 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
halve
verb: divide by two; divide into halves; "Halve the cake"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Halve \Hal"ve\ (h[aum]l"ve), noun
A half. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Halve \Halve\ (h[aum]v), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Halved}
(h[aum]vd); 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.
So far apart their lives are thrown
From the twin soul that halves their own. --M.
Arnold.
2. (Arch.) To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away
each for half its thickness at the joining place, and
fitting together.
3. Of a hole, match, etc., to reach or play in the same
number of strokes as an opponent.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "halve":
amputate, apportion, ax, be partners in, bifurcate, bisect, branch,
butcher, by two, carve, chop, cleave, cooperate, cut, cut away,
cut in two, cut off, dichotomize, dimidiate, dissever, divide,
divide with, divvy up with, excise, fission, fissure, fork, gash,
go even stephen, go fifty-fifty, go halvers, go halves, go shares,
hack, hew, in half, incise, jigsaw, lance, pare, prune, ramify,
rend, rive, saw, scissor, sever, share, share in, slash, slice,
slit, snip, split, split in two, split the difference, subdivide,
sunder, tear, transect, whittle
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