HALFWAY HOUSE

  

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HALFWAY HOUSE

Definition: HALFWAY HOUSE

HALFWAY HOUSE

1. An inn or place of call midway on a journey.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Synonyms within Context: HALFWAY HOUSE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Interposition

Halfway house.

Middle

Noun: middle, midst, mediety, mean; medium, middle term; center; mid-course; mezzo termine; juste milieu; halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos; nucleus, nucleolus.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Specialty Definition: Halfway House, Pennsylvania

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Halfway House is a town located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 1,823.

Geography


Halfway House is located at 40°16'28" North, 75°38'21" West (40.274479, -75.639118)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.2 km² (2.0 mi²). 5.2 km² (2.0 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 1,823 people, 637 households, and 503 families residing in the town. The population density is 351.9/km² (913.2/mi²). There are 662 housing units at an average density of 127.8/km² (331.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 94.24% White, 3.18% African American, 0.16% Native American, 1.37% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.44% from other races, and 0.60% from two or more races. 1.15% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 637 households out of which 38.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 69.5% are married couples living together, 6.4% have a female householder with no husband present, and 20.9% are non-families. 15.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 6.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.86 and the average family size is 3.24. In the town the population is spread out with 28.3% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 31.3% from 25 to 44, 22.7% from 45 to 64, and 11.3% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 95.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 91.8 males. The median income for a household in the town is $56,369, and the median income for a family is $66,875. Males have a median income of $45,172 versus $31,402 for females. The per capita income for the town is $24,023. 1.1% of the population and 1.1% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 1.4% are under the age of 18 and 0.0% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Halfway House, Pennsylvania."

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Crosswords: HALFWAY HOUSE

Specialty definitions using "HALFWAY HOUSE": Group quarters ♦ middle ground. (references)

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Modern Usage: HALFWAY HOUSE

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Halfway House (1944)

Taggart: Halfway House (2002)

Halfway House (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: HALFWAY HOUSE

DomainTitle

Books

  • A Bird in the Hand and a Bear in the Bush: Halfway House for Wildlife (reference)

  • Behavioral Procedures for a Psychiatric Unit and Halfway House (reference)

  • Bureau of Prisons halfway house contracts : hearing before the Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, first session, June 4, 1991 (reference)

  • Halfway House (reference)

  • Halfway House Movement: A Search for Sanity (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: HALFWAY HOUSE

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Riparian area next to Halfway House Stage Station near Moab, Utah.Credit: Jerry Sintz.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: HALFWAY HOUSE

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Uruguay

Juvenile offenders who pose less of a threat to society are placed in halfway house facilities, oriented toward rehabilitation, in which a group of offenders lives together with adult counselors. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Cities: HALFWAY HOUSE


1. Halfway House, PA (CDP, FIPS 32024)
Location: 40.28186 N, 75.64365 W
Population (1990): 1415 (531 housing units)
Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HALFWAY HOUSE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

halfway house

145

halfway house stray

13

halfway house texas

9

federal halfway house

7

florida halfway house

6

halfway house minnesota

5

christian halfway house

5

halfway house houston

4

halfway house program

4

halfway house ohio

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: HALFWAY HOUSE

Language Translations for "HALFWAY HOUSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

kompromis (compromise, give and take, trade off). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ハーバード大学 (50% beam splitter, half, half coat, half made, half mirror, half size camera, half swing, half tone, half volley, halfback, halftime, harem, harem pants, harmonica, harmonize, harmony, harp, harpoon, harpsichord, harpy, Harvard University, herb, herb tea, hierarchy, high, high octane gasoline, high quality, high-class, high-end, high-grade, highjack, high-key, high-key tone, high-octane, high-sulfur, highway, highway patrol, hijack, hike, hiker, hiking, hurler derby, hyena, jai-alai, mouth organ, someone of mixed Japanese-foreign race, stylish fellow, three-quarter, top coat, westernized), 更"施設 (rehabilitation facilities). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ハーフウェーハウス , "うせいしせつ (rehabilitation facilities, welfare facilities). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alfwayhay ousehay.(various references)

   

Russian 

  

санаторий (health farm, sanatoria, sanatorium, sanitaria, sanitarium, sanitoria, sanitorium). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: HALFWAY HOUSE

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Felis domestica, Rattus rattus, RM:ratto nero. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: HALFWAY HOUSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-f-h-h-l-o-s-u-w-y"

-4 letters: housefly.

-5 letters: halfway, seafowl, swayful.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HALFWAY HOUSE


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 41 4C 46 57 41 59      48 4F 55 53 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01000001 01001100 01000110 01010111 01000001 01011001 00100000 01001000 01001111 01010101 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#65 &#76 &#70 &#87 &#65 &#89 &#32 &#72 &#79 &#85 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0041 004C 0046 0057 0041 0059      0048 004F 0055 0053 0045

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4235464057355924249555339

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial 		5. Images: Photo Album
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Cities
8. Expressions: Internet 		9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography 		13. Bibliography


  

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