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单词 halt sign
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halt sign
b. Military. In the imperative, a word of command. Also formerly used as a command in traffic regulations and on road signs. So halt notice, halt sign. Also transferred.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > do not move [interjection] > command to stop
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society > armed hostility > military organization > orders > order [interjection] > order to stop
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > vehicular traffic > [noun] > traffic control > road sign > specific
halt sign1932
no-entry sign1937
yield sign1951
give-way sign1963
sharrow2004
1796 Instr. & Regulations Cavalry 93 The officer of the second division gives his word Wheel!..and then Halt! Dress! when the wheel is completed.
1932 E. Wallace When Gangs came to London xx. 175 He caught Terry's eye and abruptly changed the subject. When they were outside: ‘What was that halt sign?’ demanded Jiggs.
1935 Highway Code 21 (caption) Halt sign.
1958 A. Wilson Middle Age of Mrs Eliot ii. 153 David, recognizing the Grimm quotation as a halt sign, laughed too.
1965 D. M. Devine His Own Appointed Day i. ii. 17 Left, here. Then turn right at the halt sign.
1967 M. Summerton Memory of Darkness ii. 21 He had driven through a halt sign, and collided with an on-coming tanker.
1969 Times 15 July 7/3 What are the advantages of the Give Way signs? Why cannot the Ministry go back to the old safer Halt notices?
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