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   half

   /hɑːf/

   noun

   • 1. either of two equal or corresponding parts into which something is or can be divided: "two and a half years"
   • ▪ either of two equal periods of time into which a sports game or a performance is divided.
   • ▪ half a pint of beer or a similar drink: "a half of bitter"
   • ▪ a half-price fare or ticket, especially for a child.
   • ▪ a score for an individual hole that is the same as one's opponent's: "she holed from six feet for a half at the seventeenth"
   • ▪ short for half back

   predeterminer

   • 1. an amount equal to a half: "half an hour"
   • ▪ an amount thought of as roughly a half: "half the audience were blubbing away"

   adverb

   • 1. to the extent of half: "the glass was half full"
   • ▪ to a certain extent; partly: "the chicken is half-cooked" Similar partiallypartlyincompletelyinadequatelyinsufficientlyslightlybarelyin partpartto a limited extent/degreein some measurenot totallynot whollynot entirelynot fullyto a certain extent/degreeto a limited extent/degreeto some extent/degree(up) to a pointin partpartlyin some measurealmostnearlyvery nearlyjust aboutall butinformal:ishOpposite completelyfully

   Word Origin Old Englishhalf, healf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch half and German halb (adjectives). The earliest meaning of the Germanic base was ‘side’, also a noun sense in Old English.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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