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Definition: Half |
HalfAdjective1. Consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity; "a half chicken"; "lasted a half hour". 2. Partial; "gave me a half smile"; "he did only a half job". 3. (of siblings) related through one parent only; "a half brother"; "half sister". Adverb1. Partially or to the extent of a half; "he was half hidden by the bushes". Noun1. One of two equal parts of a divisible whole; "half a loaf" or "half an hour" or "a century and one half". 2. In various games or performances: either of two periods of play separated by an interval. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "half" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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Satire | HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Food & Agriculture | One of the lateral halves of the carcase of an animal. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Half Half is more than the whole.. (??????????????????)This is what Hesiod said to his brother Perseus, when he wished him to settle a dispute without going to law. He meant "half of the estate without the expense of law will be better than the whole after the lawyers have had their pickings." The remark, however, has a very wide signification. Thus an embarras de richesse is far less profitable than a sufficiency. A large estate to one who cannot manage it is impoverishing. A man of small income will be poorer with a large house and garden to keep up than if he lived in a smaller tenement. Increase of wealth, if expenditure is more in proportion, tendeth to poverty. "Unhappy they to whom God has not revealed, By a strong light which must their sense control, That half a great estate's more than the whole." Cowley: Essays in Verse and Prose, No. iv. Half My better half. (See Better .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Sports & Leisure | At the end of each half he shall check and approve the score. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| HAD | English | Half amplitude duration | Post & Telecom |
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Synonyms: HalfSynonyms: half(a) (adj), one-half (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: whole (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
bisection | Bifurcation, forking, branching, ramification, divarication; fork, prong; fold. half, moiety. |
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Crosswords: Half |
| English words defined with "half": At half cock ♦ Better half ♦ Half an eye, half crown, half dollar, half door, half gainer, Half heck, half life, half mile, half note, half page, Half pay, Half price, Half seas over, Half time, half track ♦ In half ♦ To meet half way. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "half": bearing half, bottom half ♦ Cut in half ♦ dough placed in the upper half ♦ effective half life ♦ First Stroke is Half the Battle ♦ HALF A HOG, half bearing, half blinded, half change value, half headers, HALF SEAS OVER, half width ♦ King's Cheese goes half in Paring ♦ outgoing half echo control device request indicator ♦ Well Begun is Half Done. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "half": Squireen. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Half" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (half), German (assisted, helped), Serbo-Croatian (halfback). |
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Screenplays | Lewis, however much coffee you drink in the morning, I want you to reduce it by half. (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin.) She and the infant had been buried less than half a year; I would have been happy to join them (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Not half as bad as you figure it'll be before it's happened (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; writing credit: B. Traven; John Huston) I am glad you are late. This chicken took longer than I expected Hope it isn't done too much Of course, it caught on fire once I think it is better that I cut it out here, unless you want half of one for yourself (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht) Why can't things just go back to normal at the end of the half hour, like on the Brady Bunch (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.) | |
Lyrics | In half the time it takes to blink (Girls of Summer; performing artist: Aerosmith) Ooh there's not much time to tell you half the things I should (Sweet Dreams; performing artist: Air Supply) I've spent half a lifetime (It's No Crime; performing artist: Babyface; writing credit: Babyface, L.A. Reid, Daryl Simmons) Yesterday wasn't half as tough as this time (Too Little Too Late; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies) If you just give it half a chance (It's Still Rock and Roll To Me; performing artist: Billy Joel) | |
Clever | The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. (references; author: Mark Twain) May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you're dead. (references; author: Irish Proverb) Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half (references; author: unknown) Half of a large intestine: 1 semicolon. (references; author: unknown) Remember, half the people you know are below average. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974) Half the George Kirby Comedy Hour (1972) Cheap at Half the Price (1972) Time and a Half (1972) | |
Song Titles | Eric the Half A Bee Song (performing artist: Monty Python) | |
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A typed manuscript lies open on a purple tablecloth. Various types of grain, either loose or in a bowl and a ladle, are on top. There is also a basket with a round loaf of brown bread cut in half. See also AV-3906. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. | (2) color slides show different quantities of cantaloupe melons. (1) whole melon next to a cantaloupe sliced in half, (1) wedge of cantaloupe melon. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). | ||
P. malariae, a quartan malaria, produces febrile paroxysms on a 72 hour cycle. Relapses can sometimes occur half a century after being infected. Credit: CDC. | ![]() | Color version of the left half of the Venera 13 image. Credit: NASA. | |
![]() | The West Fjords are a series of peninsulas in northwestern Iceland. They represent less than one-eighth the country's land area, but their jagged perimeter accounts for more than half of Iceland's total coastline. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Stormy seas on the east coast Pier has been broken in half. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Southern half of Golden Gate Bridge. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | "The Crater of Erebus, 900 Feet Deep and Half a Mile Wide." In: "The Heart of the Antarctic", Volume I, by E. H. Shackleton, 1909. P.184. Library Call Number G149 S52. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
![]() | Crepuscular rays illuminate half the sky - Antarctic sunset. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | 1. Malaclemmys macrospilota. In: "A Revision of Malaclemmys, a Genus of Turtles", by William Perry Hay. P. 20, Plate XI (upper half). Credit: Fisheries. |
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| "Bottom half of a pigeon" by William Gillaspy Commentary: "Stairy night." | "Half Dome" by Cellulaer Dweller Commentary: "Picture of Half Dome in Yosemite National Forest California." |
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| A single paper bill being torn in half. | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aristotle | Well begun is half done. |
Author Unknown | Be twice as much in half the time. |
Benjamin Franklin | Half the truth is often a great lie. |
| Half wits talk much, but say little. | |
Confucius | To save face keep lower half closed. |
Hesiod | The half is greater than the whole. |
Horace | The half of my own soul. |
Lord Alfred Tennyson | Either sex alone is half itself. |
Plato | A well begun is half ended. |
Thomas Fuller | A man surprised is half beaten. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And five years product is not worth the perpetual inheritance of land, where all is possessed, and none remains waste, to be taken up by him that is disseized: which will be easily granted, if one do but take away the imaginary value of money, the disproportion being more than between five and five hundred; though, at the same time, half a year's product is more worth than the inheritance, where there being more land than the inhabitants possess and make use of, any one has liberty to make use of the waste: but there conquerors take little care to possess themselves of the lands of the vanquished, No damage therefore, that men in the state of nature (as all princes and governments are in reference to one another) suffer from one another, can give a conqueror power to dispossess the posterity of the vanquished, and turn them out of that inheritance, which ought to be the possession of them and their descendants to all generations. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In this way arose Feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon; half echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart's core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The voting is void unless the total number of votes cast is equal to half the number of the Delegates attending the Conference. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | Because you see the 46 millions in our island harassed about their food supply, of which they only grow one half, even in war-time, or because we have difficulty in restarting our industries and export trade after six years of passionate war effort, do not suppose that we shall not come through these dark years of privation as we have come through the glorious years of agony, or that half a century from now, you will not see 70 or 80 millions of Britons spread about the world and united in defense of our traditions, our way of life, and of the world causes which you and we espouse. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | American courts have since labored with the doctrine for over half a century. (reference) |
John F. Kennedy | 1961 | To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required--not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | I have more than half an expectation of our all going abroad |
Valley of the Shadow of Death | Carroll, Lewis | My son, it minds me of a day Left half a life behind, That I have prayed to put away For ever from my mind |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | He was full eighteen minutes and a half behind his time |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | There really wasâ®t a lot this machine could do that you couldâ®t do yourself in half the time with a lot less trouble, said Richard, "but it was, on the other hand, very good at being a slow and dim-witted pupil. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In half a minute we will have the poor man out. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The refectory was half empty and the fellows were still passing out in file |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Cent and a half a pound |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | However, I was terribly shaken and discomposed in this journey, though it were but of half an hour |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | This man seemed to me to lean over the cornice, and timidly whisper his half truth to the rude occupants who really knew it better than he. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | It affects half of all Americans diagnosed with diabetes. (references) | |
A decibel level of 30 is half as loud as a normal conversation. (references) | ||
Within 2 weeks about half the children came down with chickenpox. (references) | ||
Business | Only half a dozen are wholesalers. (references) | |
Half of its members are private firms. (references) | ||
SOE sales were down 5.3% in the first half. (references) | ||
Children | Brazil | In September 2000, UNICEF reported that nearly 100,000 children die each year before their first birthday, almost half during the perinatal period. (references) |
Ecuador | The Constitution provides that 30 percent of the public budget must be devoted to education; however, in practice only half of that amount is spent. (references) | |
Liberia | At the end of 2000, 741,816 out of an estimated 1.5 million school age children were enrolled in primary and secondary schools, less than half of whom were girls. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Belgium | The number of asylum applications dropped significantly during the first half of the year. (references) |
Netherlands | The Justice Ministry estimated that half of all asylum seekers came to the country via alien smuggling organizations. (references) | |
Guinea | Refugees account for half or more of the populations of the forest region cities of N'Zerekore, Kissidougou, and Macenta. (references) | |
Economic History | Poland | Flag: Upper half white; lower red. (references) |
Namibia | The Ovambo make up about half of Namibia's people. (references) | |
Jamaica | The sector employs half the number it did in 1994. (references) | |
Human Rights | Ecuador | One half of all incarcerated persons have not been tried and sentenced. (references) |
Brazil | In more than half the calls received, the caller hung up or remained silent. (references) | |
Macedonia | In nearby Brest, police destroyed half of the homes in the village and two schools. (references) | |
Indigenous People | New Zealand | Maori inmates constitute more than half the prison population. (references) |
Thailand | Members of hilltribes without proper documentation, who account for approximately half the estimated 700,000 to 880,000 such persons, still face restrictions on their movement, may not own land, and are not protected by labor laws, including minimum wage requirements. (references) | |
Mexico | On April 28, the Lower House approved the revised version of the bill by a vote of 386 to 60. The constitutional reforms were then approved by the State legislatures in 17 of the country's 31 states, thus meeting the requirement that constitutional reforms be approved by at least half of the states. (references) | |
Minorities | Israel and the occupied territories | Critics also pointed out that only half of the total sum represented newly allocated money. (references) |
Cameroon | Of Christians, approximately half are Catholics, and approximately half are affiliated with Protestant denominations. (references) | |
Congo | The largest ethnic group is the Kongo, who constitute the main ethnic/linguistic group in the southern part of the country and approximately half the country's population. (references) | |
Political Economy | Ukraine | The other half are elected proportionally from political party lists. (references) |
Fiji | Sugar and tourism account for more than half of foreign exchange earnings. (references) | |
Georgia | Per capita GDP for the first half of the year was approximately $324 (666 GEL). (references) | |
Political Rights | Venezuela | His supporters also won half the governorships. (references) |
Yemen | Voter registration of women is less than half that of men. (references) | |
Kazakhstan | Of the more than 600 other candidates, approximately half ran as independents. (references) | |
Trade | Kuwait | Products must arrive at destination within half the shelf-life duration. (references) |
Egypt | The tax rebate system currently covers more than half of the major exported commodities. (references) | |
New Zealand | Local interest rates for corporate financing ranged from 6 - 7% in the latter half of 2000. (references) | |
Travel | Pakistan | In 1997, Pakistan reverted to weekly holiday on Sunday, with half working day on Fridays. (references) |
Saudi Arabia | The normal work-week runs from Saturday through Wednesday, with many companies also requiring a half or full day on Thursday. (references) | |
Yemen | Aden, Hodeidah and Mukalla experience temperatures above 100 degrees Fahrenheit for half of the year, usually accompanied by high humidity. (references) | |
Women | Madagascar | Widows with children inherit half of joint marital property. (references) |
Egypt | Among those who have been beaten, less than half have ever sought help. (references) | |
Botswana | Half the murders of women were linked to histories of domestic violence. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Cambodia | Children under the age of 15 account for more than half the population. (references) |
Brazil | Slightly over half of child workers are found in rural areas, and two-thirds are boys. (references) | |
China | In other sectors, less than half of rural enterprises meet national dust and poison standards. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TENACITY, n. A certain quality of the human hand in its relation to the coin of the realm. It attains its highest development in the hand of authority and is considered a serviceable equipment for a career in politics. The following illustrative lines were written of a Californian gentleman in high political preferment, who has passed to his accounting: Of such tenacity his grip That nothing from his hand can slip. Well-buttered eels you may o'erwhelm In tubs of liquid slippery-elm In vain -- from his detaining pinch They cannot struggle half an inch! 'Tis lucky that he so is planned That breath he draws not with his hand, For if he did, so great his greed He'd draw his last with eager speed. Nay, that were well, you say. Not so He'd draw but never let it go! |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | Look, trying to separate the Middle East equitably is like trying to cut a water balloon in half with the back of a comb. |
Dominick Dunne | In Monaco, in a penthouse in Monte Carlo over the bank that Mr. Safra had owned and had just sold just before his death. And it's a fascinating case. The American nurse has now been in the Monaco prison for about two and a half years. |
Lowell Bergman | Well, we initially did a documentary two and a half years ago after the Nairobi bombing. And that looked for, in a sense, the reasons behind it. |
Paul McCartney | Half an hour, something like that. If you're really lucky, they just arrive and you kind of just write them down. |
Rudolph Giuliani | I shot that from a boat, and that was used by Amtrak as an ad for about a year and a half on the Metroliner. |
Rush Limbaugh | Those of us who thought that Clinton's legacy would be corruption and sleaze were only half right. |
Trisha Meili | My first memory was about five and a half weeks later. So I don't remember any of that, you know, nasty time, really, in the hospital, either. |
William Shatner | That's all it is. It's Dinner at Andre's. It's conversation on the most intimate subjects by two people who have known each other half their life. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | There has also been a small beginning in the coinage of half dimes, the want of small coins in circulation calling the first attention to them. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | More than half the people of the world are living in conditions approaching misery. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Yet nearly half lack either the funds or the facilities to attend college. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | I shall leave this office with regret at not completing my term but with gratitude for the privilege of serving as your President for the past five and a half years. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | A man who has devoted more than half of his life to serving his country. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | But for a half Century now, the American people have shouldered the burden and paid taxes that were higher than they would have been to support a defense that was bigger than it would have been if imperial communism had never existed. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | In the past six years, we have cut the welfare rolls nearly in half. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Small businesses create the majority of new jobs in America, and they account for half the output of the economy. |
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| "Half" is generally used as a determiner (general) -- approximately 74.65% of the time. "Half" is used about 29,750 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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Determiner (general) | 74.65% | 22,208 | 397 |
| Noun (common) | 21.06% | 6,264 | 1,552 |
| Adverb (general) | 4.23% | 1,259 | 6,228 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.06% | 17 | 85,106 |
| Total | 100.00% | 29,750 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "half" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Half | Last name | 170 | 51,486 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "half". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Bekah | N/A | Biblical | Half a shekel |
| Halvdan | Male | Scandinavian | A half |
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| Country | Name |
| USA | Robert Half International Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "half": 1 half peak divergence ♦ 1 half peak spread ♦ a half ♦ A half cock ♦ about half ♦ at half cock ♦ at half mast ♦ at half price ♦ axis in the lower half ♦ axis in the upper half ♦ be half asleep ♦ be only half listening ♦ bearing half ♦ better half ♦ bottom half ♦ brother of the half blood ♦ by half ♦ center half ♦ centre half ♦ crankcase lower half ♦ cut in half ♦ dough placed in the upper half ♦ effective half life ♦ first half ♦ for half a day ♦ go half and half ♦ good half ♦ half a cup ♦ half a day ♦ half a dozen ♦ half a kilo ♦ half a kilogram ♦ half a litre ♦ half a loaf is better than no bread ♦ half a mile ♦ half a minute ♦ half a mo! ♦ half a moment! ♦ half a pound ♦ half a sphere ♦ half adder ♦ Half an eye ♦ half an hour ♦ half and half ♦ half and half measures ♦ Half ape ♦ half as much again ♦ half asleep ♦ Half back ♦ half bearing ♦ Half bent ♦ half binding ♦ half blood ♦ half board ♦ Half boarder ♦ half boot ♦ half breed ♦ half brother ♦ Half cadence ♦ Half cap ♦ half carcase ♦ half cardigan rib ♦ half caste ♦ half change value ♦ half cocked ♦ half cooked ♦ half cross stitch ♦ half crown ♦ half curlew ♦ half dead with fright ♦ half dollar ♦ half door ♦ half dozen ♦ half drink ♦ half duplex ♦ half eagle ♦ half empty ♦ half face ♦ half fare ♦ half full ♦ half gainer ♦ half hatchet ♦ half hearted ♦ Half heck ♦ half hitch ♦ half holiday ♦ Half hose ♦ half hourly ♦ half ils glide path sector ♦ half left turn! ♦ half life ♦ half listening ♦ half mask ♦ Half measure ♦ half measures ♦ half mile ♦ Half Moon ♦ Half Moon Bay ♦ half mourning ♦ half naked ♦ half nelson. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "half": half-a-billion, half-a-billion-dollar, half-a-bitter, half-a-brick, half-abstracted, half-acceptance, half-accepted, half-a-cent, half-a-century, half-a-century old, half-achieved, half-a-circuit, half-acknowledged, half-acre, half-a-crown, half-actorish, half-a-cup, half-a-day, half-adder, half-admired, half-admission, half-adozen, half-a-dozen, half-a-dozen-of-the-other, half-adult, half-afraid, half-african, half-aggressively, half-agonised, half-agricultural, half-a-hundred, half-alcoholic, half-alert, half-a-litre of milk, half-alive, half-a-loaf, half-alternate, Half-a-man, half-american, half-a-metre, half-a-mile, half-a-million, half-a-minute, half-amused, half-analytical, half-and-half, half-and-half dressing, half-and-halfs, Half-an-elephant, half-angel, half-anglicized, half-angry, half-anhour, half-an-hour, half-animal, half-an-inch, half-anniversary, half-annoyed, half-answered, half-anticipation, half-a-persons, half-apes, half-a-pint, half-apologetically, half-apologising, half-a-poster, half-a-pound, half-apprehended, half-apprehensive, half-arab, half-arabic, half-arched, half-a-repeat, half-armed, half-armour, half-aroused, half-arranged, half-arsed, half-articulated, half-a-score, half-ascriptions, half-a-second, half-ashamed, half-a-sixpence, half-askew, half-asleep, half-asphyxiated, half-assuaged, half-astonished, half-a-thumb's-length, half-a-ton, half-attending, half-attentive, half-attracted, half-aunt, half-aunts, half-awake, half-aware, half-a-winter, half-a-world, half-back, half-backs, half-baked, half-bald, half-ball, half-bar, half-bared, half-barrels, half-barrier, half-bars, half-bastions, Half-bats, half-b-b-bottle, half-beard, half-beast, half-beasts, half-believe, half-believed, half-believer, half-believing, half-belonged, half-belt, half-belted, half-bent, half-best, half-billion, half-bird, half-bitten, half-blind, half-blinded, half-blocked, half-blood, half-blooded, half-blown, half-blue, half-board, half-bodies, half-boiled, half-bolting, half-bond, Half-boot, half-boots, half-bordered, half-born, half-boss, half-bottle, half-bottles, half-bound, half-bow, half-bowing, half-boy, half-boys, Half-breadth plan, half-break, half-breast, half-bred, half-breds, half-breed, half-breedfishermen, half-breeds, half-brick, half-bricks, half-bridge, half-brogue, half-broken, half-brookside, half-brother, Half-brother-in-law, half-brothers, half-brothers and half-sisters, half-bucket, half-building, half-built, half-bull, half-buried, half-buries, half-burned, half-burnt, half-butt, half-ca, half-cab, half-cabin, half-cake, half-calf, half-canopies, half-canopy, half-canton, half-cantons, half-capacity, half-carcase, half-carried, half-carry, half-carrying, half-carved, half-cast, half-caste, half-catches, half-centuries, half-century, half-certain, half-chance, half-chances, half-channel, half-chant, half-chanted, half-charming, half-chewed, half-cheyenne, half-child, half-chinese, half-choked, half-choking, half-circle, half-circles, half-circular, half-civilian, half-civilization, half-clad, Half-clammed, half-classes, half-clenched, half-cloak, half-close, half-closed, half-closing, half-cloth, half-clothed, half-clotted, half-clown, half-cock, half-cocked, half-collapsed, half-collars, half-colonels, half-columns, half-combed, half-committed, half-complement, half-complete, half-completed, half-complete-skeleton, half-concealed, half-concealing, Half-concorde, half-concussed, half-confirmations, half-conscious, half-consciously, half-constructed, half-consumed, half-controlled, half-converted, half-convinced, half-cooked, half-course, half-course sector, half-courses, half-cousin, half-cousins, half-covered, half-covering, Half-cracked, half-cranked, half-crawled, half-crawling, half-crazed, half-crazy, half-cream, half-creatures, half-credit, half-crescent, half-cretan, half-critically, half-crouch, half-crouched, half-crouching, half-crown, half-crowns, half-curious, half-curled-up, half-curling, half-curtain, half-curtains, half-curtsey, half-cut, half-cycles, half-daft, half-damp, half-dance, half-dark, half-darkened, half-darkness, half-dawn, half-day, half-days, half-dazed, half-dead, half-deaf, half-decade, half-decayed, half-decent, half-decided, Half-deck, Half-decked, half-decomposed, half-defined, half-deflated, half-degree, half-deity, half-delirious, half-delivered, half-demolished, half-demon, half-denials, half-derelict, half-deserted, half-despair, half-destroyed, half-did, half-digested, half-disc, half-discharged, half-disgusted, half-dismantled, half-dismembered, half-distance, half-disturbed, half-dived, half-divine, half-diving, half-dog, half-doll, half-dollar, half-dolphin, Half-dome, half-domes, half-done, half-door, half-doors, half-dosed, half-doses, half-down, half-dozen, half-dozens, half-dozing, half-drafted, half-drag, half-dragged, half-dragging, half-drawn, half-dreaded, half-dreading, half-dream, half-dreamily, half-dreaming, half-dreamy, half-dressed, half-dried, half-drowned, half-drowsing, half-drugged, half-drunk, half-drunken, half-dry, half-dug, half-dummies, half-duplex, half-eagle, half-eaten, half-educated, half-egyptian, half-eight, half-elated, half-eleven, half-ellipse, half-elliptic, half-elliptic spring, half-embrace, half-emptied, half-empty, half-encircling, half-engaged, half-english, half-enmeshed, half-enough, half-envied, half-equations, half-erased, half-erect, half-eroded, half-escaped, half-eskimo, half-esters, half-exasperated, half-excepted, half-exception, half-exhilaration, half-existing, half-expect, half-expectation, half-expected, half-expecting, half-experienced, half-explained, half-exposed, half-extended, half-face, Half-faced, half-facelift, half-facet, half-fact, half-fainting, half-falling, half-familiar, half-fantasy, half-fat, half-feared, half-fearful, half-feathered, half-fed, half-fell, half-fictional, half-field, half-fields, half-figures, half-fill, half-filled, half-filling, half-finished, half-firkin, Half-fish, half-fish-half-insect, half-fish-half-insect-looking, half-fit, half-five, half-flag, half-flirtatious, half-flooded, half-flowers, half-fluttered, half-focused, half-focusing, half-folded, half-foot, half-forgetting, half-forgotten, half-forgot-ten, half-formed, half-forming, half-formulated, half-forward, half-four, half-frame, half-frames, half-free, half-free morel, half-freezing, half-french, half-fret, half-frightened, half-frozen, half-frustrated, half-fulfilled, half-full, half-funded, half-furled, half-furnished, half-gallon, half-garbled, half-garrison, half-gasp, half-gate, half-gaze, half-german, half-ghetto, half-gigabyte, half-gipsy, half-glad, half-glance, half-glass, half-glassed, half-glasses, half-glazed, half-glimpsed, half-globes, half-gloom, half-glow, half-gnawed, half-goat, half-god, half-good, half-graben, half-grandfather, half-grapefruit, half-grass, half-grassy, half-gratified, half-greek, half-green, half-greens, half-grin, half-groat, half-ground, half-grown, half-guessed-at, half-guilty, half-guinea, half-guineas, half-guttersnipe-half-muezzin, half-half, half-halts, half-hand, half-hanged, half-hardies, half-hardy, Half-hatched, half-head, half-headed, half-healed, half-healing, Half-heard, Half-hearted, half-hearted attempt, half-heartedly, half-heartedness, half-hedgehog, half-heeding, half-height, half-held, half-hibernate, half-hid, half-hidden, half-hiding, half-hipped, half-hit, half-hitch, Half-hitchcock, half-hitches, half-holiday, half-holidays, half-hooded, half-hoop, half-hope, half-hoped, half-hopeful, half-hopes, half-hoping, half-hopped, half-horse, half-hose, half-hour, half-hour glass, half-hourly, half-hourly report, half-hours, half-house, half-houses, half-housing, half-hull, half-human, half-humans, half-humorous, half-humour, half-hundred, half-hundredweight, half-hungry, half-hunter, half-hypnotic, half-hysterical, half-i, half-ice, half-identify, half-idol, half-illegible, half-illicit, half-illusory, half-imagined, half-immersed, half-implies, half-improvised, half-in, half-incapacitated, half-inch, half-inched, half-inch-thick, half-inclined, half-income, half-indian, half-indignant, half-inflated, half-informed, half-in-half, half-insane, half-inspired, half-intended, half-intensity, half-intermitted, half-invariant, half-invented, half-ironically, half-ish, Half-issa, half-italian, half-jewish, half-jocularly, half-jog, half-joking, half-jokingly, half-jumped, half-karian, half-kill, half-killed, half-killing, Half-kilo, half-kilogram, Half-king, half-kislevite, half-knackered, half-kneeling, half-knew, half-knowable, half-knowing, half-knowingly, half-knowledge, half-known, half-korean, half-labels, half-lace, half-laden, half-laid, half-land, half-landing, half-lap, Half-lattice girder, half-laugh, half-laughed, half-laughing, half-leaning, Half-learned, half-learnt, half-left, half-length, half-length coat, half-length portrait, half-length sheepskin coat, half-lengths, Half-les, half-levelled, half-lid, half-lidded, half-lids, half-lie, half-lies, half-life, half-life, half-life period, half-lifesize, half-lifted, half-lifting, half-light, half-lighted, half-lights, half-line, half-lines, half-listen, half-listened, half-listening, half-lit, half-litre, half-litres, half-lives, half-living, half-load, half-loaf, half-loath, half-look, half-looking, half-lost, half-loud, half-lowered, half-lowering, half-lying, half-mad, half-made, half-maimed, half-man, half-managed, half-manned, half-marathon, half-marathons, half-marching, half-married, half-mask, half-mast, half-mast, half-mast high or half-staff, half-match, half-matches, half-match-fee, half-matrix, half-maximum, half-meaning, half-meanings, half-measure, half-measures, half-melted, half-memories, half-memory, half-men, half-methylated, half-metre, half-milano, half-mile, half-mile-high, half-mile-long, half-military, half-mill, half-millennium, half-millimetre, half-million, half-million-dollar, half-minded, half-minute, half-minute glass, half-mistrust, half-moans, half-mocking, half-molecules, half-moon, half-moon-crescent, half-moons, half-moral, half-moribund, half-mortals, half-mourning, half-mouth, half-movement, half-musty, half-mutt, half-muttered, half-mythical, half-nail, half-naked, half-negro, half-nelson, half-niece, half-nights, half-nine, half-nod, half-nodding, half-not, half-note, half-noticed, half-nude, half-numbered, half-obliterated, half-obscured, half-occupied, half-octave, half-offered, half-on, half-onto, half-open, half-opened, half-organization, half-oriental, half-original, half-orphan, half-ostlander, half-ounce, half-ounces, half-out, half-outraged, half-over, half-overheard, half-overhearing, half-owned, half-owner, half-pace, half-packed, half-page, half-paid, half-painted, half-panelled, half-panelling, half-panted, half-paralysed, half-parodic, half-pass, half-past, half-past-bleedin'-four, half-pasted-up, half-pasteight, half-past-eight, half-past-one, half-past-six, half-pattern, half-pay, half-peace, half-pear-shaped, half-peeled, Half-pence, Half-pennies, half-penny, half-pennyworth, half-perceived, half-phantom, half-phi, half-philosophical, half-pictures, half-pig, Half-pike, half-pilasters, half-pillars, half-pinhead, half-pint, half-pints, half-pissed, half-pitch, half-pitched, half-pitying, half-pivot, half-plaited, half-plate, half-played, half-pleading, half-pleasurable, half-plucked, half-poet, half-point, half-points, half-poisoned, Half-port, half-portuguese, half-post, half-pot, half-pots, half-pound, half-pounds, half-power, half-prepared, half-presentable, half-pretending, half-price, half-price ticket, half-priced, half-priest, half-priestly, half-private, half-processed, half-promise, half-promised, half-promises, half-propped, half-protest, half-proud, half-pulled, half-pulling, half-pushed, half-quartern, half-question, half-quizzical, half-raised, half-raising, half-ran, half-rape, half-rate, half-rated, half-rations, Half-ray, half-reactions, Half-read, half-reading, half-ready, half-real, half-realised, half-realises, half-realized, half-rear, half-recalled, half-reclining, half-recognisable, half-recognised, half-recognized, half-recruit, half-refuelled, half-regretted, half-released, half-reliable, half-relief, half-relieved, half-reluctant, half-remembered, half-repeat, half-replicate, half-replying, half-reproachfully, half-repulsed, half-resentful, half-resentfully, half-residence time, half-resolved, half-respectable, half-respected, half-restored, half-revealed, half-revolution, half-revolve, half-rhinu, half-rhyme, half-rhymes, half-ridden, half-right, half-rings, half-ripe, half-rise, half-risen, half-rising, half-roasted, half-robot, half-roll, half-rolled, half-rolling, Half-romany, half-roofed, half-room, half-rose, half-rosettes, half-rotted, half-rotten, half-round, Half-round hoop, half-roundels, half-row, half-rubbed, half-rubbed-out, half-ruined, half-ruinous, half-run, half-running, half-russian, half-sad, half-saint, half-saltires, half-salute, half-samoan, half-sang, half-sat, half-saw, half-scandalized, half-scared, half-scholarly, half-scottish, half-scrambling, half-screamed, half-screwed, half-seasoned, half-seas-over, half-second, half-secret, half-section, half-sections, half-seduction, half-seen, half-seen-unseen, half-self, half-sensed, half-sentence, half-sentences, half-serious, half-seriously, half-serpent, half-set, half-seven, half-severed, half-shade, half-shaded, half-shadowed, half-shadows, half-shamefaced, half-shameful, half-shaped, half-share, half-shark, half-sharp, half-shaven, half-sheep, half-sheet, half-sheets, half-shell, half-shocked, half-shoes, half-shouted, half-shudder, half-shut, half-shut-marble-eyed, half-shuttered, half-siblings, half-sideways, half-sigh, Half-sighted, half-significant, half-silhouette target, half-silvered, half-simulated, half-sings, Half-sister, Half-sister-in-law, half-sisters, half-sit, half-site, half-sites, half-sitting, half-six, half-size, half-sized, half-sizes, half-skipping, half-skull, half-slave, half-slavery, half-sleep, half-sleeping, half-sleeps, half-sleeves, half-sliding, half-slip, half-slipped, half-slope, half-slopes, half-slumber, half-slumped, half-sly, half-smashed, half-smile, half-smiled, half-smiles, half-smiling, half-smoked, half-smothered, half-smudge, half-snake, half-snarl, half-soaked, half-sob, half-sober, half-soft, half-solid, half-solved, half-somersault, half-somersaults, half-sound, half-sour, half-sovereign, half-sovereigns, half-space, half-span, half-spectacles, half-speech, half-speed, half-spent, half-spilling, half-split, half-spoken, half-sprawled, half-squatting, half-stack, half-stacked, half-stage, half-stand, half-standard, half-standards, half-standing, half-starved, half-starving, half-statement, half-step, half-stepping, half-steps, half-stewed, half-stifled, half-stirred, half-stone, half-stop, half-stoppered, Half-strained, half-strange, half-strangle, half-strangled, half-stratocaster, half-strength, half-stuff, half-stuffed, half-stumbled, half-stunned, half-subdued, half-submerged, half-succeeding, half-success, half-successful, half-suffocated, half-sung, half-sunk, half-sunken, half-supporting, half-suppressed, half-surrounded, half-surviving, half-suspected, half-suspended, half-swallowed, half-swam, half-swedish, half-swing, Half-sword, half-syllabuses, half-sympathetic, half-synod, half-synods, half-taken, half-tamed, half-tapped, half-tartan, half-taught, half-taught person, half-tearing, half-teaspoonful, half-tempted, half-ten, half-tender, half-term, half-termly, half-terms, half-terrified, half-tester, half-thickness, half-thing, half-thinking, half-thought, half-three, half-throttle, half-through, half-tickets, half-tide, half-tiled, half-timber, half-timbered, half-timbering, half-timbers, half-time, half-timer, half-timers, half-times, half-tipsy, half-tiresome, half-titel, half-title, half-titles, half-to-death, half-toise, half-told, half-tolerated, half-ton, Half-tone, half-tone screen, half-tones, Half-tongue, half-tonner, Half-tounue, half-track, half-track vehicle, half-tracked, half-tracks, half-trained, half-trot, half-trotskyite, half-trusted, half-truth, half-truthfully, half-truths, half-tsimshian, half-tube, half-tucked, half-turn, half-turned, half-twist, half-two, half-unbuckled, half-unbuttoned, half-uncial, half-uncle, half-uncles, half-unconscious, half-unconsciousness, half-uncovered, half-understood, half-undressed, half-units, half-up, half-used, half-value, half-vegetable, half-veil, half-veiled, half-villages, half-visible, half-voices, half-volley, half-volleyed, half-volleys, half-volunteer, half-wake, half-waking, half-walk, half-walked, half-walks-half-carries, half-wall, half-warily, half-warmed, half-warning, half-washed, half-watched, half-watching, half-water, half-wave, half-wave, half-wave antenna, half-wave length aerial, half-way, half-way house, half-wayline, half-wedged, half-welfare, half-wellingtons, half-welsh, half-western, half-wheel, half-whicker, half-whisper, half-whispered, half-whore, half-width, half-wild, half-winding, half-window, half-windows, half-wintry, half-wished, half-wishes, half-wishing, half-wit, half-withdrawn, half-wits, half-witted, half-wittingly, half-woke, half-woman, half-word, half-words, half-world, half-worried, half-wrapped, half-written, half-yard, half-yardland, half-yardlander, half-yardlanders, half-yardlands, half-yawn, half-year, half-yearly, half-yearly interest, half-years, half-year's, half-young-woman, half-zip. | |
Ending with "half": centre-half, eight-and-a-half, first-half, five-and-a-half, fly-half, four-and-a-half, hour-and-a-half, left-half, mile-and-a-half, nine-and-a-half, one-and-a-half, one-half, out-half, outside-half, right-half, scrum-half, second-half, seven-and-a-half, six-and-a-half, split-half, three-and-a-half, two-and-a-half, wing-half, year-and-a-half. | |
Containing "half": three-and-a-half-year, two-and-a-half-hour. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
half life | 7,277 | half life logo creator | 242 |
half life 2 | 3,355 | planet half life | 236 |
half life cd key | 1,821 | 2 half life trailer | 233 |
half moon bay | 1,478 | half marathon | 228 |
half price book | 1,305 | half baked | 228 |
robert half | 1,120 | half robert technology | 223 |
half life update | 993 | half dome | 222 |
half | 846 | 2 demo half life | 220 |
half life mods | 783 |