Definition von a-half im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
- acting scrum-half
- a player, other than the scrum-half, who temporarily acts as a scrum-half, while the scrum-half is unavailable due to being involved in the breakdown, injury, or having been sin-binned
- all over hell's half acre
- All over the place; everywhere
We came back outside and the neat pile of leaves we had raked had been blown all over Hell’s half acre.
- baker's half dozen
- Seven, a group of seven
- better half
- A person's close friend or companion
- better half
- A person's spouse or lover, most commonly a man's wife. Generally a compliment or sign of respect
My better half won't be coming tonight.
- centre half
- A player in a former position corresponding to the modern centre-back
- cheap at half the price
- Humorous reference that something is quite expensive
After breakfast, Shirley and Gordon walked down the street to a shopping mall to look at fancy clothes and high priced jewelry. Cheap at half the price, Gordon observed. Shirley smiled.
- cheap at half the price
- Refers to something being satisfactorily cheap
After he'd convinced you you'd only got one leg – the left – he'd sell you a gross of right-footed shoes. Cheap at half the price! A real bargain. Afterwards, you'd feel you'd been done a favour to, and obligingly walk off with a limp.
- first half
- The period of play before half time, as opposed to the second half
- first-half
- Occurring in the first half
Polansky scored a first-half goal to level the scores at 2-2.
- fly-half
- Rugby player who is normally the first receiver of the ball from the scrum half after a scrum; a half-back
- go off half-cocked
- : To take a premature or ill-considered action
Make sure none of your men go off half-cocked and ruin this operation.
- half
- Having one parent (rather than two) in common
A half brother or half sister.
- half
- The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2
Three-quarters minus a quarter is a half.
- half
- Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect
Assumed from thence a half consent.
- half
- part; side; behalf — Wyclif
The four halves of the house.
- half
- Related through one common grandparent or ancestor rather than two
A half uncle or half aunt or half cousin.
- half
- Consisting of a moiety, or half (1/2, 50%)
a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.
- half
- In two equal parts or to an equal degree; in some part approximating a half; partially; imperfectly
Their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod.
- half
- Half of a standard measure; frequently used for half a pint of beer or cider
I went to the bar where I bought a pint and two large brandies. ... Not brandy, she replied, but I could use a long drink - maybe a half of lager..
- half
- 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
A friendship so complete Portioned in halves between us.
- half
- To halve
- half a mind
- A moderate inclination
His behaviour gives me half a mind to throw him out.
- half adder
- A specific logical circuit that performs an addition operation on two bits
- half and half
- In two equal parts
- half and half
- A mixture of cream and milk often used in coffee, defined by the US Food and Drug Administration to contain between 10.5% and 18% milk fat
- half and half
- A person of mixed race or with dual nationality
- half and half
- A combination of both rice and chips as an accompaniment to a curry, as opposed to one or the other
- half and half
- Half one thing and half another
- half and half
- A mixture of two alcoholic beverages, most frequently those brewed from malt, such as porter and ale or mild and bitter beers, in about equal parts; also used for equal parts of an alcoholic beverage and water
- half and half
- In equal parts; half
- half aunt
- A half sister of one's parent
- half aunt
- A half sister-in-law one's parent
- half bath
- A bathroom or lavatory in a home containing a sink and a toilet, but no bathtub or shower
- half bathroom
- A room with a toilet (the device) and, typically, a sink, but no shower or bathtub
- half baths
- plural form of half bath
- half board
- an arrangement in which a hotel etc provides bed and breakfast and an evening meal, but no meal at lunchtime
- half brother
- A male sibling who has a different mother, but the same father. (Also known as paternal half brother)
- half brother
- A male sibling who has a different father, but the same mother. (Also known as maternal half brother)
- half brother-in-law
- The husband of the half-sister of one's spouse
- half brother-in-law
- The husband of one's half-sister
- half brother-in-law
- The half brother of one's spouse
- half cell
- Either of the two parts of an electrochemical cell containing an electrode and an electrolyte
- half cousin
- The son or daughter of one's half-uncle or half-aunt
- half cut
- Rather drunk
You think: That old fella's woken up still half-cut and put on his girlfriend's shoes by mistake..
- half gross
- Seventy two - 12 x 6 (historical)
- half hitch
- A knot or hitch made by passing the end of the rope once around the standing part or other rope
- half hitches
- plural form of half hitch
- half marathon
- A running race over the distance of 21.0975 km, half the length of a marathon
- half marathons
- plural form of half marathon
- half nelson
- A hold in which the wrestler applying the hold puts one arm under the arm of their opponent and applies pressure to the back of their opponents head or neck
- half nelsons
- plural form of half nelson
- half nephew
- Son of one's half brother or half sister
- half niece
- Daughter of one's half brother or half sister
- half note
- A musical note length also called a minim, half the length of a semibreve, equal in length to two crotchets. It is drawn on staves as an unfilled loop with a stem
- half orphan
- A person, especially a child, with only one living parent
- half orphans
- plural form of half orphan
- half past
- thirty minutes past any hour
- half rest
- A symbol used in musical notation drawn as a solid rectangle directly above the middle line of a staff whose height is half the distance between lines
- half rest
- A half rest is a pause or interval of silence equal in duration to two quarter rests or one half of a whole rest. In common or 4/4 time, its duration is two beats
- half rests
- plural form of half rest
- half rhyme
- An imperfect rhyme in which consonants agree, but vowels do not
- half rhymes
- plural form of half rhyme
- half shell
- Any half of a roughly spherical-like object; any dome-shaped object
- half shell
- Inexpensive; not overpriced
- half shell
- Either half of a clamshell especially when used to serve individual portions of spiced, minced, breaded, baked clams
- half shells
- plural form of half shell
- half sister
- The daughter of one's father who has a different mother, paternal half sister
- half sister
- The daughter of one's mother who has a different father, maternal half sister, uterine sister
- half sister-in-law
- The wife of the half-brother of one's spouse
- half sister-in-law
- The half sister of one's spouse
- half sister-in-law
- The wife of one's half-brother
- half sisters
- plural form of half sister
- half sovereign
- A former British gold coin having a value of ten shillings
- half space
- A broad step between flights of a stair
- half space
- Any of the two parts of three-dimensional space divided by a plane
- half step
- An interval of which there are seven in a fifth or twelve in an octave, consisting of two tones whose frequency ratio is about 1.059 or 18/17
- half time
- the time taken for a physical quantity to halve the difference between its present value and its final value
- half time
- the interval between the two halves of a sports match
- half title
- A book title printed on the recto of the page preceding the main title page, or sometimes at the top of the first page of the text
- half viaduct
- A type of viaduct built into a hillside, where only part of the road is supported by the structure
- half volley
- A delivery that bounces just short of the blockhole
- half volley
- A stroke, in ball sports, in which the ball is hit immediately after it bounces off the ground
- half wish
- To want to do something, but not quite enough to do it, in fact. Usually for some impediment
He does sometimes half wish to change his life, but it is too difficult.
- half-
- A prefix used before brother, sister, uncle, aunt, and so forth, to indicate that the person being identified is related only through one parent, grandparent, and so forth, rather than two
- half-
- A prefix used to indicate that something is just half or done half, and therefore not total or fully done
- half-and-half
- Alternative spelling of half and half
- half-arsed
- Alternative spelling of half-assed
- half-asleep
- Showing signs of being asleep or very sleepy, as not demonstrating full energy or attention
He gently lifted the half-asleep child into bed.
- half-ass
- To perform a task incompletely or carelessly. Usually considered derogatory or insulting
if you're working for me and I send you to do a job and you half-ass it, that reflects on me. In civilian life, we'd just fire you. Here I can't get rid of you.
- half-ass
- Produced in an incompetent or desultory manner, or of something lacking in quality or substance; of low rank; incompetent
the only abortion she could get even in the city would be a half-ass job by some half-ass doctor who could mess her up for the rest of her life.
- half-assed
- poorly or incompetently done
- half-awake
- being nearly awake
- half-back
- - the half backs are the scrum-half and the fly-half
- half-baked
- Incomplete; not fully planned or carefully considered, ill-conceived, unsound or badly thought-out; foolish or having no common sense
The guy had some half-baked idea for getting rich in the stock market.
- half-ball
- Describes a shot where the cue ball and the object ball make contact at a natural 45º angle. So called because the view from the cue ball is half eclipsing the object ball
The shot needs to be slightly thicker than half-ball to get to the center pocket.
- half-blooded
- having parents of mixed ethnicities
- half-blooded
- having only one parent that comes from known pedigree
- half-blooded
- having only one parent in common
- half-break
- Where a player almost breaks the opposition defensive line but is stopped by the opposition
- half-breed
- having one purebred parent; hybrid
- half-breed
- A person of mixed racial parentage or ancestry, especially one of mixed white and American Indian parentage
- half-brother
- Alternative spelling of half brother
- half-caste
- Describing someone of mixed racial descent in a derogatory manner
- half-caste
- A derogatory name for a person of mixed racial descent
- half-cell
- Alternative spelling of half cell
- half-cocked
- Not fully prepared
- half-cocked
- Not fully cocked
- half-court line
- The line parallel to the end lines and midway between them
- half-court violation
- A turnover occurring when the team with possession, having brought the ball over the half-court line causes it to cross back over the line without interference from the other team
- half-cousin
- The child of one's parent's half-sibling
- half-crown
- A pre-decimal coin used in Britain and Ireland, now obsolete, equivalent to two shillings and six pence
- half-dozen
- Alternative spelling of half dozen
- half-elf
- A person who is half elven and half human by birth
- half-equation
- Either of two equations that describe each half of a redox reaction
- half-halt
- a specific riding aid given by an equestrian to his horse
- half-hardy
- A plant which requires protection against frost
- half-hearted
- Not sincere; lacking full energy, effort, commitment, or resolve
He made a half-hearted attempt to read the chapter before giving up and dozing off.
- half-hitch
- Alternative spelling of half hitch
- half-hour
- The time of thirty minutes past any particular hour
- half-hour
- A period of time equal to thirty minutes
- half-hourlong
- which lasts half an hour, or approximately so
- half-inch
- To pinch, to steal
- half-integer
- Any number obtained by dividing an odd integer by two
- half-jacket
- A short coat or jacket
- half-jacket
- A short bullet jacket which leaves some of the bullet in contact with the bore
- half-life
- The time required for half of the nuclei in a sample of a specific isotope to undergo radioactive decay
- half-life
- The time it takes for an idea or a fashion to lose half of its influential power
Most books of scholarship have surprisingly short intellectual 'half-lives during which they make a difference.
- half-life
- The time it takes for a substance (drug, radioactive nuclide, or other) to lose half of its pharmacological, physiologic, or radiological activity
- half-life
- In a chemical reaction, the time required for the concentration of a reactant to fall from a chosen value to half that value
- half-light
- The soft, greyish light characteristic of dawn or dusk
- half-line
- ray; a line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point
- half-mast
- The lowered position, half the height of a mast, at which a flag is flown when expressing respect for the dead
- half-metal
- Any substance that acts as a conductor to electrons of one spin orientation, but as an insulator to those of the opposite orientation
- half-metallic
- That is made half of a metal and half of some other material
- half-metallic
- of or relating to a half-metal
- half-moon
- the moon, in its first or last quarter, when only half the face is illuminated
- half-moon
- anything shaped like a crescent, especially the base of a fingernail
- half-naked
- With very few clothes on
- half-naked
- With very few clothes on; revealing lots of one's body
- half-nephew
- Alternative spelling of half nephew
- half-niece
- Alternative spelling of half niece
- half-noble
- An ancient unit of currency of England, equivalent to half a noble
- half-open
- containing only one of its endpoints
- half-open
- Partially open; ajar
- half-open interval
- An interval in the real line which contains one of its endpoints but not the other one: i.e., it either contains its supremum or its infimum but not both
- half-past
- Attributive form of half past, noun
His half-past bathroom break.
- half-pint
- A unit of volume used for liquids equal to half of a pint
- half-pint
- A small child
- half-pint
- Half a pint of beer
- half-pipe
- A structure used to perform tricks, approximately semicircular in cross-section, resembling the bottom half of a cylinder laying down
- half-price
- for sale at half the normal price
- half-price
- for half of the normal price
- half-reaction
- Either the oxidation or the reduction component of a redox reaction
- half-shower
- a pattern which consist of throwing the objects thrown by one hand over the top of the objects thrown by the other hand. Each object is thrown to the opposite hand
- half-sibling
- The child of one's parent, but only one parent
- half-sister
- Alternative spelling of half sister
- half-staff
- half-mast
- half-standard
- In gardening, a tree or shrub whose branches start from three to four feet from the ground. This makes the entire plant lower than a plant of the same type of the standard form
- half-timbered
- Describes a building constructed using timber framing methods
- half-timbering
- A method of construction using heavy timber beams, usually joined by tenon and mortice joints pegged together
- half-time
- of, or relating to half time
the half-time whistle.
- half-time
- Alternative spelling of half time
- half-title
- a page before the title-page containing the book's title but no title-page details
- half-track
- Describing such a vehicle; half-tracked
- half-track
- A vehicle combining both wheels and treads (caterpillar tracks)
- half-tracker
- A ball bowled so as to pitch roughly half way down the wicket, ie. half-way between batsman and bowler. (From a slow bowler this is a poor delivery, likely to be hit to the boundary.)
2004: We'd got ourselves into a great position, and if I'd hit that half-tracker for six, we would've won the game. — Darren Lehmann.
- half-truth
- A deceptive statement, especially one that is only partly true, is incomplete, (misrepresents reality by telling part of the truth), or alters the time sequence of truths
- half-uncle
- A half brother-in-law of one's parent
- half-uncle
- A half-brother of one's parent
- half-volley
- Alternative spelling of half volley
- half-wit
- A person of around half the average intelligence of his or her peers
- half-wit
- A stupid or inept person
- half-witted
- Having a low intelligence; dim-witted
- half-yearly
- Two in a year; semiannual
- half-yearly
- Twice in a year; semiannually
- hell and half of Georgia
- a very large region; everywhere
The hitch is that the ship is so powerful—it must be, to do the things for which it has been designed—that its twin rotors blast away Hell and half of Georgia with the turbulence it causes on landing or taking off.
- not half
- Greatly; to a considerable extent
You bet she wouldn't like fer me to be killed--not 'arf!....
- not half bad
- Pretty good; okay; decent
It was his first attempt at cooking, but I tried it and it was not half bad.
- on the half hour
- happening hourly, but at 30 minutes past each hour; ie, 08: 30, 09: 30 etc
Trains leave from here to New York every hour on the half hour.
- open half space
- A half space that does not include the plane that bounds it
- other half
- a spouse
- rear admiral (lower half)
- A naval officer of equivalent grade or rank in the navy of other counties
- rear admiral (lower half)
- A commissioned officer in the United States Navy, Coast Guard, NOAA Corps, or PHS Corps of a grade superior to a captain and junior to a rear admiral (upper half). A rear admiral (lower half) is equal in grade or rank to an Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force brigadier general
- rear admiral (upper half)
- A flag officer in the United States Navy, United States Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps, or Public Health Service Commissioned Corps of a grade superior to a rear admiral (lower half) and junior to a vice admiral. A rear admiral (upper half) is equal in grade or rank to an Army, Marine Corps, or Air Force major general. A rear admiral (upper half) wears a two star insignia on most uniforms and a gold stripe above a broad gold stripe on the sleeve of certain dress uniforms
- rear admiral (upper half)
- A naval officer of equivalent grade or rank in the navy of other countries
- rear admiral lower half
- Common misspelling of rear admiral (lower half)
- rear admiral upper half
- Common misspelling of rear admiral (upper half)
- scrum-half
- player who introduces the ball into a scrum
- second half
- The period of play after half time, as opposed to the first half
- second-half
- Alternative spelling of second half
- second-half
- Occurring in the second half
Abramson scored a great second-half goal to level the scores at 2-2.
- six of one, half a dozen of the other
- The two alternatives are equivalent or indifferent; it doesn't matter which one we choose
- six of one, half a dozen of the other
- Equally involved; equally responsible
- time and a half
- a rate of pay 50% greater than normal; especially for overtime
- well begun is half done
- Much depends on the beginning of an endeavor
- half
- {n} halves, one of two equal parts
- half-penny
- {n} half a penny
- half and half
- (adverb & adjective) in equal parts
- half and half
- (American English) a mixture that is half milk and half cream, used in coffee or tea
- half and half
- (noun) a mixture of milk and cream
- half and half
- Half and half refers to various beverages or liquid foods made of an equal-parts mixture of two substances, including dairy products, alcoholic beverages, and soft drinks
- half and half
- (Argo) A service that is offered, and performed, by a prostitute. One half is oral sex, the other half is vaginal sex
That was a cheap trick, he gave me fifty for a half and half.
- six of one and half a dozen of the other
- (deyim) A situation in which there is little difference between two alternatives
- half and half
- A mixture of half cream and half whole milk
- half and half
- {i} half one thing and half another; mix of milk and cream
- half and half
- Mixture of bitter ale and Pilsner beer, hence Yuengling Porter and Beer Also used interchangeably with Black and Tan In England this is specifically Guiness and Harp
- half and half
- A blend of light cream and milk, which produces a cream with about 12% milk fat
- half and half
- A mixture of half cream, half milk The fat content is between 10 and 12 percent
- half-and-half
- in equal parts; "a half-and-half mixture"
- half-and-half
- half milk and half light cream; contains 10% to 18% butterfat
- half-and-half
- in equal parts; "it was divided half-and-half
- half-and-half
- in equal parts; "it was divided half-and-half"
- half-and-half
- half milk and half light cream; contains 10% to 18% butterfat in equal parts; "a half-and-half mixture"
- half-and-half
- a mixture that is half milk and half cream, used in coffee or tea
- half-and-half dressing
- half mayonnaise and half vinaigrette seasoned with minced garlic and mashed anchovies and grated Parmesan cheese; especially good for combination salads