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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
half-length
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Helmsman, a half-length winner under Chris McCarron, paid $ 6. 60 as the bettors' favorite.
▪ It has both size drives, two free half-length 16-bit slots, and a further three empty full-length slots.
▪ Most are half-length casts made from a mould taken before 1902, which were also copied in wood and marble.
▪ On their feet both men and women wear half-length boots of yellow calfskin trimmed with a red stripe on the turned-down uppers.
▪ The half-length success boosted Melody's prize-money to a record £75,000 - and produced another nice bonus for handler Matt O'Donnell.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
half-length

abridged \abridged\ adj. 1. 1 shortened by condensing or rewriting; -- said of texts: an abridged version [Narrower terms: half-length] unabridged, full-length

Syn: condensed

WordNet
half-length

  1. adj. representing only the upper half of the body; "a half-length portrait"

  2. abridged to half its original length

  3. n. a portrait showing the body from only the waist up

Usage examples of "half-length".

In the circle of busts and half-length figures, the first new work to the left of the door on entering is a figure that holds a lamb, the two half-length figures that come next in sequence are also new--the second of these is a nun holding a little temple.

Catherine's we took a sixteen-century half-length Joseph who turned out to be authentic, a few candelabra, some chalices, patens, and cruets, and a Corpus Christi banner.

In the dresser drawer there still remained a half-length slip of black faille, hemmed with a pleated flounce and fine Valenciennes lace, which was made to be worn under a pleated sun skirt of black wool which was too sheer not to be transparent.