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HALF-DONE

Date "HALF-DONE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1818. (references)


Crosswords: HALF-DONE

Specialty definitions using "HALF-DONE": Half-done. (references)

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

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Specialty Definition: HALF-DONE

DomainDefinition

Literature

Half-done Half-done, as Elgin was burnt. In the wars between James II. of Scotland and the Douglases in 1452, the Earl of Huntly burnt one-half of the town of Elgin, being the side which belonged to the Douglases, but left the other side standing because it belonged to his own family. (Sir Walter Scott: Tales of a Grandfather, xxi.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Usage Frequency: HALF-DONE

"HALF-DONE" is generally used as a verb "do" (past participle) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HALF-DONE" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Verb "Do" (past participle)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: HALF-DONE

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

Albanian

  

i pambaruar (half-baked, incondite, unclosed, unfinished). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

свършен на половина, недоварен (raw, sodden, underdone), недопечен (doughy, half-baked, rare, raw, samel, slack-baked, sodden, underdone), полусуров (half cooked, half-baked). (various references)

   

Czech

  

napùl hotový. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

félig elvégzett. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

半煮え (half-boiled), 半熟 (half-cooked, soft-boiled), 半焼け (half-baked, half-burnt, rare). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

は"にえ (half-boiled), は"やけ (half-baked, half-burnt, rare), は"じゅく (half-cooked, soft-boiled). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alf-donehay

   

Russian 

  

сделанный наполовину, недоваренный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

polusirov, nedovršen (sketchy, unaccomplished). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

nửa chín, l m dở nửa sống, l m được một nửa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HALF-DONE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-f-h-l-n-o"

-2 letters: enfold, enhalo, foaled, fondle, haloed, handle, holden, hondle, loafed, loaned.

-3 letters: ahold, alone, anode, anole, dhole, eland, felon, foehn, haled, haole, holed, honda, honed, laden, loden, naled, nodal, olden.

-4 letters: aeon, alef, aloe, dahl, dale, deaf, deal, dean, delf, dhal, dole, dona, done, elan, enol, fade, fado, fane, fano, feal, fend, feod, flan.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-f-h-l-n-o"
 

+3 letters: offhandedly.

 

+4 letters: forehandedly.

 

+5 letters: foolhardiness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HALF-DONE


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

48 41 4C 46 2D 44 4F 4E 45

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

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

01001000 01000001 01001100 01000110 00101101 01000100 01001111 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#65 &#76 &#70 &#45 &#68 &#79 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0041 004C 0046 002D 0044 004F 004E 0045

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

423546401538494839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage Frequency
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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