() 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.
Outstrip
Definition:
(v. t.) To go faster than; to outrun; to advance beyond; to leave behing.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, rights being accrued are outstripping receipts.
(2) With global remittances tripling over the past decade and now outstripping official aid, diaspora groups and international NGOs urgently need to find ways of working together more effectively.
(3) Four children have sickle-cell anaemia, two sickle-cell haemoglobin C disease, one has sickle-cell thalassaemia, and one is asymptomatic haemoglobin C thalassaemia.It is emphasized that the contribution that adult sickle-cell disease patients make, through procreation, to the persistence of the S gene may be greater than is normally supposed, and that this contribution may soon outstrip that made by balanced polymorphism through falciparum malaria.
(4) The film became Allen's highest-grossing in North America ever, outstripping Hannah and Her Sisters.
(5) The public sector will buy a lot of that technology at first (52% of the market over the next 10 years), but private sector customers will outstrip public sector buyers of space-based IP in the longer term, it said.
(6) Although it had been anticipated that affordable private rents in expensive inner city areas such as Westminster would be scarce, the acute housing shortage in the capital means market rents outstrip benefit cap levels in cheaper outer London boroughs including Haringey, Waltham Forest, and Barking and Dagenham.
(7) Green organisations – who, if conservation groups such as the National Trust are included, boast a combined membership of millions, far outstripping any political party – are gearing up for that fight.
(8) The headline rate of annual pay growth looks set to have outstripped consumer price index inflation in February.
(9) In London and the south-east, house price growth has outstripped wages and the lower costs of living, making it more difficult to buy.
(10) Many will remain trapped in their parents' homes as property prices continue to outstrip earnings, warns the NHF.
(11) The prevalence of these conditions outstrips the medical profession's efficiency and effectiveness in dealing with them.
(12) Apple has delayed the international launch of its iPad computer for a month, blaming "surprisingly strong US demand" that has outstripped its ability to produce them.
(13) The demand for qualified nurses continues to outstrip the existing and anticipated supply.
(14) Unfortunately, as demand went up, the number of organic producers and the acreage of organic farms declined, leading to fears that soon demand would outstrip supply.
(15) The government did not publish the overall domestic security budget, which has outstripped military spending in recent years.
(16) But now 86% of the world’s population lives in countries where the demands made on nature - the nation’s “ecological footprint” - outstrip what that country’s resources can cope with.
(17) The very day after the PM pledged to back HS3, London mayor Boris Johnson announced that the Treasury had pledged to half-fund Crossrail 2 – at a price far outstripping the sums designated for the trans-Pennine links.
(18) Since pay growth only started to outstrip inflation again at the end of last year – after six years in which the real value of wages fell by about 8% – household finances remain on Labour’s side .
(19) When the latest GDP figures appear next month, the UK could outstrip the US, which has propped up the world economy since the financial crash of 2008.
(20) A more significant factor in the therapeutic advantage of KLH conjugation could be that immunization with BCL1 IgM-KLH led to an earlier induction of the anti-idiotypic response than immunization with BCL1 IgM and, as the BCL1, lymphoma divides rapidly, the speed of induction of the immune response may be important in outstripping tumor cell growth.