halve

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɑːv/
• Rhymes: -ɑːv
• (US) enPR: hăv, IPA^(key): /hæv/
• Rhymes: -æv
• Homophone: have (some accents)

halve (third-person singular simple present halves, present participle halving, simple past and past participle halved)

1. (transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.
2. (transitive) To divide into two halves.
3. (transitive) To make up half of.
   • M. Arnold

     So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own.

4. (architecture, transitive) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
5. (golf, transitive) In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.

   to halve a hole or a match

   • 2005, Elliott, Bill, The Golf Bag Buddy: The Essential On-Course Reference, page 67:

     All that counts is whether you won, lost, or halved the match.

• (to divide into two halves): dichotomize, dimidiate; see also Thesaurus:bisect

• Havel, Vahle

halve

1. plural and definite singular attributive of halv

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦɑl.və/

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halve

1. Inflected form of half

From Old English healf.

halve

1. half

From Old English helfe.

halve

1. Alternative form of helve

halve

1. definite singular of halv
2. plural of halv

From Old Norse halfa

halve f or m (definite singular halva or halven, indefinite plural halver, definite plural halvene)

1. (a) half

• halvdel
• halvpart

• “halve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

halve

1. definite singular of halv
2. plural of halv

From Old Norse halfa

halve f (definite singular halva, indefinite plural halver, definite plural halvene)

1. (a) half

• halvdel
• halvpart

• “halve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.