() 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth.
(n.) A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress.
(v. i.) To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still.
(v. i.) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain.
(v. t.) To cause to cease marching; to stop; as, the general halted his troops for refreshment.
(a.) Halting or stopping in walking; lame.
(n.) The act of limping; lameness.
(a.) To walk lamely; to limp.
(a.) To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(2) It pulled to a halt and a bodyguard got out and knocked me unconscious.
(3) An otherwise progressive rise in blood ammonia concentration was halted in the treatment group.
(4) It inherited an economy that was growing quite strongly but activity came to an abrupt halt last autumn and has flatlined ever since.
(5) The further disappearance of laboratory exercises from the curriculum should be halted by efforts to revitalize them.
(6) What we’re saying is the advertising is false.” Prosecutors are not asking the court to halt the company’s services while the suit proceeds.
(7) Britain is being urged to halt the supply of weapons to its ally Saudi Arabia in the light of evidence that civilians are being killed in Saudi-led attacks on rebel forces in Yemen .
(8) Vomiting ceased in 85% of the symptomatic patients; pulmonary deterioration was halted, and the frequency of aspiration pneumonia was reduced in 68%; nutritional improvement was seen in 44%; the hydration status improved in 88%; and the frequency of hospital admissions decreased in 74%.
(9) That's why the policies that are desperately needed for the majority to break the grip of a failed economic model would also help make regulated migration work for all: stronger trade unions, a higher minimum wage, a shift from state-subsidised low pay to a living wage, a crash housing investment programme, a halt to cuts in public services, and an end to the outsourced race to the bottom in employment conditions.
(10) Trains in the northern Netherlands were halted, Dutch Railways said.
(11) We have described methods to prepare ternary complexes halted at defined positions along the DNA template, using specific dinucleotides to prime chain initiation along with limited subsets of the NTP substrates.
(12) The AP reports: The incremental assistance would be aimed both at bolstering the Ukrainian military as it seeks to halt the advances of pro-Russian forces in the east, as well as showing symbolic U.S. support for Ukraine's efforts.
(13) Occupy activists have lost their case at the court of appeal to halt their eviction from an abandoned London building that previously housed the multinational banking giant, UBS.
(14) Protests against the four grocers will be halted while agreements over the new price for milk are finalised.
(15) Serum amino transferase values need to be checked once during the 1st 3-6 months of use, although routine liver tests have been halted.
(16) The construction of Fab 42 was halted in 2014 , following a slump in PC sales, but analysts don’t believe Trump is the reason it’s been restarted.
(17) In my case the phone went silent after a couple of weeks and the programme I worked on then came to an abrupt halt.
(18) I appeal to the king of Saudi Arabia to exercise his power to halt the public flogging by pardoning Mr Badawi, and to urgently review this type of extraordinarily harsh penalty.” Badawi’s case was one of several recent prosecutions of activists.
(19) The case for halting British arms sales to Saudi Arabia has been evident, not only on moral grounds, since civilians started dying in the conflict devastating Yemen.
(20) UN envoy Staffan De Mistura halted the latest Syria talks on 3 February, because of major differences between the two sides, exacerbated by increased aerial bombings and a wide military offensive by Syrian troops and their allies under the cover of Russian airstrikes.
Hilt
Definition:
(n.) A handle; especially, the handle of a sword, dagger, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) The claw of a hammer was placed beneath the hilt of the knife for additional leverage, and the weapon was thereupon successfully removed.
(2) The magnificent bronze Beaune Dirk is a princely dagger, but could not have been intended for practical use: the blade was never sharpened, nor the end drilled to attach a wooden hilt.
(3) Analyse what we do best and invest in our talents to the hilt.
(4) This man’s “private life” is subsidised to the hilt by the taxpayer, and that is what really sticks in the craw.
(5) Since launching the war on terror, the US and its allies have attacked and occupied Afghanistan and Iraq; bombed Libya; killed thousands in drone attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia; imposed devastating sanctions; backed Israel's occupation and dispossession of the Palestinians to the hilt; carried out large-scale torture, kidnapping and internment without trial; maintained multiple bases to protect client dictatorships throughout the region; and now threaten Iran with another act of illegal war.
(6) But instead the US, Britain and other European powers finance, arm and back to the hilt Israel's occupation, including the siege of Gaza – precisely to prevent Palestinians obtaining the arms that would allow them to protect themselves against Israeli military might.
(7) There are some that are mortgaged up to the hilt, and that’s dangerous stuff.
(8) Canada does not mind other jurisdictions taxing their banks to the hilt, but it has no desire to impose a levy on its own banks, which after all, did not need bailing out.
(9) But Thatcher would have backed Hammond to the hilt.
(10) "And all of them, every single one of them, are prepared to go to the hilt in order to isolate Russia with respect to this invasion," Kerry said.
(11) In stark contrast to her approach to domestic affairs, Thatcher scrupulously deferred to her military commanders and supported their decisions to the hilt.
(12) Employment law has become ridiculously opaque and employers take full advantage of that and arrive lawyered up to the hilt.
(13) That makes it an enticing prospect for Glazer-style financing - mortgage a rock-solid asset up to the hilt in order to crank up the potential returns.
(14) He pledged anew that Nato partners including those that border Ukraine or Russia would be defended to the hilt if their sovereignty is threatened.
(15) Yet one in six households are currently mortgaged to the hilt, servicing home loans that are at least four times the size of their annual salary, in further evidence of the intense vulnerability of many homeowners to rate hikes.
(16) The latter was praised to the hilt for display against Uruguay, with his Colombia coach, José Pékerman, saying Rodríguez has “every attribute of a top-notch player at a world level” and that he “never had any doubts that this was going to be his World Cup”.
(17) Three guilty of Hatton Garden heist as Kenneth Noye link revealed Read more The other, Brian Reader, aimed a kick at the man: John Fordham, a specialist police surveillance officer, who had been stabbed five times in the front and five times in the back, with such force that a knife was plunged into his body up to its hilt.
(18) Bayern Munich 3-0 Barcelona (Robben 73) I've defended those blokes with the wands behind the goal to the hilt, but I'm not going to attempt it here.
(19) We have to fight for every penny we get, but then we spend it to the hilt on the pupils.
(20) He added that G8 nations and some other countries are “prepared to go to the hilt to isolate Russia” with a “broad array of options” available.