Difference between Halt and Stanch

HALT vs STANCH: NOUN

A disease in sheep.
The act of limping; lameness; a defect in gait.
A stop; a suspension of progress in walking, riding, or going in any manner, and especially in marching.
A suspension of movement or progress, especially a temporary one.
A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress.
The act of limping; lameness.
The state of inactivity following an interruption
The event of something ending
A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom.
An interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement
Lameness; a limp.
A cessation, either temporary or permanent.

A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
That which stanches or checks.
That which stanches; that which quenches or allays.
A flood-gate in a river for accumulating a head of water to float boats over shallows; a weir. See stank.

To have an irregular rhythm; to be defective.
To walk lamely; to limp.
To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; to hesitate; to be uncertain.
To stop; pause.
To hold one's self from proceeding; to hold up; to cease progress; to stop for a longer or shorter period; to come to a stop; to stand still.
To be defective or proceed poorly, as in the development of an argument in logic or in the rhythmic structure of verse.
To proceed or act with uncertainty or indecision; waver.
To walk lamely or move in an irregular fashion.
To cause to stop: : stop.

To extinguish; to quench, as fire or thirst.
To prop; to make stanch, or strong.
To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from.
To stop or check the flow of (blood or tears, for example).
To stop the flow of blood from (a wound).
To stop, check, or allay.

Cause to come to an abrupt stop
To limp; move with a limping gait.
To stand in doubt; hesitate; linger; delay.
To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection of ideas, or in measure or versification: as, a halting metaphor; a halting sonnet.
Lame; not able to walk without limping.
To stop in walking or going; cease to advance; stop for a longer or shorter time on a march, as a body of troops.
To bring to a stand; cause to cease marching: as, the general halted his troops.
A Middle English contraction of haldeth, equivalent to holdeth, third person singular of the present indicative of hold.
3d pers. sing. pres. of hold, contraction for holdeth.

To cause to cease flowing; check the flow of.
To stop a flow from; dry, as a wound, by the application of a styptic.
To quench; allay; assuage.
To free; relieve: with of.
To stop flowing; be stanched.
To stop; cease.
Dry; free from water; water-tight; sound: said of a vessel.
Sound and trustworthy; true: applied to hounds with reference to their keeping the scent.
Sound or firm in principle; loyal; hearty; trustworthy.
Synonyms Stout, steadfast, resolute, stable, unwavering.
Strong; firm.

Unfit, Stay, Staunch, Hitch, Arrest, Hold, Settle, Stoppage, Block, Crippled, Stem, Kibosh, Stanch, Freeze, Stop

Alleviate, Curtail, Prevent, Curb, Avert, Tamp down, Stanched, Slake, Resuscitate, Forestall, Stave off, Quell, Halt, Staunch, Stem

Lame, Unfit, Stay, Staunch, Hitch, Arrest, Hold, Settle, Stoppage, Block, Crippled, Stem, Stanch, Freeze, Stop

Revive, Pacify, Relieve, Curtail, Prevent, Curb, Avert, Tamp down, Resuscitate, Forestall, Stave off, Quell, Halt, Staunch, Stem

Halt Auction from being reviewed as clearly erroneous.
Japanese cry halt, for this is sacred ground.
NOTE: This message does not halt the Loader.
Oversoul spectre could halt the great evil beast.
These actions detect and halt specific Windows processes.
Regional Water Quality Control Board had ordered halt Regional Water Quality Control Board had ordered halt to hookups until extra sewer capacity created.
Halt at a station as per the scheduled halt time as prescribed in main Indian railway time table has time.
May or may not halt at a Station as per the scheduled halt time for this train starts at and.
To Halt, Step, Walk, and Resume a task Halt button will become active after you select a running task.
To halt from double time, the command Flight, HALT is given as either foot strikes the ground, with four steps between commands.

Both father and daughter have been lifelong stanch supporters of the Tibetan movement.
Santa Fe, it found, at most seemed to modestly stanch that decline.
Then I shall want two stanch men, in case of resistance.
Rankin is a stanch Republican, and has rilled various township offices.
While he was always a stanch Republican in politics proper, Mr.
There is no more ardent or stanch Republican than Mr.
The release also sought to stanch any diplomatic fallout.
Hong Kong as authorities seek to stanch economic contraction.
In politics he has always been a stanch Democrat.
Stanch, Staunch, to stop a flow of blood.