halt vs ultimate

halt

noun
  • A cessation, either temporary or permanent. 

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

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

  • To bring to a stop. 

  • To limp; move with a limping gait. 

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

  • To falter. 

  • To stop marching. 

  • To stop either temporarily or permanently. 

  • To cause to discontinue. 

  • To waver. 

ultimate

noun
  • The final or most distant point; the conclusion 

  • The greatest extremity; the maximum 

  • The most basic or fundamental of a set of things 

adj
  • Being the most distant or extreme; farthest. 

  • That will happen at some time; eventual. 

  • Final; last in a series. 

  • Last in a word or other utterance. 

  • Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme. 

  • Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final. 

  • Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental. 

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