(v. t.) To divide into two equal parts; as, to halve an apple; to be or form half of.
(v. t.) To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
Example Sentences:
(1) This activity scheme uses as its base, dose potency measured as TD50, the chronic dose rate that actuarially halves the adjusted percentage of tumor-free animals at the end of the study (Gold et al., Environ.
(2) The Lords will vote on three key amendments: • To exclude child benefit from the cap calculation (this would roughly halve the number of households affected).
(3) The world has also met the target of halving the proportion of people without access to improved sources of water , and it has achieved parity in primary education between girls and boys .
(4) The two halves of the glans are brought to the midline, thus covering the glanular urethra, and producing a normal appearing glans.
(5) Of particular interest was the establishment of the linkage between the two monomeric halves of the molecule and determination of the location of the phenolic hydroxyls.
(6) Citing figures that predicted already falling costs of renewables and battery storage would halve again in the next five years, Shorten predicts “consumers not governments” would drive the energy change.
(7) If adopted, the proposals would halve the numbers of households defined as being in fuel poverty.
(8) With the mobilization of the two halves of the face it is possible to approximate the orbits, simultaneously elongating the center of the face and normalizing the maxillary alveolar ridge.
(9) Further binding of one molecule of aldolase for each strand of 280 actin monomers halves the apparent viscosity of the alfa-actinin-F-actin system without any desorption of alfa-actinin.
(10) The procedure involves bisection of single-cell eggs in a medium containing cytochalasin; fusion of egg halves with single blastomeres, induced using Sendai virus or an electrofusion apparatus; and embedding in agar, followed by culture of the reconstituted embryos in the ligated oviducts of ewes in dioestrus.
(11) However the NCPO did prosecute 56 people for the crime of criticising the monarch, with one man sentenced to 60 years – which was later halved – for Facebook posts.
(12) An unbelievably convenient boost to demand in this country – and indeed to all economies that are major importers of oil – has come in the nick of electoral time from the halving of the world price of crude.
(13) When low- or high-frequency words were presented separately in distinct halves of a recognition-memory test, the relatively liberal response bias for high-frequency words was diminished.
(14) For example, a 2010 Cochrane review concluded that telehealth in heart failure reduced death rate by 34% but now – when we include several large negative trials – this figure is halved.
(15) HP exposed to 10 mg tissue eq of either bovine pineal fraction A1 or bovine pineal fraction A3 released 88% and 63%, respectively, less PRL than did their corresponding untreated control halves incubated in Krebs-Ringer Bicarbonate (KRB) medium.
(16) When optic fibres from NN, TT or VV eyes grew into inappropriate rostral, caudal or lateral tectal halves respectively, there was a projection deficit in the nasal and temporal or in the dorsal and ventral poles of the visual field.
(17) Detachment of the plasma membrane from glutaraldehyde-fixed cells exposed the cytoplasmic surface of the acrosome to the lectin markers; freeze-fractured halves of the acrosomal membrane were marked by "fracture-label" (Aguas, A. P., and P. Pinto da Silva, 1983, J.
(18) In another patient, the dose of insulin was halved, and his graft function was classified as partial.
(19) As current aid levels stand, the first Millennium Development Goal to halve the number of people who suffer from hunger would "slip through its [DfID's] fingers and further out of reach", says the report, which opens with a message from Boyzone singer Ronan Keating, a UN FAO goodwill ambassador.
(20) Most interneurones have branches only in one half of the ganglion, but one interneurone has extensive and asymmetrical regions of branches in both halves of the ganglion (fig.
Halwe
Definition:
(n.) A saint.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mattingly, Liberman, Syrdal, and Halwes, (1971) claimed to demonstrate that subjects cannot classify nonspeech chirp and bleat continua, but that they can classify into three categories a syllable place continuum whose variation is physically identical to the nonspeech chirp and bleat continua.