Usually means: Cease movement or operation completely.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. halt: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. halt, halt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. halt, halt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. halt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. halt, the halt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Halt, halt: Wordnik
  7. halt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. halt: Wiktionary
  9. halt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. halt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. halt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Halt, halt, the halt: Dictionary.com
  13. halt (adj.), halt (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. halt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Halt (railway), Halt, The Halt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Halt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. halt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. halt: Rhymezone
  19. Halt(estelle) (m) (f), Halt (m), halt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. halt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. HALT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. halt, the halt: Free Dictionary
  23. halt, the halt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. halt, the halt: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HALT: Band Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. halt: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technology Terms and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. halt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HALT: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. HALT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. halt: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Halt: Easton Bible
  2. HALT: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. halt: The Folk File
  2. halt: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Halt: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.
verb:  (intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
verb:  (intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
verb:  To waver.
verb:  To falter.
verb:  (intransitive) To stop marching.
verb:  (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
verb:  (transitive) To bring to a stop.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to discontinue.
noun:  A cessation, either temporary or permanent.
noun:  (rail transport) A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
adjective:  (archaic) Lame, limping.
noun:  (dated) Lameness; a limp.
noun:  (British, Ireland) A small railroad station, usually unstaffed or with very few staff, and with few or no facilities.
noun:  Acronym of hungry, angry, lonely, (or) tired.

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