What's the difference between halves and haves?

Halves


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Half
  • (n.) pl. of Half.

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.

Haves


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In Fort McMurray, the town the tar sands built, the downturn created a society of haves and have-nots, said local social service organisations.
  • (2) A resurvey conducted 8 years later in the Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli revealed the persistence of filariasis amongst its residents.
  • (3) The Great Divide: Second Thoughts on the American Dream (1988) was Terkel ill-at-ease, in a book about rifts across society, not just between "haves, have somewhats and have-nots", but race and religion.
  • (4) Having thus polarised the country between haves and have-nots, the moderate liberals committed their fourth error.
  • (5) Schneider pointed out that even within countries like the US, there will be IoT-haves and have-nots.
  • (6) He says: "I believed from a very young age that all race warfare is essentially class warfare, and that it's in the better interests of the haves to have the have-nots fighting among themselves.
  • (7) "Either opt for a one-hit wonder – something that you wouldn't normally wear that is perfect for an event like a wedding, or aim for classic must-haves such as a great coat that will work season after season."
  • (8) For these settlements, this is a strike against the state and the haves, not just a union matter.
  • (9) Bercow says the commission will need to ask "searching questions about the digital divide, the haves and have-nots of the internet and the smartphone, not least because of the accumulating evidence that the Berlin Wall which undoubtedly exists in this terrain is no longer about age but relates to affluence and the lack of it".
  • (10) Sit and contemplate the world-class luxury of the haves; a short distance across the city are the have-nots.
  • (11) It's undeniable that there still exists a somewhat rigid social class system, with very little inter-generational social mobility and, almost inevitably, a widening of the gap between rich and poor, the haves and have-not's.
  • (12) What has become clear in the 10 years since Alma-Ata is the global split between the health of the "haves" and the "have nots".
  • (13) How has hegemony of the haves in our politics, at the expense and exclusion of the have-nots, fostered our democratic values?
  • (14) Cheshire said: “By 2030, the divide between housing haves at the top and the have-nots at the bottom will be even wider than it is now.
  • (15) The number of properties in Britain worth £1m or more is set to more than triple by 2030, widening the gap between the housing haves and have-nots, according to a report.
  • (16) Professor Robert Watson, the director of the IAASTD secretariat and the chief scientist at Defra, said: "Business as usual would mean more environmental degradation and the earth's haves and have-nots splitting further apart.
  • (17) Playing them on BBC One will massively increase the reach of these programmes for young audiences and guarantee that we do not risk creating a 'haves and have nots', a digital divide when it comes to enjoying what we are making for the public.
  • (18) Responding to a question after giving a speech on the economy, Clegg said he wasn't going to comment on leaks – Gove's letter proposing the idea – but joked about "haves and have-yachts".
  • (19) As a result, São Paulo earned the reputation of being one of the world’s most unequal cities, divided between the haves of the centre and the have-nots of the periphery.
  • (20) "Playing them on BBC1 will massively increase the reach of these programmes for young audiences and guarantee that we do not risk creating a 'haves and have nots', a digital divide when it comes to enjoying what we are making for the public."

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