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FIRST HALF
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The first of two halves of play
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("first half" is a kind of...):
half (one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval)
Context examples:
A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(2;11)(q31;p15) which fuses the first half of the NUP98 gene with the 3' part of the HOXD11 gene.
(NUP98/HOXD11 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(10;11)(q25;p15) which fuses the first half of the NUP98 gene to the ADD3 gene.
(NUP98/ADD3 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(7;11)(p15;p15) which fuses the first half of the NUP98 gene to the 3' portion of the HOXA9 gene.
(NUP98/HOXA9 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
According to the WHO, the number of cases of measles globally in the first half of this year exceeded those of any other whole year since 2006.
(Samoan government temporarily shuts down for nationwide measles vaccination drive, Wikinews)
Charles was to return to Lyme the same afternoon, and his father had at first half a mind to go with him, but the ladies could not consent.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
They were far from being an irritable race; far from any quickness in catching, or bitterness in resenting, affronts: but here, when the whole was unfolded, was an insult not to be overlooked, nor, for the first half hour, to be easily pardoned.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
In a sister it is bad enough, but in a wife!—how I have blushed over the pages of her writing!—and I believe I may say that since the first half year of our foolish—business—this is the only letter I ever received from her, of which the substance made me any amends for the defect of the style.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The first half was perfectly easy, but from there upwards it became continually steeper until, for the last fifty feet, we were literally clinging with our fingers and toes to tiny ledges and crevices in the rock.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When Mars moves to Aquarius on March 30, you can look forward to a vibrant social life in April and the first half of May.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Anne gave her credit, indeed, for feelings of great consideration towards herself, in all that related to Kellynch, and it pleased her: especially, as she had satisfied herself in the very first half minute, in the instant even of introduction, that there was not the smallest symptom of any knowledge or suspicion on Mrs Croft's side, to give a bias of any sort.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
