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HALF-READ

Definition: HALF-READ

HALF-READ

Adjective

1. Informed by insufficient reading; superficial; shallow.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Usage Frequency: HALF-READ

"HALF-READ" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "HALF-READ" is used about 4 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
Lexical Verb (base form)50%2245,945
Adjective (general or positive)50%2245,945
                    Total100.00%4N/A

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

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Modern Translations: HALF-READ

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

Japanese Kanji 

  

読み止す (to leave half-read or unfinished). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

よみさす (to leave half-read or unfinished). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

alf-readhay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HALF-READ

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: afeard, fardel, flared, herald.

-3 letters: aahed, ahead, alder, areal, fader, farad, fared, farle, feral, flare, hadal, haled, haler, hared, heard, lader, lahar.

-4 letters: afar, alae, alar, alef, alfa, area, dahl, dale, dare, deaf, deal, dear, delf, dhal, earl, fade, fard, fare, farl, feal, fear, flea, fled, frae, haaf, haar, hade, haed, hale, half, hard, hare, harl, head, heal, hear, held, herd, herl, lade, lard, lead, leaf, lear, lehr, rale, read, real, rhea.

-5 letters: aah, aal, aha, ala, ale, are, arf, dah, dal, del, ear, edh, eld, elf, era, fad, far, fed, feh, fer, had, hae, her, lad, lar, lea, led, rad, rah, red, ref.

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

+2 letters: fatherland.

 

+3 letters: fatherlands, halfhearted.

 

+5 letters: grandfatherly, halfheartedly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HALF-READ


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

48 41 4C 46 2D 52 45 41 44

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

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

01001000 01000001 01001100 01000110 00101101 01010010 01000101 01000001 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#65 &#76 &#70 &#45 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0041 004C 0046 002D 0052 0045 0041 0044

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

423546401552393538

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INDEX

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


  

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