Čo znamená halt v angličtine a aká je definícia halt?

V tomto najautoritatívnejšom anglickom slovníku sa môžete naučiť halt výslovnosť, gramatika a synonymá.

halt Význam & definícia

0 to (cause to) stop moving or doing something or happening:
- "Halt!" called the guard. "You can't go any further without a permit."
- Production has halted at all of the company's factories because of the pay dispute.
- Security forces halted the demonstrators by blocking the road.
1 an occasion when something stops moving or happening:
- the recent halt in production
- Severe flooding has brought trains to a halt (= prevented them from moving) on several lines in Scotland.
- The bus came to a halt (= stopped) just in time to avoid hitting the wall.
- If traffic increases beyond a certain level, the city grinds to a halt (= stops completely).
- The car screeched to a halt (= stopped suddenly and noisily) just as the lights turned red.
- How many more people will have to die before they call a halt to the fighting?
2 to stop something, or to bring something to a stop:
- [ I ] "Halt!" ordered the guard.
- [ T ] Congress voted additional funds in an effort to halt the spread of the disease.
- [ T ] Nationwide, mail delivery was halted by the strike.

The government has had to take measures to halt the population explosion.
The government must take measures, he said, to halt the country's slide into recession.
The ever-increasing demand for private cars could be halted by more investment in public transport.
Filming was halted after the lead actor became ill.
Building at the site was halted after human remains were unearthed earlier this month.
Are we spending too much, too little, or about the right amount on halting the rising crime rate?
Even if all transmission between flocks was halted in 2000, the minimum size of the outbreak would be almost 300 farms.
In fact, a stopping rule is optimal if and only if it has a halting state [12].