Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Midway between two points or conditions: a halfway sign on the trail.
- adj. Reaching or including only half or a portion; partial: halfway measures.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In the middle; at half the distance.
- Midway; equidistant from the extremes.
Wiktionary
- adv. Half of the way between two points; midway.
- adv. moderately; somewhat
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially.
- adj. Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway.
- adj. partial.
- adj. including only half or a portion; incomplete.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. at half the distance; at the middle
- adj. including only half or a portion
- adj. equally distant from the extremes
- adj. at a point midway between two extremes
Etymologies
- From Middle English halfwey, from Old English healfweg ("half-way"), equivalent to half- + way. Cognate with Dutch halfweg ("halfway"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Eric leaned against the row of lockers beside hers wearing an expression halfway between a leering grin and a snarl.”
“Ian looked again, then turned toward Alice with an expression halfway between skepticism and bemusement.”
“We need a word halfway between friend and acquaintance.”
“The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it's reached what it describes as the halfway point in draining the floodwaters in New Orleans.”
“The Secondary Objective is to try and keep my body in halfway decent shape.”
“Most begin halfway or fully at “Hurray!” and slope off jaggedly to “Blah.””
“Definitely, but I still get that nose & ear pain halfway into a feature.”
“WHY I thought I could put a book of hers down halfway is entirely beyond me.”
“He owned the part of Scott Pilgrim so much that I literally forgot his name halfway through the film.”
The Huffington Post: Bryan Young: Review: Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
“One can get halfway from the cover to the cartoon by simply emptying the man's word balloon.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘halfway’.
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
http://www.genenames.org/
tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
ways
some of all the ways - always -in every way
way off beam, third way, way of the pilgrim, four way stop, right of way, wrong of way, by the way, way-pane, way to go, way off broadway, way out west, under way and 100 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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hard to sense
somewhat, somewhere, elsewhere, whereby, likewise, spite, ever, along, otherwise, whatever, whichever, hitherto and 116 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Oregon towns that you'd find in the d...
boring, zigzag, rhododendron, halfway, bend, drain, beaver, alfalfa, cove, warren, wagontire, needy and 25 more...
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trufutant's Words
conundrum, nonsense, foolishness, swell, cacophony, grizzled, hoary, despot, bloke, ravenous, sot, quirt and 83 more...
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Tunie: Danny's All-Star Joint
by Rickie Lee Jones.
Downstairs at Danny's all-star joint
They got a jukebox that goes doyt-doyt
The vice is nice, he stays in the back all day
But when the nighttime...pocket, business, lawn, street, fun, rules, hep-scat, be-bop, chicken, matzoh, girdle, magazine and 38 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for halfway.
oroboros Depends on whether a tree falls in there without making a noise. ;oD Dec 29, 2007
mollusque Which is farther, going halfway into the woods or all the way in? Dec 28, 2007
sonofgroucho As in "I'll meet you halfway." Aug 25, 2007