halve

Bedeutung (Englisch)

  1. (transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.
  2. (transitive) To divide into two halves.
  3. (transitive) To make up half of.
  4. (transitive) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
  5. (transitive) In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.

Konzepte

Verminderung um die Hälfte

Verringerung um die Hälfte

Reduzierung auf die Hälfte

Synonyme

split in half

divide into two

split in two

cut in half

cut in two

reduction by half

divide equally

divide in halves

share equally

make less

drink up a half

eat up a half

reduce by a half

Übersetzungen

diviser en deux

ridurre della metà

tagliare a metà

διχοτομώ

réduire de moitié

couper en deux

διχάζω

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/hɑːv/
Etymologie (Englisch)

In summary

From Middle English halven, helven, from Old English hilfan, helfan, *hielfan (“to halve, divide in two”), from Proto-West Germanic *halbijan, from Proto-Germanic *halbijaną (“to halve”), from Proto-Germanic *halbaz (“half”). Cognate with Middle Dutch halven (“to halve”), Middle High German halben, helben (“to halve”). Compare also West Frisian helte (“to halve”), Dutch halveren (“to halve”), German Low German halberen (“to halve”), German halbieren (“to halve”), Danish halvere (“to halve”), Swedish halvera (“to halve”).

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