noun
The quality of being half; incompleteness.
adjective
1.An amount equal to a half.
‘half an hour’
‘almost half the children turned up’
2.An amount thought of as roughly a half.
‘half the audience were blubbing away’
‘half of them are gatecrashers’
adverb
1.To a certain extent; partly.
‘the chicken is half-cooked’
‘I am half inclined to believe you’
2.To the extent of half.
‘the glass was half full’
‘Nicabar declared sarcastically as he pushed his coffee aside and picked up a half full bottle of alcohol.’
noun
1.
‘He plays half or end.’
‘If he plays half for the Knights today, though, I hope the selectors watch him.’
2.A half-price fare or ticket, especially for a child.
‘Hey, to the guy who bought a half for 80, you’re a moron.’
3.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’
‘Scott drove into the rough and had to lay up, but he pitched to six feet and, crucially for his morale, holed for a half to keep him level.’
4.Either of two equal or corresponding parts into which something is or can be divided.
‘two and a half years’
‘the northern half of the island’
5.Either of two equal periods of time into which a sports game or a performance is divided.
‘What is more exciting in football at any level than a scoring drive in the last few minutes of a half or a game?’
‘The matches would feel more real and there would be less of a need to go through the half-dozen substitutions which regularly mark the second halves of such games.’
6.Half a pint of beer or a similar drink.
‘a half of bitter’
‘I then suggested that perhaps all they needed was a nice cup of coffee or a half of shandy and they looked at me as though I were a paedophile.’
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adjective
‘half an hour’
