Halve
verb
To divide or separate into two equal or nearly equal parts.
The recipe serves four so you need to halve the ingredients if you're only cooking for two.
Often appears as...
- halve the amount
- halve the difference
verb
To reduce by half.
My weekly spending was halved when I started cooking at home instead of eating out.
Often appears as...
- halve the cost
- halve the price
verb
To divide or separate into two equal or nearly equal parts.
The recipe serves four so you need to halve the ingredients if you're only cooking for two.
Often appears as...
- halve the amount
- halve the difference
verb
To reduce by half.
My weekly spending was halved when I started cooking at home instead of eating out.
Often appears as...
- halve the cost
- halve the price
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Equal Parts
Use 'halve' when splitting something into two parts that are as equal as possible.
She halved the apple so each child got an equal piece.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Division
'Halve' often describes a physical action, like cutting or dividing objects.
To share the cake fairly, let's halve it.
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
Can be used figuratively to indicate reducing effort or responsibility.
By working together, we can halve the burden.
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Jeff Dean: AI isn't as...
But they're not a new idea. And the second is computational power. It actually takes a lot of computational power to make neural networks able to really sing, and in the last 15 years, we’ve been able to halve that, and that's partly what's enabled all this progress. But at the same time, I think we're doing several things wrong,
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Steve Howard: Let's go...
working right back down to the farm, and there you can halve the amount of water and halve the chemical inputs, the yields increase, and 60 percent of the costs of running many of these farms with farmers with low incomes can be chemical imports. Yields increase, and you halve the input costs.
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Where good ideas come...
is that we know by getting modern neonatal incubators into any context, if we can keep premature babies warm, basically -- it's very simple -- we can halve infant mortality rates in those environments. So the technology is there. These are standard in all the industrialized worlds.
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Jamie Drummond: Let's...
called the Millennium Development Goals. Now, I'm sure you all keep a copy of the goals under your pillow, or by the bedside table, but just in case you don't, and your memory needs some jogging, the deal agreed then goes like developing countries promised to at least halve
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How We Can Make the...
coming out of the UN. But please, I invite you to suspend your disbelief for just a moment. Because back in 2001, the UN agreed another set of goals, the Millennium Development Goals. And the flagship target there was to halve the proportion of people
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The four fish we're...
So that is a potential. And if we were to go down that route what I would say is, instead of paying a few bucks a pound -- or a few bucks a ton, really -- and making it into aquafeed, could we halve the catch and double the price for the fishermen
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Alok Sharma: Why COP26...
That’s right, halve. That is a huge undertaking. But, you know, I’m hopeful because climate is now mainstream and that is turning the global economy green. Increasingly, the Swampies of the world, they’re not protesting in trees and tunnels,
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How not to be ignorant...
Did it almost double, did it remain more or less the same, or did it halve? A, B or C? Now, answers. You see, deaths from natural disasters in the world, you can see it from this graph here,
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Phil Borges: Documenting...
So that in one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity. He went on to say that every two weeks, an elder goes to the grave carrying the last spoken word of that culture.
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Thomas Heatherwick:...
We actually had to halve its speed, because everyone was too scared when we first did it. So that's it speeded up.
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Jeff Dean: AI isn't as...
But they're not a new idea. And the second is computational power. It actually takes a lot of computational power to make neural networks able to really sing, and in the last 15 years, we’ve been able to halve that, and that's partly what's enabled all this progress. But at the same time, I think we're doing several things wrong,
Video examples
Steve Howard: Let's go...
working right back down to the farm, and there you can halve the amount of water and halve the chemical inputs, the yields increase, and 60 percent of the costs of running many of these farms with farmers with low incomes can be chemical imports. Yields increase, and you halve the input costs.
Video examples
Where good ideas come...
is that we know by getting modern neonatal incubators into any context, if we can keep premature babies warm, basically -- it's very simple -- we can halve infant mortality rates in those environments. So the technology is there. These are standard in all the industrialized worlds.
Video examples
Jamie Drummond: Let's...
called the Millennium Development Goals. Now, I'm sure you all keep a copy of the goals under your pillow, or by the bedside table, but just in case you don't, and your memory needs some jogging, the deal agreed then goes like developing countries promised to at least halve
Video examples
How We Can Make the...
coming out of the UN. But please, I invite you to suspend your disbelief for just a moment. Because back in 2001, the UN agreed another set of goals, the Millennium Development Goals. And the flagship target there was to halve the proportion of people
Video examples
The four fish we're...
So that is a potential. And if we were to go down that route what I would say is, instead of paying a few bucks a pound -- or a few bucks a ton, really -- and making it into aquafeed, could we halve the catch and double the price for the fishermen
Video examples
Alok Sharma: Why COP26...
That’s right, halve. That is a huge undertaking. But, you know, I’m hopeful because climate is now mainstream and that is turning the global economy green. Increasingly, the Swampies of the world, they’re not protesting in trees and tunnels,
Video examples
How not to be ignorant...
Did it almost double, did it remain more or less the same, or did it halve? A, B or C? Now, answers. You see, deaths from natural disasters in the world, you can see it from this graph here,
Video examples
Phil Borges: Documenting...
So that in one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity. He went on to say that every two weeks, an elder goes to the grave carrying the last spoken word of that culture.
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Thomas Heatherwick:...
We actually had to halve its speed, because everyone was too scared when we first did it. So that's it speeded up.
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William Hague
British Politician
I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels.
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Michael Greger
American Author
Harvard University researchers found that women at high risk of heart disease who had a tablespoon of peanut butter five or more days a week appeared to nearly halve their risk of suffering a heart attack compared with women who ate one serving or less per week.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
German Philosopher
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
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Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
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William Hague
British Politician
I'm going to reduce the size of the Cabinet, cut the number of ministers, reduce the size of the House of Commons, campaign for a European Parliament with 100 fewer members, halve the number of political advisers, and abolish a huge swathe of Labour's regional bureaucracies and agencies and their offices in Brussels.
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Michael Greger
American Author
Harvard University researchers found that women at high risk of heart disease who had a tablespoon of peanut butter five or more days a week appeared to nearly halve their risk of suffering a heart attack compared with women who ate one serving or less per week.
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Arthur Schopenhauer
German Philosopher
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
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Stephen Hawking
English Physicist
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.
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