendants

→ Moroccan Arabic: سطوب‎

Anagrams

pots, spot

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English stop.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈʃtopː], [ˈʃtop]
Rhymes: -opː, -op

Interjection

stop

halt! stop!

Punctuation

stop

stop (used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram)

Noun

stop (plural stopok)

(colloquial) stop sign (a red sign on the side of a street instructing vehicles to stop)
(colloquial) hitchhike (an act of hitchhiking, trying to get a ride in a passing vehicle while standing at the side of a road)

Declension

Derived terms

stopfürdő
stoptábla

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English stop, from Middle English stoppen, from Old English stoppian (“to stop, close”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sˠt̪ˠɔpˠ/

Verb

stop (present analytic stopann, future analytic stopfaidh, verbal noun stopadh, past participle stoptha)

to stop

Conjugation

Synonyms

stad

Noun

stop m (genitive singular stop, nominative plural stopanna)

a stop (place to get on and off line buses or trams; interruption of travel; device to block path)

Declension

Synonyms

stad

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English stop.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈstɔp/

Interjection

stop

stop!, halt!

Noun

stop m

stop (roadsign; bus stop etc; block)

Anagrams

post, post-, spot

Latvian

Etymology

Borrowed from English stop.

Interjection

stop!

stop!, halt!

Polish

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stɔp/
Rhymes: -ɔp

Etymology 1

Deverbal of stopić.

Noun

stop m inan

(chemistry) an alloy; a mixture of metals.

Declension

Synonyms

aliaż (obsolete)

Verb

stop

second-person singular imperative of stopić

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English stop.

Interjection

stop

stop!, halt!

Noun

stop m inan

a stop sign.
(colloquial) a vehicle’s brake light.
(colloquial) hitchhiking.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English stop.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈstɔp/, /ˈstɔ.pi/

Noun

stop m (plural stops)

stop (function or button that causes a device to stop operating)
(uncountable) A game in which the players write on paper one word from each category (animal, fruit, etc.), all beginning with the same letter, as quickly as possible. In Spanish: tutti frutti.
Synonym: adedanha
(stock market) stop loss order (order to close one’s position if the market drops to a specified price level)
(colloquial) stop; end (the act of putting a stop to something)

Interjection

stop!

Said by a player of the game of stop to cease the current turn, after which the players count how many words they wrote.

Romanian

Etymology

From French stop.

Noun

stop n (uncountable)

stop

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English stop.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /esˈtop/, [esˈt̪op]

Interjection

stop

stop

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse staup (“small glass for liquor”)

Noun

stop n

beer mug.
stoup

Declension

Synonyms

sejdel

Anagrams

post

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what is difference between halt and stop

English

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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