halve
Split in two
To halve is to divide into two equal parts: Halve the recipe if you're cooking for two.
It also means to reduce by half: The new process halved production time.
In golf, to halve a hole is to tie it with your opponent.
The word rhymes with "have" in American English, with "carve" in British.
Divide into two equal portions
- splitSeparation into parts
- severCut apart completely
- cleaveSplit or adhere
- partitionBarrier separating spaces
dichotomize · bifurcate · segment · dissect · slice · carve · sunder · rend
One of two parts
- fifty percentHalf of something
- hemisphereHalf of a ball
- semicircleHalf a ring
- fractionPart divided by whole
bisect
Divide into two equal portions
partition · dichotomize · bifurcate · segment · dissect · slice · carve · sunder · rend · subdivide
moiety
One of two parts
- fifty percentHalf of something
- hemisphereHalf of a ball
- semicircleHalf a ring
split evenly
decrease
Become or make smaller
shrink · curtail · pare · slash · trim · scale down · economize · cut back · streamline · moderate
- portioningportion, divide, share, distribute, allocate
- cuttingslicing, slice, chopping, dice, dicing
- divisiondivision, divide, divided, dividing, split
- Reduceshrink, diminish, decrease, lessen, reduce
- separationseparate, sieving, straining, divide, filtration
- Match Playmatch play, dormie, concession, gimme, all square
- half an hourSixty minutes halved
- in halfInto two equal portions
- half fullContaining fifty percent capacity
- half priceReduced by half
- second halfLater of two parts
- half hourThirty-minute span
half, halfway, behalf, halved, halves, halfhearted, halving, halftime, halftone