Antonyms for halves

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : havz, hahvz

Phonetic Transcription : hævz, hɑvz

combine

Definition of halves

Origin : Old English half, halb (Mercian), healf (W. Saxon) "side, part," not necessarily of equal division (original sense preserved in behalf), noun, adjective, and adverb all in Old English, from Proto-Germanic *khalbas "something divided" (cf. Old Saxon halba, Old Norse halfr, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch half, German halb, Gothic halbs "half"), perhaps from PIE (s)kel- "to cut."
Used also in Old English phrases as in modern German, to mean "one half unit less than," e.g. þridda healf "two and a half," literally "half third." The construction in two and a half, etc., is first recorded c.1200. Of time, in half past ten, etc., first attested 1750; in Scottish, the half often is prefixed to the following hour, as in German (e.g. halb elf "ten thirty"). To go off half-cocked "speak or act too hastily" (1833) is in allusion to firearms going off prematurely.

noun one of two equal parts of a whole
verb cut in half

Example sentences :

I was on the way, my Love, to meet you (I never do things by halves), when I got your card.
Extract from : « The Letters of Robert Burns » by Robert Burns

Everything which benefits one of the halves benefits the other.
Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel

Spread the jam at the bottom, and lay on it the sponge cakes, cut in halves.
Extract from : « The Skilful Cook » by Mary Harrison

Put them in the milk, with the onions cut in halves, and pepper and salt.
Extract from : « The Skilful Cook » by Mary Harrison

When the fruit is nearly ripe, pare and cut some in halves; break the stones, blanch the kernels, and put them to the fruit.
Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton

For myself, I divide it into two halves—the one petitioning, the other offering.
Extract from : « The Golden Fountain » by Lilian Staveley

They were aware that Arulai's "marks" were likely to be emphatic, for Arulai never does things by halves.
Extract from : « Lotus Buds » by Amy Carmichael

As you know, we produced our halves of the formula separately.
Extract from : « The Long Voyage » by Carl Richard Jacobi

The bolt had been taken by the door—and one of the door's two halves was ajar!
Extract from : « The Affair of the Brains » by Anthony Gilmore

But how is one gentleman's servant to split himself in halves?
Extract from : « Love and Lucy » by Maurice Henry Hewlett

Synonyms for halves

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