Hallowed vs. Halo — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Hallowed and Halo
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Hallowed
Sanctified; consecrated
A hallowed cemetery.
Halo
A circle of light shown around or above the head of a saint or holy person to represent their holiness.
Hallowed
Highly venerated; sacrosanct
Our hallowed war heroes.
Halo
A circle of white or coloured light around the sun, moon, or other luminous body caused by refraction through ice crystals in the atmosphere.
Hallowed
Consecrated or sanctified; sacred, holy.
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Halo
Surround with or as if with a halo
Gas lamps haloed in mist
Hallowed
Simple past tense and past participle of hallow
Halo
A luminous ring or disk of light surrounding the heads or bodies of sacred figures, such as saints, in religious paintings; a nimbus.
Hallowed
Belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power; made holy. Opposite of unholy.
Halo
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).
Hallowed
Worthy of religious veneration;
The sacred name of Jesus
Jerusalem's hallowed soil
Halo
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).
Halo
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.
Halo
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.
Halo
To encircle with a halo.
Halo
A circular band of coloured light, visible around the sun or moon etc., caused by reflection and refraction of light by ice crystals in the atmosphere.
Halo
(astronomy) A cloud of gas and other matter surrounding and captured by the gravitational field of a large diffuse astronomical object, such as a galaxy or cluster of galaxies.
Halo
Anything resembling this band, such as an effect caused by imperfect developing of photographs.
Halo
(religion) nimbus, a luminous disc, often of gold, around or over the heads of saints, etc., in religious paintings.
Halo
The metaphorical aura of glory, veneration or sentiment which surrounds an idealized entity.
Her halo slipped
Halo
(advertising) The bias caused by the halo effect.
Halo
A circular annulus ring, frequently luminous, often golden, floating above the head
Halo
(medicine) A circular brace used to keep the head and neck in position.
Halo
(motorsport) A rollbar placed in front of the driver, used to protect the cockpit of an open cockpit racecar.
Halo
(automotive) halo headlight
Halo
(transitive) To encircle with a halo.
Halo
A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.
Halo
A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.
Halo
An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.
Halo
A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.
Halo
To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.
The fireThat haloed round his saintly brow.
Halo
An indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint
Halo
A toroidal shape;
A ring of ships in the harbor
A halo of smoke
Halo
A circle of light around the sun or moon
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