HALF-ROUND

Date "HALF-ROUND" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Crosswords: HALF-ROUND

English words defined with "HALF-ROUND": Half-round hoop. (references)

Specialty definitions using "HALF-ROUND": FANCY-WIRE DRAWER ♦ gravity bar ♦ half-moon crosstie, half-round, half-round crosstie, half-round nose ♦ LEVEL-GLASS-FORMING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ mine prop ♦ pit prop, pitprops. (references)

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Specialty Definition: HALF-ROUND

Domain	Definition
Building & Civil Engineering	An economical crosstie made from barked half-round timber, little or no hewing being done on the rounded surface. Source: European Union. (references)
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Synonym: HALF-ROUND

Synonym by domain: half-moon (building & civil engineering, industry).

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Image Slideshow: HALF-ROUND

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Photo Album: HALF-ROUND

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Fig. 1. Boat spade to stop running whale. Fig. 2 Narrow cutting spade or thin boat spade. Fig. 3. Flat or round shank spade Fig. 4. Cutting spade for scarfing blubber. Fig. 5 Cutting spade for leaning up. Fig. 6. Half-round spade. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Usage Frequency: HALF-ROUND

"HALF-ROUND" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "HALF-ROUND" is used about 3 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
Adjective (general or positive)	66.67%	2	245,945
Noun (singular)	33.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	3	N/A

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

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Modern Translation: HALF-ROUND

Language		Translations for "HALF-ROUND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		tête hémisphérique inversée (inverted half-round head), tête hémisphérique (half-round head). (various references)

Pig Latin		alf-roundhay

Vietnamese		nửa vòng tròn bán nguyệt. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HALF-ROUND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-f-h-l-n-o-r-u"
	-2 letters: foulard, handful, nodular.
	-3 letters: around, dhurna, dourah, hadron, holard, ladron, lardon, lurdan, unfold, unload.
	-4 letters: adorn, afoul, ahold, aloud, doura, dural, fauld, flora, flour, fluor, fondu, found, fraud, frond, furan, hoard, honda, horal, hound, loran, lunar, nodal, radon, round, uhlan, ulnad, ulnar.
	-5 letters: auld, dahl, darn, dhal, dona, dour, dual, dura, durn, duro, fado.
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