Crossword clues for halve
halve
- Divide into two equal parts
- Divide evenly
- Break in two
- Share and share alike
- Divide into two
- Tie a golf hole
- Split up equally
- Slice in two
- Share fifty-fifty
- Reduce by fifty percent
- Make equal parts, maybe
- Cut evenly
- Cut by 50 percent
- Split in twain
- Split fairly, often
- Slice down the middle
- Share 50-50
- Reduce by 50 percent
- Divide equally in two
- Cut equally
- Cut a sandwich, say
- Poorly made glove has split down the middle
- Gambler with small beers for spouses
- Bisect
- Downsize, in a way
- Split in two
- Split, in a way
- Cut in two
- Cut into two equal parts
- Divide equally, perhaps
- Share equally
- Reduce by 50%
- Tie score on a golf hole
- Reduce 50%
- Volume in well down by 50%
- Very healthy wraps cut into two pieces
- Cut into two equal pieces
- Cut into two equal portions
- Split fifty-fifty
- Be obliged to keep line significantly cut
- Divide by two
- Tear into two very fit guards
- Cut drastically
- Divide in two
- Split down the middle
- Split evenly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Halve \Hal"ve\ (h[aum]l"ve), n.
A half. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Halve \Halve\ (h[aum]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Halved (h[aum]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. Halving.] [From Half.]
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To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or form half of.
So far apart their lives are thrown From the twin soul that halves their own.
--M. Arnold. (Arch.) To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
Of a hole, match, etc., to reach or play in the same number of strokes as an opponent.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, halfen "to divide in halves;" see half. Meaning "to reduce by half" is from c.1400. Related: Halved; halving.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To reduce to half the original amount. 2 (context transitive English) To divide into two halves. 3 (context transitive English) To make up half of. 4 (context architecture transitive English) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together. 5 (cx golf transitive English) In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.
WordNet
v. divide by two; divide into halves; "Halve the cake"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "halve".
Eline zich bij hem en las hem voor, of zong met halve stem bij haar piano, nu een fraze, dan een roulade, en Vincent luisterde droomend toe, verloren in een vreemd vizioen vol zonderlinge geuren en vale tinten, die zich met krullende arabesken dooreen woelden als een caleidoscoop van coloriet en parfum.
Nicolaas wiens tabbaard bepaald afzakte en reeds een halve el over zijn voeten golfde, terwijl een blonde reep tusschen zijn grijze lokken en zijn mijter zichtbaar was.
In ten years the number of Spartiates will halve again - how then will Sparta remain pre-eminent?
He had heard of cursed swords, and passing the curse along to someone else only made sense, even though Andros insisted on halving what he would have paid for their catch in payment for taking it and its curse away.
The noses and tongues of the bison were saved-choice delicacies along with livers -- then the carcasses were cut into seven pieces: two hindquarters, two forequarters, the mid-section halved, and the huge neck.
Third, I have halved the number of mantlets these models have put outside the flanking walls and going nowhere of much help in getting troops on top of the assault platform.
The floor was of puncheons, logs halved and set edge to edge instead of being fully squared.
The distance had been halved between Jason and the treasure that he so keenly coveted, yet the captain of the Argo was moodier than ever, downcast over the two most recent deaths among his company.
The Spanish Argonauta intercepted Joshua, and the two of them squared off in a furious duel of their own, but Halve Maan took station just astern of Amelia and began hammering away at Santiago's starboard quarter.
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Halved, stripped, gutted and chined, like a pig, but still certainly a man.
Its head was disproportionally large, bent forward as if in serene meditation, the brain a gleaming shadow with the cerebrum neatly halved.
He had, unbeknownst to Leovinus, instructed contractors to halve and then quarter the specifications of any number of elements on board.
The buddha, protecting his halved companion from the disillusioning sight of this mechanized muezzin, whose call to prayer would always be scratched in the same places, extracted from the folds of his shapeless robe a glinting object: and turned his milky gaze upon the silver spittoon.
He found himself looking into his cousin's closed heart as into the halved shell of a coiled and chambered nautilus.