HALVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does halve mean? 

• HALVE (verb)
  The verb HALVE has 1 sense:

1. divide by two; divide into halves

  Familiarity information: HALVE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HALVE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they halve    ... he / she / it halves   
Past simple: halved   
Past participle: halved   
-ing form: halving   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Divide by two; divide into halves

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Context example:

Halve the cake

Hypernyms (to "halve" is one way to...):

divide; fraction (perform a division)

Domain category:

arithmetic (the branch of pure mathematics dealing with the theory of numerical calculations)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

It is divided into two hemispheres, or halves, called the cerebral hemispheres.

(Cerebrum, NCI Dictionary)

They found that using any NSAID nearly halved the effect of particulate matter on lung function, with the association consistent across all four weekly air pollution measurements.

(Aspirin Could Cut Air Pollution Harms, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Their models showed that, if this figure could be halved, it would reduce the environmental impact of food production by 16%.

(Model shows pathway to feeding the world, SciDev.Net)

Marianne could never love by halves; and her whole heart became, in time, as much devoted to her husband, as it had once been to Willoughby.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

In glycolysis, the six-carbon sugar glucose is oxidized and split in two halves, to create two molecules of pyruvate (3 carbons each) from each molecule of glucose.

(Glycolysis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

It is divided by a musculomembranous septum into two halves — right or venous and left or arterial — each of which consists of a receiving chamber (atrium) and an ejecting chamber (ventricle).

(Heart, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Let us do nothing by halves.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

An anchoring junction of the cell to a non-cellular substrate, similar in morphology to halves of DESMOSOMES.

(Hemidesmosome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The two halves of the mandible meet at your chin.

(Jaw Injuries and Disorders, NIH)