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halo-
(word root) saltExamples of words with the root halo-: halophyte
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ha·lo
(hā′lō)n. pl. ha·los or ha·loes
1.
a. A luminous ring or disk of light surrounding the heads or bodies of sacred figures, such as saints, in religious paintings; a nimbus.
b. A ring or disk resembling the halo of a sacred figure: "She had a halo of red hair floating over a delicate ivory face" (Judith Ortiz Cofer).
c. A feeling of glory, reverence, or admiration associated with a person or thing: "By the 1930s, insulin's halo had begun to tarnish, for it became clear that patients who had the illness ... were prone to problems of the small blood vessel" (James S. Hirsch).
2.
a. A circular band of colored light around a light source, as around the sun or moon, caused by the refraction and reflection of light by ice particles suspended in the intervening atmosphere.
b. A roughly spherical region of relatively dust-free space surrounding a galaxy and extending beyond the visible parts of the galaxy. Galactic halos contain stars (often located in globular clusters), gas, and dark matter.
tr.v. ha·loed, ha·lo·ing, ha·loes
To encircle with a halo.
[Medieval Latin halō, from accusative of Latin halōs, from Greek, threshing floor, disk of or around the sun or moon.]
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halo
(ˈheɪləʊ)n, pl -loes or -los
1. (Art Terms) a disc or ring of light around the head of an angel, saint, etc, as in painting or sculpture
2. the aura surrounding an idealized, famous, or admired person, thing, or event
3. (Physical Geography) a circle of light around the sun or moon, caused by the refraction of light by particles of ice
4. (Astronomy) astronomy a spherical cloud of stars surrounding the Galaxy and other spiral galaxies
vb, -loes, -los, -loing or -loed
to surround with or form a halo
[C16: from Medieval Latin, from Latin halōs circular threshing floor, from Greek]
ˈhalo-ˌlike adj
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ha•lo
(ˈheɪ loʊ)n., pl. -los, -loes, n.
1. Also called nimbus. the representation, as in pictures or statuary, of a radiant light, usu. in the shape of a disk, ring, or rayed form, above or around the head of a divine, holy, or greatly exalted personage.
2. something suggesting such a light or shape.
4. any of a variety of bright circles or arcs centered on the sun or moon, caused by the refraction or reflection of light by ice crystals suspended in the earth's atmosphere (disting. from corona).
v.t. 5. to surround with a halo.
v.i. 6. to form a halo.
[1555–65; < Latin, acc. of halōs circle round sun or moon < Greek hálōs orig., disk, threshing floor]
halo-
a combining form meaning “salt” (halophyte), “halogen” (halothane).
[< Greek, comb. form of háls salt]
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ha·lo
(hā′lō) A hazy ring of colored light in the sky around the sun, the moon, or a similar bright object. It is caused by the reflection and refraction of light through ice crystals suspended in the upper atmosphere.
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halo
Past participle: haloed
Gerund: haloing
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| Noun | 1. |  halo - an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint |
| 2. |  halo - a toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of smoke"fairy circle, fairy ring - a ring of fungi marking the periphery of the perennial underground growth of the mycelium toroid - the doughnut-shaped object enclosed by a torus | |
| 3. | halo - a circle of light around the sun or moon atmospheric phenomenon - a physical phenomenon associated with the atmosphere parhelic circle, parhelic ring, solar halo - a luminous halo parallel to the horizon at the altitude of the sun; caused by ice crystals in the atmosphere |
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halo
noun ring of light, aura, corona, radiance, nimbus, halation (Photography), aureole or aureola The sun had a faint halo round it.
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Translations
هالَة الشَّمس أو القَمَرهالَه حَول الرأس في صورَه
svatozářsvětelný kruh kolem slunce nebo měsíce
gloriekoronalysring
halokehäsädekehä
तेजोमंडल
glórianapgyűrűfényudvar
geislabaugurrosabaugur
輪っか
ratilas
apdārzsnimbs
aureolahalo
halosvätožiaražiara
nimbusoreolнимбусореол
gloria
haleayla
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halo
n pl <-(e)s> (of saint, fig iro) → Heiligenschein m; (Astron) → Hof m, → Halo m (spec); his halo slipped → er büßte seinen Heiligenschein ein
vt (fig) → umrahmen
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halo
(ˈheiləu) – plural ˈhalo(e)s – noun1. a ring of light round the sun or moon.
2. a similar ring of light round the head of a holy person in a picture etc.
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ha·lo
n. aureola.
1. área del seno de tono más oscuro que rodea el pezón;
2. círculo de luz;
___ sign → señal de muerte fetal.
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halo
n halo mEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.