halve

See also hälve

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /hɑːv/, X-SAMPA: /hA:v/
• Rhymes: -ɑːv
• (US) enPR: hăv, IPA: /hæv/, X-SAMPA: /h{v/
• Rhymes: -æv
• Homophone: have (some accents)

Verb

halve (third-person singular simple present halves, present participle halving, simple past and past participle halved)

1. (transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.
2. (transitive) To divide into two halves.
3. (transitive) To make up half of.
   • M. Arnold

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

4. (architecture, transitive) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.

Translations

to reduce to half of original

• Dutch: halveren
• Finnish: puolittaa (fi)
• German: halbieren (de)

• Hungarian: elfelez (hu)
• Italian: dimezzare (it)
• Swedish: halvera (sv)

to divide

• Czech: půlit (cs), rozpůlit (cs)
• Dutch: halveren
• Finnish: puolittaa (fi)
• French: diviser en deux (fr)
• German: halbieren (de)

• Hungarian: felez (hu), kettéoszt (hu), félbevág (hu)
• Italian: dimezzare (it)
• Latin: dimidio (la)
• Swedish: halvera (sv)

Anagrams

• Havel

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Danish

Adjective

halve

1. definite of halv
2. plural of halv

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɦɑl.və/

Adjective

halve

1. the inflected form^FAQ of half