Found 2 hits - Term: halving, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
halve \halve\ haumv, v. t. imp. p. p. halved
haumvd; p. pr. vb. n. halving. from half.
1. to divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to
be or form half of.
1913 webster
so far apart their lives are thrown
from the twin soul that halves their own. --m.
arnold.
1913 webster
2. arch. to join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away
each for half its thickness at the joining place, and
fitting together.
1913 webster
3. of a hole, match, etc., to reach or play in the same
number of strokes as an opponent.
see also:
halved halving half
- [2] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
34 moby thesaurus words for "halving":
janus, ambiguity, ambivalence, bifidity, biformity, bifurcation,
bipartition, bisection, branching, by two, conjugation,
cutting in two, dichotomy, dimidiation, division, doubleness,
doublethink, doubling, dualism, duality, duplexity, duplication,
duplicity, equivocality, forking, in half, irony, pairing,
polarity, ramification, subdivision, twinning, two-facedness,
twoness
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