Definition of Half

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Call given to the actors half an hour before they will be called to the stage for the beginning of a
performance. Given 35 minutes before the advertised time of commencement. Subsequent calls
given are the "quarter" at 20 minutes, "the five" at 10 minutes and "beginners to the stage" at 5
minutes before curtain up. See also Front of House Calls.

(v. t.)
To halve. [Obs.] See Halve.
  

(adv.)
In an equal part or degree; in some pa/ appro/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half persuaded, half conscious.
  

(a.)
Part; side; behalf.
  

(a.)
One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of; as, a half of an apple.
  

(a.)
Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge.
  

(a.)
Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.
  

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half
\half\ (h?f), a. [as. healf, half, half; as a noun, half, side, part; akin to os., ofries., & d. half, g. halb, sw. half, dan. halv, icel. hālfr, goth. halbs. cf. halve, behalf.]
1. consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.
note: the adjective and noun are often united to form a compound.
2. consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge. assumed from thence a half consent.
half
ape (zo?l.), a lemur.
half
back. (football) see under 2d back.
half
bent, the first notch, for the sear point to enter, in the tumbler of a gunlock; the halfcock notch.
half
binding, a style of bookbinding in which only the back and corners are in leather.
half
boarder, one who boards in part; specifically, a scholar at a boarding school who takes dinner only.

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 half seas over 
 half-mast high or half-staff 
 half-lattice girder 
 half snipe 
 second half 
 half step 
 half-cracked 
 half tide 
 half-timbered 
 half round 
 at half cock 
 half tone 
 half-breed 
 half an eye 
 half-round hoop 
 half shift 
 half nelson 
 half-strained 
 half note 
 half ape 
 time and a half 
 half pay 
 a half cock 
 half year 
 half-moon 
 half-blooded 
 half-learned 
 half-boot 
 half-pike 
 half truth 
 half volley 
 half-length 
 half-slip 
 half-mast 
 half-hearted 
 half-hourly 
 half-and-half 
 half-clammed 
 half time 
 half a dozen 
 half-wit 
 half-clothed 
 half tint 
 half-baked 
 half-bred 
 half-breadth plan 
 half-ray 
 half boot 
 half back 
 half-read 
 half cadence 
 half-sister 
 half cap 
 last half 
 half boarder 
 half-sword 

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 half-mast high or half-staff 
 half bent 
 half-and-half 
 half-duplex 
 half binding 
 half-tounue 
 half-faced 
 half blood 
 half-pint 
 half-sighted 
 half-caste 
 half price 
 in half 
 half hitch 
 better half 
 half-brother 
 half hose 
 half-fish 
 half measure 
 half-hatched 
 half heck 
 half-tone 
 half curlew 
 half-bound 
 half-heard 
 half-deck 
 one`s half 
 half-port 
 half dozen 
 half-decked 
 to meet half way 

Meaning
Circumstances have changed suddenly.
Origin
Football (soccer) commentator's cliche.

Meaning
Act hastily.
Origin
Flintlock rifles can be fired from full cock or half cock but only work well from full cock.

Meaning
Pinch (steal).
Origin
Cockney rhyming slang.

leath
half back: leathchúlaí
half baked: leibideach
half caste: meascach
half day: leathlá
half forward: leaththosaí
half hearted: fuarbhruite
half hour: leathuair
half mast: ar leathfholuain
half price: leathphraghas
half term: lár téarma
half time: leath ama
half way: leath bealaigh

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Cilwen = n. a half smile

Coegddall = a. half blind

Crachfeddw = a. half drunk

Dargredu = v. to half credit

Glasresaw = n. half welcome

Goblyg = n. a half double

Gofrwysg = n. half drunk

Gohil = n. that is but half produce; a degenerate breed

Gosgelu = v. to half conceal

Gosyn = a. half amazed

Gosynio = v. to half consider

Gowenu = v. to half smile

Gowrthodi = v. to half reject

Goysu = v. to half consume

Hanner = n. a moiety, a. half

Hanneru = v. to half

Heulor = n. a half door

Lled = n. breadth, or width, a. broad, wide; broader, ad. in the mean, in part, half, partly, almost

Lledbwyll = n. a half reason

Lledchwelan = n. that is half open, or divided

Lledfarw = a. partly, or half dead

Lledoer = a. half cold, lukewarm

Syrn = adv. partly, rather, half

Half, (n.)

One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.
  

absolutely useless

one's wife or husband; one's spouse or partner

(ironic) not very cheap

to fart

just a moment

wanker

to pinch, to steal

congratulation to smb. in an envious way

fifty dollars; $50

1. not completed: “half-baked scheme”; 2. lacking mature judgment or experience: “half-baked theorists”

(obsolete) half a crown

intoxicated

half drunk

dumb

1. not really; not at all: “His first poems were not half bad”; 2. certainly! indeed!

absolutely useless

What do you think of that woman?

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Noun
1. one of two equal parts of a divisible whole; "half a loaf"; "half an hour"; "a century and one half"
(synonym) one-half
(hypernym) common fraction, simple fraction
(hyponym) fifty percent
2. in various games or performances: either of two periods of play separated by an interval
(hypernym) playing period, period of play, play
(hyponym) first half
(part-holonym) football, football game

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Adjective
1. consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity; "a half chicken"; "lasted a half hour"
(synonym) half(a)
(similar) fractional
2. partial; "gave me a half smile"; "he did only a half job"
(synonym) half(a)
(similar) incomplete, uncomplete
3. (of siblings) related through one parent only; "a half brother"; "half sister"
(antonym) whole

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Adverb
1. partially or to the extent of a half; "he was half hidden by the bushes"
(pertainym) half(a)

Half-Life, 1st person shooter.

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Used in match play when score is tied on a hole. Each side credited with a half.

the closest pitch above or below any given pitch

Half a mile, four furlongs; 880 yards; 2,640 feet.

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