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HALF MEASURE

Definition: HALF MEASURE

HALF MEASURE

1. An imperfect or weak line of action.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: HALF MEASURE

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

Mid-course

Neutrality; half measure, half and half measures; compromise.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: HALF MEASURE

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

half measure ton

10

bay c half measure moon

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: HALF MEASURE

Language Translations for "HALF MEASURE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

masë gjysmake. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تدبير موقت. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

полумярка, палиатив (palliative). (various references)

   

French

  

demi-mesure. (various references)

   

German

  

halbheit. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

פשר" (compromise). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

félmegoldás (shift). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lieh-howse. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alfhay easuremay

   

Russian 

  

полумера (empirical measures, half way remedies, palliative). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

polumera, pola mere. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

halvmesyr, halvhet (half-heartedness). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yetersiz önlem, yarım yamalak tedbir, uzlaşma (accommodation, accord, agreement, combine, compromise, give and take, half-way house, mediatory, rapprochement, reconciliation, reunification, reunion, settlement, understanding), karşılıklı ödün verme. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

biện pháp ho giải biện pháp nửa vời. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HALF MEASURE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-f-h-l-m-r-s-u"

-3 letters: fumarase, humerals, shameful.

-4 letters: alarums, armfuls, armsful, earfuls, easeful, females, ferulae, ferulas, ferules, flamers, flasher, flesher, flusher, fuelers, fulhams, fulmars, hamauls, hamular, hareems, harmful, haulers, healers, heaumes, herself, humeral, lemures, marshal, maulers, measure, refuels, refusal, relumes, serumal.

-5 letters: aflame, afresh, alarms, alarum, almahs, almehs, ameers, amuser, armful, asarum, ashlar, ashler, ashram, earful, falser.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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