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• Hal
  Hal

  noun

  a male given name, form of Harold.
• HAL
  HAL

  abbreviation

  halogen lamp.
• hal-
  hal-

  variant of halo- before a vowel.

Hal

¹ American  

[hal] / hæl /

noun

1. a male given name, form of Harold.

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HAL ² American  

abbreviation

1. halogen lamp.

   The KL 1500 HAL is a 150-watt halogen cold light source.

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hal- ³ American  

1. variant of halo- before a vowel.

   halite.

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hal- British  

combining form

1. a variant of halo-

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He recalls the moment when he realized that his impressive-seeming Uncle Hal, a great talker, often made vainglorious boasts without “a grain of truth” to them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

George’s son Hal doesn’t run hot like his late father.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

That much was a given on “Lanterns” from the moment HBO debuted the first images of Aaron Pierre’s John and Kyle Chandler’s Hal Jordan – there’s that, and DC Comics’ established lore.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026

‘Lanterns’ star Kyle Chandler talks about his character Hal Jordan and the dynamic with John Stewart, his love of grouchy characters and that Episode 1 ending.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Hal Mollen rode beside her, bearing the banner of House Stark, the grey direwolf on an ice-white field.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Halliburton HAL -1.55%decrease; down pointing triangle reported higher profit and revenue in the latest quarter, driven by improving trends across its drilling-and-evaluation segment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

“The upward trend has paused. After the gains of the previous months, this is quite normal,” said Alexander Krueger, chief economist at Bethmann HAL.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Later that night, the festival would hold an outdoor screening of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” featuring HAL 9000, one of cinema’s most famous rogue artificial intelligences.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

This snarky, self-aware couple is the type to build themselves a smart house and name its system HAL.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025

HAL turned quickly, to see if any of his men had been hit.

From Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

Dutch and Ger.; all are from the Teutonic base hal-, pre-Teut. kal-, to cover; cf.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" by Various

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