Half
Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.
Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge.
In an equal part or degree; in some pa/ appro/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half persuaded, half conscious.
Part; side; behalf.
One of two equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided; -- sometimes followed by of; as, a half of an apple.
To halve. [Obs.] See Halve.
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Half Quotations
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill
Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
Half a truth is often a great lie.
Benjamin Franklin
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
Benjamin Franklin
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.
Benjamin Franklin
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis
I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.
John Locke
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau
Well begun is half done.
Aristotle
Half Translations
half in Danish is halvdel
half in Dutch is half
half in Finnish is puolikas
half in Latin is dimidium
half in Norwegian is halv, halvdel
half in Portuguese is meio
half in Spanish is semi, medio, mitad
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