halve

Oznaczający (Angielski)

  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.

Koncepcje

przepoławiać

połowić

Synonimy

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

Tłumaczenia

diviser en deux

διχάζω

ridurre della metà

couper en deux

διχοτομώ

Wymawiane jako (IPA)
/hɑːv/
Etymologia (Angielski)

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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