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half

(adjective)
1. Consisting of a moiety, or half (1/2, 50%)
  a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view
2. Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect
  a half dream; half knowledge
  - Tennyson:
    Assumed from thence a half consent.
3. Having one parent (rather than two) in common
  A or
4. Related through one common grandparent or ancestor rather than two
  A or or half cousin
(adverb)
1. In two equal parts or to an equal degree; in some part approximating a half; partially; imperfectly
  half-colored; half done; half-hearted; half persuaded; half conscious
  - Dryden:
    Half loth and half consenting.
  - Nehemiah 13:24:
    Their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod.
(noun)
1. 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.
  - Milton:
    Not half his riches known, and yet despised.
  - Tennyson:
    A friendship so complete Portioned in halves between us
2. Half of a standard measure; frequently used for half a pint of beer or cider.
  - 1968 , John Braine, The Crying Game, Houghton Mifflin, p. 11,
    He came back with a pint of Guinness for me and a half of bitter for Wendy.
  - 1974 , James Herriot, All Things Bright and Beautiful, St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312020309,
    I accepted a half of bitter from him.
  - 2006 , Bill Appleton, Wide Boy, Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie, ISBN 1843862530, p. 168,
    I went to the bar where I bought a pint and two large brandies. ... "Not brandy," she replied, "but I could use a long drink - maybe a half of lager."
3. The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2.
  Three-quarters minus a quarter is a half.
4. part; side; behalf — Wyclif
  - Chaucer:
    The four halves of the house
(verb)
1. To halve.

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