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Half   /hæf/   Listen
Half

adjective
1.
Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity.  "Lasted a half hour"
2.
Partial.  "He did only a half job"
3.
(of siblings) related through one parent only.  "Half sister"
noun
(pl. halves)
1.
One of two equal parts of a divisible whole.  Synonym: one-half.  "Half an hour" , "A century and one half"
2.
One of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval.
adverb
1.
Partially or to the extent of a half.



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"Half" Quotes from Famous Books



... some more wonderful poetry. He has spent more than half his life working for the cause of Ireland. He was the father and patriarch of the last rising. One of his sons ...
— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... "Well, at least half an hour, if I am not interrupted; but as my clerk is out, I may have to stop to wait on a customer. Perhaps if you have other shopping to do you might call for them on your way home." If there was a twinkle in the eye of the Spectacle Man, ...
— The Spectacle Man - A Story of the Missing Bridge • Mary F. Leonard
... Mrs. Dalloway lay half-raised on a pillow, and did not open her eyes. Then she murmured, "Oh, Dick, is ...
— The Voyage Out • Virginia Woolf
... their mental traits, but that, with so little research and inquiry, we should know anything at all. They have only been regarded as the geologist regards boulders, being not only out of place, but with not half the sure guides and principles of determining where they came from, and where the undisturbed original strata remain. The wonder is not that, as boulder-tribes, they have not adopted our industry and Christianity, ...
— The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians • Henry R. Schoolcraft
... the fly, and wandered down towards the old gabled court, nestling amid huge walnuts in its southward glen; while before us spread a panorama, half sea, half land, than which, perhaps, our ...
— Prose Idylls • Charles Kingsley


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