To falter.
halted
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for halted.
Editorial note
By definitions 4a - 4c, the market is halted, illiquid, or frozen.
Quick take
To falter.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of halted gathered in one view.
To waver.
(intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for halted.
verb
To falter.
verb
To waver.
verb
(intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
verb
(intransitive) To stop marching.
Example sentences
By definitions 4a - 4c, the market is halted, illiquid, or frozen.
Graphene will see adoption, but will probably be halted at the first sign of asbestos like diseases.
They spammed the skill until you got a skill gain, then halted the boat, stepped it forward 8, and tried agian.
The latter one can potentially be halted, the first one leads to irreversible information loss.
Maybe that halted the possible cooling effects of soot, and allowed temperatures to start rising.
Sure, but that's not what I'm referring to: Anytime a stock drop by a given percentage, it is halted.
Also, if the market drops by a percentage, the entire market is halted.
Has the development of the Neo900 halted or run into serious issues?
The pre-IPO bids for Facebook at SecondMarket were substantially higher than the original IPO (first-day trading price), less than a week before private trading was halted.
Sorry for the dealy, I submitted too many messages and was halted.
Much as I love this project, I think it should be halted.
The Swiss have for the moment halted streetview.
Quote examples
It hasn't halted and it didn't run into "serious issues" (blockers).
Further there's a huge difference between "what this system is designed to do all day every day" and "what this system will do in the 5 minutes between an earthquake beginning and the time that the system is fully halted until repairs can be made" Have you ever seen the remains of a power pole hanging from a power line?
This is a good initiative because LuaJIT development has been mostly halted since May 2014, when the following note was added to the LuaJIT Open Sponsorships page: "The main LuaJIT author (Mike Pall) is working on unrelated projects and cannot accept new sponsorships at this time..." [1] Since then, Mike has only made bugfix commits to the project.
"Similarly, at the international level, the global free fall following the 2008 crisis was largely halted by the move, under the visionary leadership of Gordon Brown, for a meeting of the governments of the newly formed G20 in April 2009 in London, each promising to do its best not to feed the downward spiral by domestic complicity." I think that is the first time I've heard Gordon Brown described as visionary.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use halted in a sentence?
By definitions 4a - 4c, the market is halted, illiquid, or frozen.
What does halted mean?
To falter.
What part of speech is halted?
halted is commonly used as verb.