halts

/hษ‘lts/

IPA: /HH AO1 L T S/

verb
  1. 1

    To limp; move with a limping gait.

  2. 2

    To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.

  3. 3

    To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.

  4. 4

    To waver.

  5. 5

    To falter.

noun
  1. 1

    A cessation, either temporary or permanent.

    โ€œThe contract negotiations put a halt to operations.โ€

  2. 2

    A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.

    โ€œThe halt itself never achieved much importance, even with workers coming to and from the adjacent works.โ€

verb
  1. 1

    To stop marching.

  2. 2

    To stop either temporarily or permanently.

  3. 3

    To bring to a stop.

  4. 4

    To cause to discontinue.

    โ€œThe contract negotiations halted operations for at least a week.โ€

noun
  1. 1

    Lameness; a limp.

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/halt, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/halts