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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Half \Half\ (h[aum]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. h[=a]lfr, 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. --Tennyson.
{Half ape} (Zo["o]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.
{Half-breadth plan} (Shipbuilding), a horizontal plan of the
half a vessel, divided lengthwise, showing the lines.
{Half cadence} (Mus.), a cadence on the dominant.
{Half cap}, a slight salute with the cap. [Obs.] --Shak.
{A half cock}, the position of the cock of a gun when
retained by the first notch.
Half \Half\, v. t.
To halve. [Obs.] See {Halve}. --Sir H. Wotton.
Half \Half\, 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. ``Half loth and
half consenting.'' --Dryden.
Their children spoke halfin the speech of Ashdod.
--Neh. xiii.
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Half \Half\, n.; pl. {Halves}. [AS. healf. See {Half}, a.]
1. Part; side; behalf. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
The four halves of the house. --Chaucer.
2. 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.
Not half his riches known, and yet despised.
--Milton.
A friendship so complete Portioned in halves between
us. --Tennyson.
{Better half}. See under {Better}.
{In half}, in two; an expression sometimes used improperly
instead of in or into halves; as, to cut in half.
[Colloq.] --Dickens.
{In, or On}, {one's half}, in one's behalf; on one's part.
[Obs.]
{To cry halves}, to claim an equal share with another.
{To go halves}, to share equally between two.
资料来源 : WordNet®
half
adj 1: consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or
quantity; "a half chicken"; "lasted a half hour" [syn:
{half(a)}]
2: partial; "gave me a half smile"; "he did only a half job"
[syn: {half(a)}]
3: (of siblings) related through one parent only; "a half
brother"; "half sister" [ant: {whole}]
[also: {halves} (pl)]
half
n 1: one of two equal parts of a divisible whole; "half a loaf";
"half an hour"; "a century and one half" [syn: {one-half}]
2: in various games or performances: either of two periods of
play separated by an interval
[also: {halves} (pl)]
half
adv : partially or to the extent of a half; "he was half hidden by
the bushes"
[also: {halves} (pl)]