halve

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To reduce to half the original amount.

   “These show that since 1946 the fatality rate in train and movement accidents combined has been halved, [...].”

2. fiil To divide into two halves.
3. fiil To make up half of.

   “So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own.”

4. fiil To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
5. fiil In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.

   “I, of course, had no difficulty in doing likewise, and we halved the hole; but the awkward fact remained that I must now gain every hole to win the match, for my opponent's score was "nine up," and there only remained ten holes to play.”