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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
halve
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a number halves (=becomes twice as small)
▪ The number of children failing at school has halved in recent years.
in two/halves/pieces etc
▪ I tore the letter in two and threw the pieces in the fire.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ But Coun Carr stressed that the 1990-1 debt had been almost halved from £6.5m to £3.5m in just nine months.
▪ Most strikingly, the Daily Mirror almost halved its public-affairs coverage as a proportion of space in 1937 compared with 1927.
▪ Numbers are down from 700 to 500, as the town's population has almost halved since independence in 1991.
▪ At the same time step-parent adoptions have been discouraged and have almost halved since the Children Act 1975.
▪ The council tax means the number of bills to be processed will be almost halved to forty six thousand.
▪ The chances of being killed in a road accident have almost halved since 1979.
▪ The company's workforce has been almost halved to 102 in three years.
▪ The suicide rate for young men has doubled since the early Eighties, while for women it has almost halved.
■ NOUN
number
▪ If no X appears, halve the numbers that appear on lines 5 and 13.
▪ It contained a plan to halve the number of places in children's day centres from 1989.
rate
▪ A half-speed recorder would effectively halve the rate of tax that consumers would pay, should a levy be introduced.
value
▪ In the first place, the pension being offered was roughly halved in value.
▪ As a rule, these differences will do no more than double or halve the average value.
▪ But that estimate has risen sharply because most rely on importing components, and the rouble has since halved in value.
▪ It is being paid by people whose money, as of 1 July, has been halved in value.
▪ Linda knew if she offered the chocs around the loss of the four best ones would halve the value of her box.
▪ Not only has their home halved in value.
year
▪ In the past 10 years drink-driving deaths have halved to 700 a year.
▪ In Gloucestershire, the number of positive pre-Christmas breath tests has halved in 6 years, reflecting a public change of attitude.
▪ At one site, the amount of coral had been halved in just three years.
▪ But after death, the amount of radiocarbon decreases at a fixed rate: it halves every 5730 years.
▪ City experts say profits could halve over the next year as the other supermarket chains eat into Gateway's market share.
▪ Meanwhile, the price of laser-printers halves every four years or so, and their resolution and speed continue to improve.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
go halves (on sth)
▪ Do you want to go halves on a pizza?
▪ He generously agrees to go halves on you.
▪ She'd promised to go halves with him if he got anywhere in his negotiations.
go halves (with sb)
not do sth by halves
▪ I'm sure it will be a fantastic wedding. Eva never does anything by halves.
▪ He comes from a family that does not do things by halves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Halve the eggplant lengthwise and hollow out the center.
▪ His 13-year prison term was halved because of good behavior.
▪ The overseas aid budget has been almost halved, from $18m to just over $10m.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At the current rate, costs will be halved again within a decade.
▪ Farming clubs have seen their incomes halved and, if the economics pundits are right, will soon be halved again.
▪ He aims to halve unemployment to four percent by 2000 by spending about 10 billion kronor to educate and train workers.
▪ The dish can be halved or quartered as needed.
▪ This is estimated at 1.1m pairs and has more than halved in the past 30 years.
▪ Thus, assuming two-thirds of those retiring were replaced in work by unemployment beneficiaries, the financial costs could have been halved.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Halve

Halve \Hal"ve\ (h[aum]l"ve), n. A half. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

Halve

Halve \Halve\ (h[aum]v), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Halved (h[aum]vd); p. pr. & vb. n. Halving.] [From Half.]

  1. 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.

  2. (Arch.) To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.

  3. Of a hole, match, etc., to reach or play in the same number of strokes as an opponent.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
halve

c.1200, halfen "to divide in halves;" see half. Meaning "to reduce by half" is from c.1400. Related: Halved; halving.

Wiktionary
halve

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
halve

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.

The scenes in Oswiecim, or Auschwitz, are based on a study of the available documents and literature, as well Is on consultations with survivors, These scenes halve been meticulously reviewed for authenlicity by erdnent authorities on this terrible subject.

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.