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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
halfway
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
halfway decent (=quite good)
▪ Their in-flight magazine is halfway decent.
halfway house
▪ Belief is a kind of halfway house between non-belief and absolute proof.
the halfway stage
▪ He was in the lead at the halfway stage.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
halfway through (sth)
▪ But it was halfway through the summer, and still no date had been set for an operation.
▪ But Sisson, in addition to bringing his story up to date with a final chapter, interjects halfway through a lengthy segment on his war.
▪ I run out of courage halfway through, and leave some.
▪ I was halfway through the gates before the first journalist reached me.
▪ If she was still at Keele she would be halfway through getting the various breakfasts by now.
▪ Major revisions were also found to be necessary halfway through the programme.
▪ The San Francisco venture shut down in January, less than halfway through its inaugural tour.
▪ We are at least halfway through the looking glass, on our way to utter chaos.
meet sb halfway
▪ Democrats plan to meet the Governor halfway on welfare cuts.
▪ Parents will be unable to afford their children's education unless colleges are prepared to meet them halfway.
▪ They won't pay all our expenses, but they might be prepared to meet us halfway.
the halfway mark
▪ During the night we passed Kingoonya, the half way mark.
▪ The Cohens were situated a little below the half way mark, just below the grand boulevard that cuts through the neighbourhood.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I filled my glass only halfway with orange juice.
▪ It's halfway between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Halfway

Halfway \Half"way`\ (h[aum]f"w[=a]`), adv. In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded.

Temples proud to meet their gods halfway.
--Young.

Halfway

Halfway \Half"way`\, a. Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway; as, at the halfway mark. [WordNet sense 1]

Syn: center(prenominal), middle(prenominal), midway.

2. partial. [WordNet sense 2]

3. including only half or a portion; incomplete; as, halfway measures. [WordNet sense 3]

Halfway covenant, a practice among the Congregational churches of New England, between 1657 and 1662, of permitting baptized persons of moral life and orthodox faith to enjoy all the privileges of church membership, save the partaking of the Lord's Supper. They were also allowed to present their children for baptism.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
halfway

also half-way, Old English healfweg; see half + way (n.). Halfway house originally was a common name for inns midway between cities or stages.

Wiktionary
halfway

adv. 1 half of the way between two points; midway. 2 moderately; somewhat.

WordNet
halfway
  1. adj. equally distant from the extremes [syn: center(a), middle(a), midway]

  2. at a point midway between two extremes; "at the halfway mark"

  3. including only half or a portion; "halfway measures"

  4. adv. at half the distance; at the middle; "he was halfway down the ladder when he fell" [syn: midway]

  5. [also: halfways]

Gazetteer
Halfway, MO -- U.S. village in Missouri
Population (2000): 176
Housing Units (2000): 74
Land area (2000): 2.135612 sq. miles (5.531209 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.135612 sq. miles (5.531209 sq. km)
FIPS code: 29962
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.617973 N, 93.233218 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Halfway, MO
Halfway
Halfway, OR -- U.S. city in Oregon
Population (2000): 337
Housing Units (2000): 196
Land area (2000): 0.426876 sq. miles (1.105604 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.426876 sq. miles (1.105604 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31650
Located within: Oregon (OR), FIPS 41
Location: 44.878209 N, 117.110659 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 97834
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Halfway, OR
Halfway
Halfway, MD -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Maryland
Population (2000): 10065
Housing Units (2000): 4424
Land area (2000): 4.686602 sq. miles (12.138243 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.686602 sq. miles (12.138243 sq. km)
FIPS code: 36125
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 39.616346 N, 77.765562 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Halfway, MD
Halfway
Wikipedia
Halfway (RIRTR station)

Halfway is a former Rochester Industrial and Rapid Transit Railway station located in Rochester, New York. It was closed in 1956 along with the rest of the line.

Halfway (film)

is a 2009 Japanese film by director Eriko Kitagawa.

Halfway (band)

Halfway is an eight piece alt-country band from Brisbane, Australia. The group have released five albums; most recently The Golden Halfway Record in April 2016.

Halfway

Halfway or Half Way may refer to:

Canada
  • Halfway Cove, Nova Scotia
Republic of Ireland
  • Halfway, County Cork
United Kingdom
  • Halfway, Berkshire, England
  • Halfway, Carmarthenshire, Wales
  • Halfway, Cambuslang, Scotland
  • Halfway, Glasgow, Scotland
  • Halfway, Sheffield, England
United States
  • Half Way, California
  • Halfway, Kentucky (disambiguation)
  • Halfway, Maryland
  • Halfway, Missouri
  • Halfway, Oregon
Other uses
  • Halfway, a brand of folding bicycle made by Giant Manufacturing
  • Halfway, a video game published by Chucklefish Games
  • "Halfway", a song by Algebra from her album Purpose (2008)

Usage examples of "halfway".

Taraboner accents, curtsying, and halfway through that, her face was suddenly that of Beonin Marinye.

The excavation was not going well and the Aedile had grown bored with it before it was halfway done.

Virgin Airbus A-340 cruised past the halfway point at thirty-seven thousand feet on the way from Boston to London.

Inside the bomber Aircraftman Grigson, halfway through his cigarette, knew immediately what had happened.

Damn if you dont look about halfway sober all of a sudden, said Rawlins.

He would recite the Amidah and sit down before I was halfway through, even though I skipped a lot.

Iron fire steps hung halfway down the wall to our left and then stopped: You would have to drop thirty feet, fleeing a fire, and then drive your broken anklebones up and into your shins.

Bavaria found the bones of an ancient archaeopteryx, a creature halfway between a bird and a dinosaur.

It was not a very big Chaga, not like the Kilimanjaro Chaga that had swallowed Moshi and Arusha and all the big Tanzanian towns at the foot of the mountain and was now halfway to Nairobi.

Halfway across, I got to a bowed-up place where I had to get down astraddle of the log and slide myself along.

He was halfway along the passage before he flung away his automatics, to snatch up revolvers that crooks had dropped.

Finally they neared the Chief as they entered the backstretch halfway around the track.

If three beats occur, say X, Y and Z, with Y occurring halfway between X and Z, and one neuron A responds to the durations X to Y and Y to Z, and another neuron B responds to the duration from X to Z, then we can determine that the ratio between the duration periods of neurons A and B is 1:2.

And halfway through feeding the birds, she saw the door from the stables open and Orain came into the court.

They took a cross-street to the section of Bonita Vista on the other side of their hill, and met Mike halfway up Sycamore Drive.