Associations to the word «Halve»

Wiktionary

HALVE, verb. (transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.
HALVE, verb. (transitive) To divide into two halves.
HALVE, verb. (transitive) To make up half of.
HALVE, verb. (architecture) (transitive) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
HALVE, verb. (golf) (transitive) In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.

Dictionary definition

HALVE, verb. Divide by two; divide into halves; "Halve the cake".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats