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HALFWAY
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Irregular inflected form: halfways
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Equally distant from the extremes
Synonyms:
center; halfway; middle; midway
Classified under:
Similar:
central (in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Including only half or a portion
Example:
halfway measures
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Similar:
fractional (constituting or comprising a part or fraction of a possible whole or entirety)
Sense 3
Meaning:
At a point midway between two extremes
Example:
at the halfway mark
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
intermediate (lying between two extremes in time or space or state)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
At half the distance; at the middle
Example:
he was halfway down the ladder when he fell
Synonyms:
halfway; midway
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Context examples:
The man had brought his gun halfway to his shoulder before he realized.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law, and he met the introduction halfway.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Many thousands of these Martian features, collectively called "recurring slope lineae" or RSL, have been identified in more than 50 rocky-slope areas, from the equator to about halfway to the poles.
(Recurring Martian Streaks: Flowing Sand, Not Water?, NASA)
More than halfway across the universe, an enormous blue star nicknamed Icarus is the farthest individual star ever seen.
(Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen, NASA)
The Earth is situated halfway between the middle of the sun's habitable zone and its inner boundary.
(Potentially Habitable 'Super-Earths' Found Orbiting around Sun's near Neighbor, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The ordinal direction halfway between west and north on a compass.
(Northwest, NCI Thesaurus)
The four compass directions: northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest, located halfway between the cardinal directions.
(Ordinal Direction, NCI Thesaurus)
Night was far advanced when I came to the halfway resting-place and seated myself beside the fountain.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
This is because in many rooms, windows are positioned halfway up the wall, and when they are opened, the warm air near the ceiling can’t easily escape.
(Wind more effective than cold air at cooling rooms naturally, University of Cambridge)
Halfway down I slipped, but, by the blessing of God, I landed, torn and bleeding, upon the path.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
