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halfway

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Noun, Adjective, Adverb
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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective halfway has 3 senses

Adverbial halfway has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

halfwayadv. 
     In the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded.  [1913 Webster]
    "Temples proud to meet their gods halfway."  [1913 Webster]
halfwaya. 
  •  Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway; as, at the halfway mark.  [1913 Webster]
  •  partial.  [WordNet 1.5]
  •  including only half or a portion; incomplete; as, halfway measures.  [WordNet 1.5]
Halfway covenant, a practice among the Congregational churches of New England, between 1657 and 1662, of permitting baptized persons of moral life and orthodox faith to enjoy all the privileges of church membership, save the partaking of the Lord's Supper. They were also allowed to present their children for baptism.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

halfway, adv. & adj.
--adv.
1 at a point equidistant between two others (we were halfway to Rome).
2 US to some extent; more or less (is halfway decent).
--adj. situated halfway (reached a halfway point).

Idiom
halfway house
1 a compromise.
2 the halfway point in a progression.
3 a centre for rehabilitating ex-prisoners, mental patients, or others unused to normal life.
4 an inn midway between two towns. halfway line a line midway between the ends of a pitch, esp. in football.

THESAURUS

halfway

amidships, average, betwixt and between, center, centermost, central, core, equatorial, equidistant, half, half-and-half, in medias res, in the mean, in the middle, interior, intermediary, intermediate, mean, medial, medially, median, mediocre, mediterranean, medium, mediumly, mesial, mezzo, mezzo-mezzo, mid, middle, middlemost, middling, midland, midmost, midships, midway, nuclear, one-and-a-half, part, partial, partly

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halfway

Smallness

N smallness, littleness, tenuity, paucity, fewness, meanness, insignificance (unimportance), mediocrity, moderation, small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum, vanishing point, material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace, minutiae, details, look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow, spark, scintilla, gleam, touch, cast, grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture, inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive, snip, snippet, snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag, chip, chipping, shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair, nutshell, thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful, fragment, fraction, drop in the ocean, animalcule, trifle, mere nothing, next to nothing, hardly anything, just enough to swear by, the shadow of a shade, finiteness, finite quantity, small, little, diminutive, minute, fine, inconsiderable, paltry, faint, slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited, meager, sparing, few, low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes, below par, under par, below the mark, at a low ebb, halfway, moderate, modest, tender, subtle, inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small, atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare, near run, dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent, to a small extent, on a small scale, a little bit, a wee bit, slightly, imperceptibly, miserably, wretchedly, insufficiently, imperfectly, faintly, passably, pretty well, well enough, partially, in part, in a certain degree, to a certain degree, to a certain extent, comparatively, some, rather in some degree, in some measure, something, somewhat, simply, only, purely, merely, at least, at the least, at most, at the most, ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree, thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak, almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but, near upon, close upon, peu s'en faut, near the mark, within an ace of, within an inch of, on the brink of, scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than, about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say, be the same, be little more or less, no ways, no way, no wise, not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow, in no wise, in no respect, by no means, by no manner of means, on no account, at no hand, dare pondus idonea fumo, magno conatu magnas nugas, small sands the mountain, moments make the year.

Middle

N middle, midst, mediety, mean, medium, middle term, center &c, mid-course, mezzo termine, juste milieu, halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos, nucleus, nucleolus, equidistance, bisection, half distance, equator, diaphragm, midriff, intermediate, middle, medial, mesial, mean, mid, median, average, middlemost, midmost, mediate, intermediate, equidistant, central, mediterranean, equatorial, homocentric, in the middle, midway, halfway, midships, amidships, in medias res.

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