|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.A half-price fare or ticket, especially for a child.
‘Hey, to the guy who bought a _half_ for 80, you're a moron.’
2.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.’
3.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’
4.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.’
5.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.’
6.short for half back
‘He plays _half_ or end.’
‘If he plays _half_ for the Knights today, though, I hope the selectors watch him.’
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|adjective|
‘ _half_ an hour’
