Definition/Meaning of half

• English - Adjective: half ( not comparable ) Consisting of a moiety , or half (1/2, 50%). a half bushel ; a half hour ; a half dollar ; a half view Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half , whether more or less; partial; imperfect . a half dream ; half knowledge Alfred Tennyson: Assumed from thence a half consent . ( of a sibling ) Having one parent (rather than two) in common .…
• English - Adverb: half ( not comparable ) 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 John Dryden: Half loth and half consenting . Nehemiah 13:24 : Their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod. Translations
• English - Noun: half ( plural halves ) One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided , or considered as divided; — sometimes followed by of; as , a half of an apple . You don't know the half of it . (Can we date this quote?) , John Milton: Not half his riches known , and yet despised . (Can we date this quote?) , Alfred Tennyson: A friendship so complete Portioned in halves between…
• English - Verb: half ( third-person singular simple present halves , present participle halving , simple past and past participle halved ) ( transitive , obsolete ) To halve . Translations
• English - Preposition: half ( UK , Ireland ) a half-hour after , thirty minutes after ( used with the number of the hour ) half one — half past one , 1:30