The difference between Brake and Halt

When used as nouns, brake means a fern, whereas halt means a cessation, either temporary or permanent.

When used as verbs, brake means to bruise and crush, whereas halt means to limp.

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

check bellow for the other definitions of Brake and Halt

  1. Brake as a noun:

    A fern; bracken.

  1. Brake as a noun:

    A thicket, or an area overgrown with briers etc.

  1. Brake as a noun:

    A tool used for breaking flax or hemp.

  2. Brake as a noun:

    A type of machine for bending sheet metal. (See wikipedia.)

  3. Brake as a noun:

    A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after ploughing; a drag.

  1. Brake as a verb (transitive):

    To bruise and crush; to knead

    Examples:

    "The farmer's son brakes the flax while mother brakes the bread dough"

  2. Brake as a verb (transitive):

    To pulverise with a harrow

  1. Brake as a noun (military):

    An ancient engine of war analogous to the crossbow and ballista. The winch of a crossbow.

  2. Brake as a noun (chiefly, _, nautical):

    The handle of a pump.

  3. Brake as a noun (engineering):

    A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle, by friction; also, the controls or apparatus used to engage such a mechanism such as the pedal in a car. The act of braking, of using a brake to slow down a machine or vehicle An apparatus for testing the power of a steam engine or other motor by weighing the amount of friction that the motor will overcome; a friction brake. Something used to retard or stop some action, process etc.

  4. Brake as a noun:

    A baker's kneading trough.

    Examples:

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  5. Brake as a noun:

    A device used to confine or prevent the motion of an animal. A frame for confining a refractory horse while the smith is shoeing him. An enclosure to restrain cattle, horses, etc. A cart or carriage without a body, used in breaking in horses. A carriage for transporting shooting parties and their equipment.

  6. Brake as a noun:

    That part of a carriage, as of a movable battery, or engine, which enables it to turn.

  1. Brake as a verb (intransitive):

    To operate (a) brake(s).

  2. Brake as a verb (intransitive):

    To be stopped or slowed (as if) by braking.

  1. Brake as a noun (obsolete):

    A cage.

  2. Brake as a noun (now, _, historical):

    A type of torture instrument.

  1. Brake as a verb (archaic):

  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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