haltとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /hɒlt/
  • (Conservative RP) IPA: /hɔːlt/
• (米国発音, lot–cloth split) IPA: /hɔlt/
• (General American, cot–caught merger, dialects of Canada) IPA: /hɑlt/
• (Canada, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /hɒlt/
• (General Australian) IPA: /hɔlt/
• 韻: -ɒlt

語源 1

From 中期英語 halten, from 古期英語 healtian (“to be lame, walk with a limp”), from Proto-West Germanic *haltōn, related to *halt. English usage in the sense of 'make a halt' is from the noun. Cognate with North Frisian halte, Swedish halta.

動詞

halt (third-person singular simple present halts, present participle halting, simple past and past participle halted) (obsolete)

1. (intransitive) To limp; move with a limping gait.
   • c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     Here comes Sir Toby halting — you shall hear more; but if he had not been in drink, he would have tickled you othergates than he did.

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     Do not smile at me that I boast her of,
     For thou shalt find she will outstrip all praise,
     And make it halt behind her.

2. (intransitive) To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 18:21:

     How long halt ye between two opinions?

3. (intransitive) To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.
4. To waver.
5. To falter.

語源 2

From Middle French halt, from early modern German halt (“stop!”), imperative of halten (“to hold, to stop”). Doublet of hold (see that entry for more information).

動詞

halt (third-person singular simple present halts, present participle halting, simple past and past participle halted)

1. (intransitive) To stop marching.
2. (intransitive) To stop either temporarily or permanently.
   • 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     And it was while all were passionately intent upon the pleasing and snake-like progress of their uncle that a young girl in furs, ascending the stairs two at a time, peeped perfunctorily into the nursery as she passed the hallway—and halted amazed.

3. (transitive) To bring to a stop.
4. (transitive) To cause to discontinue.

   The contract negotiations halted operations for at least a week.

同意語

• (to stop marching): pause
• (to stop): brake, desist, stay; See also Thesaurus:stop
• (to cause something to stop): freeze, immobilize; See also Thesaurus:immobilize
• (to cause to discontinue): break off, terminate, shut down, stop; See also Thesaurus:desist

派生語

名詞

halt (plural halts)

1. A cessation, either temporary or permanent.

   The contract negotiations put a halt to operations.

   • 1702–1704, Edward [Hyde, 1st] Earl of Clarendon, “(please specify |book=I to XVI)”, in The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, Begun in the Year 1641. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed at the [Sheldonian] Theater, published 1707, →OCLC:

     Without any halt they marched.

   • 1962 April, R. K. Evans, “The Acceptance Testing of Diesel Locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 268:

     Because most diesel failures can be traced to electrical faults, minor in themselves but often difficult to pin-point, any unscheduled halt during a trial run is often the signal for the frenzied unfolding of wiring diagrams and the appearance of an impressive array of voltmeters and circuit testers.

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

   The halt itself never achieved much importance, even with workers coming to and from the adjacent works.

   • 1956 May, D. B. McNeill, “The Sligo, Leitrim & Northern Counties Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 332:

     The highest point on the line is at milepost 21¾, 367 ft. above sea level. Here there is a halt named Kilmakerrill, after which the line descends to Manorhamilton (24¾ miles).

   • 1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668:

     On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.

同意語

• (cessation: temporary): hiatus, moratorium, recess; see also Thesaurus:pause
• (cessation: permanent): close, endpoint, terminus; see also Thesaurus:finish

派生語

語源 3

From 中期英語 halt, from 古期英語 healt, from Proto-West Germanic *halt, from Proto-Germanic *haltaz (“halt, lame”), from Proto-Indo-European *kol-d-, from Proto-Indo-European *kel- (“to beat, strike, cut, slash”). Cognate with Danish halt, Swedish halt.

形容詞

halt (comparative more halt, superlative most halt)

1. (archaic) Lame, limping.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark:

     It is better for the to goo halt into lyfe, then with ij. fete to be cast into hell […]

   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 14:21:

     Bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

名詞

halt (plural halts)

1. (dated) Lameness; a limp.

派生語

語源 4

Borrowed from French halte.

名詞

halt (plural halts)

1. (British, Ireland) A small railroad station, usually unstaffed or with very few staff, and with few or no facilities.
   • 2024 June 10, Wikipedia contributors, “Train station”, in English Wikipedia‎, Wikimedia Foundation:

     Halts were normally unstaffed, tickets being sold on the train.

派生語

• haltkeeper

アナグラム

• thal, lath, Thal

語源

Inherited from 古期英語 healt, form Proto-West Germanic *halt, from Proto-Germanic *haltaz (“crooked”).

発音

• IPA: /halt/

形容詞

halt (plural and weak singular halte)

1. Limping, lame, crippled.
2. (figuratively) Faulty, shoddy, poor.

関連する語

• halten

派生した語

• English: halt (archaic)
• Middle Scots: halt

参照

• “halt, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.