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halting

adj

Definitions

  1. Prone to pauses or breaks

    Prone to pauses or breaks; hesitant; broken.

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

  2. present participle and gerund of halt

  3. The action of one who halts

    The action of one who halts; a stopping or hesitancy.

    • But alas ! alas ! the faintings, the haltings, the back-slidings of Christians, are enough to make us tremble while we rejoice in the hope set before us.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at halting. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at halting. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at halting

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA