0 either of the two equal or nearly equal parts that together make up a whole:
"What's half of 96?" "48."
Roughly half (of) the class are Spanish and the others are a mixture of nationalities.
Half of me would just like to give it all up and travel around the world (= partly I would like to, but partly I would not).
She invited a lot of people to the party but half of them didn't turn up.
I'll meet you at half past nine (= 09.30 or 21.30).
UK informal I'll meet you at half seven (= half past seven).
I'm half inclined to take the job just because it's in Argentina.
The bottle's half empty.
1 either of two periods of time into which a game is divided
2 half a pint of a drink, especially beer:
4 either of the two equal or nearly equal parts that together make up a whole:
5 referring to either of the two equal or nearly equal parts that together make up a whole:
There were some tense moments in the second half of the game.
It tastes exactly the same as the real thing, but it has half the fat.
Two halves make a whole.
Over half his speech was devoted to the issue of unemployment.
Half-tone illustrations, requiring art paper plates, will be accepted in special circumstances.
The act of oviposition was very quick, often lasting less than half a second.
The top half of the students was allocated to the key class and the poorer half to the ordinary one.
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