How the other half lives

Definition

half /hɑ:f; US hæf/ n ( pl halves /hɑ:vz; US hævz/) ၁။ ထက္ဝက္။ တစ္ဝက္။ two and a half ounces/hours/ miles ❍ the mountainous half of the island ❍ Mum's broken the chocolate into halves—here's your half. ❍ John and Liz shared the prize money between them—John used his half to buy a word processor. ❍ The second half of the book is more exciting than the first. ❍ ALL 1 ၂။ အပိုင္း။ ပထမပိုင္း (သို႔) ဒုတိယပိုင္း။ No goals were scored in the first half. ၃။ ( Brit ) တစ္ဝက္ခလက္မွတ္။ ကေလး လက္မွတ္။ Two and two halves to the city centre, please. ၄။ = HALF-BACK: playing (at) left half. ၅။ ( infml esp Brit ) (အထူးသျဖင့္ ဘီယာ) ပိုင့္ဝက္။ Two halves of bitter, please. indef det ထက္ဝက္။ တစ္ဝက္။ တစ္ျခမ္း။ half the men. ❍ half an hour/ a half-hour (ie 30 minutes) ❍ half a pint/a half-pint ❍ half a dozen/ a half-dozen (ie 6) ❍ He has a half share in the firm. ❍ Half the fruit was bad. Compare ALL, BOTH ❍ ALL indef pron ထက္ဝက္။ Half of six is three. ❍ Half of the plums are rotten. ❍ Half of the money is mine. ❍ I only need half. ❍ Out of 36 children, half passed. adv ၁။ တစ္ဝက္တစ္ပ်က္။ The jug was half full. ၂။ တစ္ဝက္တစ္ပ်က္။ တစ္ပိုင္းတစ္စ။ half cooked. မက်က္ တက်က္။ half-closed eyes. မပြင့္တပြင့္။ I'm half inclined to agree. ❏ and a half [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပံုမွန္ထက္သာလြန္ေသာ။ That was a game and a half! ❏ at half-mast [ IDM ] (အလံ) တိုင္ဝက္တင္လ်က္။ Flags were (flown) at half-mast everywhere on the day of the hostage's funeral. ❏ break, chop, cut, tear, etc sth in half [ IDM ] ႏွစ္ပိုင္း ခ်ဳိးသည္၊ ႏွစ္ပိုင္းခုတ္ထစ္သည္ စသည္။ ထက္ပိုင္းပိုင္းသည္။ ထက္ျခမ္း ျခမ္းသည္။ ထက္ဝက္ ဝက္သည္။ I once saw a man tear a telephone directory in half. ❏ do nothing/ not do anything by halves [ IDM ] မစားရလွ်င္အလွ်င္း၊ စားရလွ်င္ဆီထမင္း ဆိုသကဲ့သို႔ လုပ္တတ္ သည္။ He's not a man who does things by halves—he either donates a huge sum or gives nothing. ❏ go half and half/ go halves (with sb) [ IDM ] တစ္ေယာက္တစ္ဝက္စီ မွ်ေဝခံသည္။ That was an expensive meal—let's go halves. ❏ half-and-half adj ထက္ဝက္စီ။ ညီတူညီမွ်။ ဆတူ။ ‘How do you like your coffee?’ ‘Half-and-half (ie Half coffee and half milk), please. ’ ❏ half as many, much etc again [ IDM ] ထက္ဝက္ ထပ္တိုးျခင္း။ ၅၀ % ထပ္တိုးျခင္း။ Spending on health is half as much again as it was in 1982. ❏ half-back (also half ) n (ေဘာလံုးပြဲ၊ ေဟာ္ကီ ကစားျခင္း စသည္တြင္) အလယ္တန္းလူ။ ❏ half-baked adj ( infml ) မက်က္တက်က္။ မနပ္တနပ္။ မေက်မညက္။ a half-baked idea. ❏ half board n [U] တစ္နပ္ႏႈန္း။ Compare FULL BOARD ❏ half-brother n အေဖတူအေမကြဲ ညီ၊ အစ္ကို၊ ေမာင္။ အေမတူအေဖကြဲ ညီ၊ အစ္ကို၊ ေမာင္။ ❏ half-caste (also half-breed) n, adj ( usu offensive ) ကျပား။ ❏ half-crown (also half a crown) n (in Britain before 1971) ကေရာင္းဝက္။ ၂ သွ်ီလင္ခြဲ။ ❏ half day n ေန႔ဝက္ (အထူးသျဖင့္ မြန္းလြဲပိုင္း တစ္ခ်ိန္လံုး)။ ❏ half dollar n ေဒၚလာဝက္။ ဆင့္ငါးဆယ္။ ❏ half-hearted adj စိတ္မပါ့တပါ။ ဟက္ဟက္ပက္ပက္မရိွ ေသာ။ make a half-hearted attempt at conversation. ❏ half-heartedly adv စိတ္မပါ့တပါ။ ❏ half-hour (also half an hour ) n နာရီဝက္။ မိနစ္သံုးဆယ္။ He should arrive within the next half-hour. ❏ half-hourly adj, adv နာရီဝက္တိုင္း။ နာရီဝက္တစ္ခါ။ a half-hourly news bulletin ❍ The buses run half-hourly. ❏ half-life n သက္တမ္းဝက္။ ❏ half -light n [sing] မလင္းတလင္း။ in the half-light of dawn. ❏ half a minute, second, tick, etc [ IDM ] ( infml ) ခဏေလး။ တစ္ေအာင့္ေလး။ I'll be ready in half a minute. ❏ half moon n ၁။ လျခမ္း။ လဝက္။ ၂။ လဝက္ (အခ်ိန္)။ ၃။ လျခမ္းပံု။ လဝက္ပံု။ အၯစႏၵက။ ❏ half-note n ( US ) (ဂီတ) သံဝက္သေကၤတ။ = MINIM ❏ the half of it [ IDM ] ( infml ) (usu in negative sentences) အေရးအႀကီးဆံုးအပိုင္း။ You don't know the half of it. ❏ half one, two,etc [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) = HALF PAST ONE, TWO, etc ❏ half past one, two, etc [ IDM ] (…နာရီႏွင့္) မိနစ္ ၃၀။ (…နာရီ)ခြဲ။ ❏ half-price adv ထက္ဝက္ေဈး။ ထက္ဝက္ႏႈန္း။ တစ္ဝက္ခ။ Children are (admitted) half-price. ❏ half -sister n အေဖတူအေမကြဲညီမ၊ အစ္မ၊ ႏွမ။ အေမတူ အေဖကြဲညီမ၊ အစ္မ၊ ႏွမ။ ❏ half -term n (in Britain) ႏွစ္ဝက္ ေက်ာင္းပိတ္ရက္။ ❏ half-timbered adj အုတ္ညႇပ္။ ❏ half-time n [U] (အားကစားခ်ိန္ပထမပိုင္းအၿပီး) အားလပ္ ခ်ိန္။ The score at half time was 2-2. ❍ the half-time score. ❏ half-tone n ( US ) = SEMITONE ❏ half-truth n ( usu derog ) မမွန္တစ္ဝက္မွန္တစ္ဝက္။ The newspaper reports are a mixture of gossip, lies and half-truths. ❏ half-yearly adj, adv ၆ - လ တစ္ႀကိမ္။ ေျခာက္လပတ္။ ႏွစ္ဝက္။ meetings held at half-yearly intervals ❍ Royalty statements are sent out half-yearly. ❏ how the other half lives [ IDM ] မိမိႏွင့္ ဆန္႔က်င္ဘက္ ျဖစ္ေသာလူ႕အလႊာတြင္ ေနမႈထိုင္မႈ။ ။ He's rich and arrogant—he couldn't care less how the other half lives. ❏ not half [ IDM ] ( sl ) ကမ္းကုန္ေအာင္။ ပယ္ပယ္နယ္နယ္။ အရမ္း။ He didn't half swear (ie He swore violently). ❍ ‘Was she annoyed?’ ‘Not half!’ ( ie She was extremely annoyed. ) ❏ not half as [ IDM ] ေျခဖ်ားေတာင္မမီ။ Her new boyfriend isn't half as good-looking (as her last one).

Examples

1. The rebel army now controls over half the country.
2. The students spend half their time on practical work.
3. [half of] : Prices rose by over 15% during the second half of 1988.
4. Would anyone like the other half of my pizza?
5. When we interviewed employees
6. nearly half of them complained of stress.
7. [divide/cut/split etc something in half] : Peel the potatoes and cut them in half.
8. One and a half million people have been driven from their homes.
9. Jasmine started school when she was four and a half.
10. [half an hour/a mile etc] : We had to wait half an hour for a bus.
11. [half hour/mile etc] : She walked the half mile from Fleet Street back to her office.
12. [half a dozen/a half dozen] : Half a dozen eggs
13. [half something (and) half something] : The fabric is half nylon
14. half cotton.
15. Marie is half Vietnamese
16. half French (=one of her parents is from Vietnam
17. the other is from France).
18. The fearsome creature was half man and half beast.
19. [half and half] : There used to be a lot more men than women in the medical school
20. but now it’s about half and half.
21. Through the half open door I could hear the sound of Alan’s voice.
22. The rocks were half under water.
23. I only half understood the instructions.
24. [half-empty/half-full] : A half-empty milk bottle
25. Your mother’s been going half crazy worrying about you.
26. I seem to spend half my life cleaning up after those kids.
27. Neither team scored in the first half.
28. A pint of lager and a half of Guinness
29. please.
30. Two and two halves to London Bridge
31. please.