The difference between Arrest and Halt

When used as nouns, arrest means a check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something, whereas halt means a cessation, either temporary or permanent.

When used as verbs, arrest means to stop the motion of (a person or animal), whereas halt means to limp.

Halt is also adjective with the meaning: lame, limping.

check bellow for the other definitions of Arrest and Halt

  1. Arrest as a noun:

    A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something.

  2. Arrest as a noun:

    The condition of being stopped, standstill.

  3. Arrest as a noun (legal):

    The process of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

  4. Arrest as a noun:

    A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.

  5. Arrest as a noun:

    A device to physically arrest motion.

  6. Arrest as a noun (nautical):

    The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.

  7. Arrest as a noun (obsolete):

    Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.

  8. Arrest as a noun (farriery):

    A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek White"

  1. Arrest as a verb (obsolete, transitive):

    To stop the motion of (a person or animal).

  2. Arrest as a verb (obsolete, intransitive):

    To stay, remain.

    Examples:

    "rfquotek Spenser"

  3. Arrest as a verb (transitive):

    To stop or slow (a process, course etc.).

  4. Arrest as a verb (transitive):

    To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.

    Examples:

    "The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry."

  5. Arrest as a verb (transitive):

    To catch the attention of.

  1. Halt as a verb (intransitive):

    To limp; move with a limping gait.

  2. Halt as a verb (intransitive):

    To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer.

  3. Halt as a verb (intransitive):

    To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification.

  4. Halt as a verb:

    To waver.

  5. Halt as a verb:

    To falter.

  1. Halt as a verb (intransitive):

    To stop marching.

  2. Halt as a verb (intransitive):

    To stop either temporarily or permanently.

  3. Halt as a verb (transitive):

    To bring to a stop.

  4. Halt as a verb (transitive):

    To cause to discontinue.

    Examples:

    "The contract negotiations halted operations for at least a week."

  1. Halt as a noun:

    A cessation, either temporary or permanent.

    Examples:

    "The contract negotiations put a halt to operations."

  2. Halt as a noun (rail):

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

    Examples:

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

  1. Halt as an adjective (archaic):

    Lame, limping.

  1. Halt as a noun (dated):

    Lameness; a limp.

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