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biological half-time
fifty percent
half
Half pay
half-and-half
half-baked

half-breed
half-hour
half-life
half-mast
half-price
one-half

While one person is performing this operation, another takes a ripe cocoanut, and breaking it in halves, which they also do very cleverly, proceeds to grate the juicy meat into fine particles.

Typee by Melville, Herman View in context

Divide it in halves, give half as the share of labor, the surplus left you will be greater, and the share of labor will be greater too.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

But one thing is most admirable (wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship), which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend, works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in halves.

The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context

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