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halfways

adv. half of the way between two points; midway.

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halfways

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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]

Usage examples of "halfways".

Those Indians who live in houses nowadays usually pick a southeast slope, halfways down.

She was probably considering what he'd just said, a rare trait in even a halfways pretty young gal.

I might as well get word to Fort Washita, halfways there, whilst I'm at it.

But I got a couple of venison steaks in the freezer and a sofa bed upstairs that's halfways comfortable.

Estelle was swallowing like she'd stuck a piece of gum halfways down her throat, and Jaylee was blinking and teetering like she had to pee in the next five seconds.

Maybe that’s true, but if owning halfways helped plug Sonny into a subsidized treatment plan, that would appeal to his business sense.

I wouldn't say nothin, but she was jus bout the only person in the school I knew halfways, an it felt good setting there with her.