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HALVE
halve
(verb) divide by two; divide into halves; “Halve the cake”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
halve (third-person singular simple present halves, present participle halving, simple past and past participle halved)
(transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.
(transitive) To divide into two halves.
(transitive) To make up half of.
(architecture, transitive) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
(golf, transitive) In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.
Synonyms
• (to divide into two halves): dichotomize, dimidiate; see also bisect
Anagrams
• Havel, Vahle
Source: Wiktionary
Hal"ve, n.
Definition: A half. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Halve, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Halved; p. pr. & vb. n. Halving.] Etym: [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.)
Definition: To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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HEEDLESS
(adjective) marked by or paying little heed or attention; “We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics”--Franklin D. Roosevelt; “heedless of danger”; “heedless of the child’s crying”
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