Dictionary Entry
half
half is a 4-letter English word with 12 senses as adjective, adverb, transitive verb, and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.
- 2adjective
Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a half dream; half knowledge.
- 3adverb
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.
- 4adjective
Part; side; behalf.
- 5adjective
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.
- 6transitive verb
To halve. [Obs.] See Halve.
- 7noun
one of two equal parts of a divisible whole
"half a loaf"
"half an hour"
- 8noun
one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval
- 9adjective
consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity
"a half chicken"
"lasted a half hour"
- 10adjective
(of siblings) related through one parent only
"a half brother"
"half sister"
- 11adjective
partial
"gave me a half smile"
"he did only a half job"
- 12adverb
partially or to the extent of a half
"he was half hidden by the bushes"
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