Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The moon when only half its disk is illuminated.
- n. Something, such as the lunula of a fingernail, that is shaped like a crescent.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated.
- n. Something in the shape of a half-moon, or, loosely, of a crescent.
- n. In fortification, an outwork composed of two faces forming a salient angle whose gorge is in the form of crescent or a half-moon.
- n. In mining, a scaffold in a shaft, having a plan of nearly the shape of a half-moon. Such a construction is of a temporary character, and intended to afford a place where the men may stand while making repairs in the shaft.
[Eng.] - n. A species of rudder-fish, Medialuna californiensis, found on the coast of southern California.
Wiktionary
- n. the moon, in its first or last quarter, when only half the face is illuminated
- n. anything shaped like a crescent, especially the base of a fingernail
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The moon at the quarters, when half its disk appears illuminated.
- n. The shape of a half-moon; a crescent.
- n. (Fort.) An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a
ravelin . - n. (Zoöl.) A marine, sparoid, food fish of California (Cæsiosoma Californiense). The body is ovate, blackish above, blue or gray below. Called also
medialuna .
WordNet 3.0
- n. the time at which the Moon is at first or last quarter when half its face is illuminated
- n. the crescent-shaped area at the base of the human fingernail
Etymologies
- half- + moon (Wiktionary)
Examples
“moon is 50 percent illuminated at its First or Last Quarter phase; also sometimes called the "half-moon", that it would be shining only half as bright as a full moon.”
“Cal eyed the window through his half-moon reading glasses.”
“No need to see the faded green wallpaper, the tired carpet, the half-moon telephone table, and the coat-stand in the hallway.”
“He shows me what is inside the bowl—a tiny scorpion curled into a half-moon.”
“The spider is clamped by a sheet of wood with a half-moon aperture for its abdomen.”
“In the crowd watching the competition, held mid-way between one end of this half-moon beach at Melaque and the other end at Barra de Navidad, are many of the hundreds of tourists who come here for the sun, sand and (some of them) the surf.”
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“As we passed the point the whole cove burst upon our view, a half-moon of white sandy beach upon which broke a huge surf, and which was covered with myriads of seals.”
“A bright half-moon clung to the side of the main house like something unfinished, and Neal could see the fever trees that lined the drive, thick with roosting vultures, bald-headed and silent, and the rolling tilt of the hills that clustered on the horizon and then dropped off into Ngorongoro.”
“Some looked like toy crusader castles, with cylindrical turrets and half-moon windows.”
“The sky darkened and the stars came out and a half-moon appeared.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘half-moon’.
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shapes
words for shape
( randomness, visual. descriptive )triangular, conical, round, broad, congruous, hexagonal, globular, curved, oval, rectangular, parallel, crumpled and 142 more...
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Mother-of-All-Saints
Some alternatives to calling it your 'stuff'.
Mount of Venus, nameless, name-it-not, omnibus, the novelty, niche, nest, moss-rose, peach, old-ding, old woman, the nonsuch and 115 more...
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hyphenated halfs
are a lot of these halfs half-thought-out?
half-cocked, half-breed, half-bath, half-assed, half-a-buck, half-baked, half-dead, half-asleep, half-back, half-clothed, half-done, half-dozen and 74 more...
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Mike Doughty/Soul Coughing
Words and phrases from his lyrics.
incumbent, jawgrind, boop shuh-nai, mopstyle, boombox moocher, Buddha-plump van, slingbacked, half-moon, maquereau, aphasia, barter yardie, boom-bap and 30 more...
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adamantine, almond, alpenglow, amaranth, amaranthine, amaretto, amarelle, amethyst, anacampserote, ampersand, andromeda, anemone and 153 more...
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To the Moon
lunar, half-moon, wane, eclipse, moonlight, mooned, moonshine, lunation, moonlike, mooning, moons, gibbous and 53 more...
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