VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / halves

Thesaurus: halves

of Half

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

Definitions

  1. pl. of Half
  2. n. pl. of Half.
  3. pl. of Half. By halves, by one half at once; halfway; fragmentarily; partially; incompletely. I can not believe by halves; either I have faith, or I have it not. J. H. Newman. To go halves. See under Go.
  4. pl. of Half. By halves, by one half at once; halfway;fragmentarily; partially; incompletely.I can not believe by halves; either I have faith, or I have it not.J. H. Newman.To go halves. See under Go.
  5. n one of two equal parts of a divisible whole n one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval v divide by two; divide into halves