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halo

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1. halo - Noun

2. halo - Verb

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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.

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.

An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.

A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.

To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. H. G. Wells

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo. Irving Layton

In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face - the face of one long dead - Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I could make Halo. It's not that I couldn't design that game. It's just that I choose not to. One thing about my game design is that I never try to look for what people want and then try to make that game design. I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play. Shigeru Miyamoto

Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty. Robert A. Heinlein

A halo only needs to drop a few inches to become a noose. Cowboy Proverb

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