HALTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does halting mean? 

• HALTING (adjective)
  The adjective HALTING has 2 senses:

1. disabled in the feet or legs

2. fragmentary or halting from emotional strain

  Familiarity information: HALTING used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disabled in the feet or legs

Synonyms:

crippled; game; gimpy; halt; halting; lame

Context example:

a game leg

Similar:

unfit (not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fragmentary or halting from emotional strain

Context example:

uttered a few halting words of sorrow

Similar:

broken (not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly)

 Context examples 

Not that!” and he snapped his big fingers, halting a moment on his crutch.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The researchers induced surgical stress in mice by temporarily halting blood flow to the liver.

(Pathways Underlying the Benefits of Calorie Restriction, NIH)

The black-eyed girl smiled gratification and greeting, and showed signs of stopping, while her companion, arm linked in arm, giggled and likewise showed signs of halting.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

This results in halting bacterial growth.

(Ethambutol, NCI Thesaurus)

"Now mush-on!" And the dog ceased his swing abruptly and started straight ahead, halting obediently at command.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Him we enlisted at Para, on the recommendation of the steamship company, on whose vessels he had learned to speak a halting English.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The results provided evidence of multiple mechanisms by which the antibodies inhibit actions of all forms of GP, thus preventing infection by halting viral entry into the host cell.

(Broadly acting antibodies found in plasma of Ebola survivors, National Institutes of Health)

But these processes also disperse the gas and dust, breaking up dense clumps and reducing or halting new star formation.

('Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars, NASA)

Although the exact mechanism of action is unknown, kanglaite exhibits an antineoplastic effect, potentially via interfering with the cell cycle and halting tumor cells in the G2/M phase, which may eventually inhibit mitosis and proliferation of cancer cells.

(Kanglaite, NCI Thesaurus)

Any material sample taken from a biological entity for testing, diagnostic, propagation, treatment or research purposes, including a sample obtained from a living organism or taken from the biological object after halting of all its life functions.

(Biospecimen, NCI Thesaurus)