Synonyms for halves
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : havz, hahvz |
| Phonetic Transcription : hævz, hɑvz |
Top 10 synonyms for halves
Définition of halves
Origin :- Old English half, halb (Mercian), healf (W. Saxon) "side, part," not necessarily of equal division (original sense preserved in behalf), noun, adjective, and adverb all in Old English, from Proto-Germanic *khalbas "something divided" (cf. Old Saxon halba, Old Norse halfr, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch half, German halb, Gothic halbs "half"), perhaps from PIE (s)kel- "to cut."
- Used also in Old English phrases as in modern German, to mean "one half unit less than," e.g. þridda healf "two and a half," literally "half third." The construction in two and a half, etc., is first recorded c.1200. Of time, in half past ten, etc., first attested 1750; in Scottish, the half often is prefixed to the following hour, as in German (e.g. halb elf "ten thirty"). To go off half-cocked "speak or act too hastily" (1833) is in allusion to firearms going off prematurely.
- noun one of two equal parts of a whole
- verb cut in half
- I was on the way, my Love, to meet you (I never do things by halves), when I got your card.
- Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns
- Everything which benefits one of the halves benefits the other.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- Spread the jam at the bottom, and lay on it the sponge cakes, cut in halves.
- Extract from : « The Skilful Cook » by Mary Harrison
- Put them in the milk, with the onions cut in halves, and pepper and salt.
- Extract from : « The Skilful Cook » by Mary Harrison
- When the fruit is nearly ripe, pare and cut some in halves; break the stones, blanch the kernels, and put them to the fruit.
- Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
- For myself, I divide it into two halves—the one petitioning, the other offering.
- Extract from : « The Golden Fountain » by Lilian Staveley
- They were aware that Arulai's "marks" were likely to be emphatic, for Arulai never does things by halves.
- Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael
- As you know, we produced our halves of the formula separately.
- Extract from : « The Long Voyage » by Carl Richard Jacobi
- The bolt had been taken by the door—and one of the door's two halves was ajar!
- Extract from : « The Affair of the Brains » by Anthony Gilmore
- But how is one gentleman's servant to split himself in halves?
- Extract from : « Love and Lucy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Antonyms for halves
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