"half-time" meaning in English

See half-time in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

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  1. Pertaining to or characterized by half the usual duration. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-half-time-en-adj-7r3D-O7P

Adverb

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Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} half-time (not comparable)
  1. In a half time manner. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Sports, Time Synonyms: halftime, half time
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Noun

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  1. (sports) The interval between the two halves of a sports match. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Sports Translations (sports: interval between halves): rustyd (Afrikaans), тайм (tajm) [masculine] (Belarusian), полувре́ме (poluvréme) [neuter] (Bulgarian), mitja part [feminine] (Catalan), 半場 /半场 (bàncháng) (Chinese Mandarin), rust [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), tauko (Finnish), väliaika (Finnish), puoliaika (Finnish), half-time [masculine] (French), mi-temps [feminine] (French), Halbzeitpause [feminine] (German), Pause [feminine] (German), félidő (Hungarian), hálfleikur [masculine] (Icelandic), intervallo [masculine] (Italian), ハーフタイム (hāfutaimu) (Japanese), полувреме (poluvreme) [neuter] (Macedonian), weheruatanga (Maori), pause [masculine] (Norwegian), meio-tempo [masculine] (Portuguese), pauză [feminine] (Romanian), тайм (tajm) [masculine] (Russian), polčas [masculine] (Slovak), entretiempo [masculine] (Spanish), descanso [masculine] (Spanish), halvtid [common-gender] (Swedish), тайм (tajm) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-half-time-en-noun--tK-SbEt Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports Disambiguation of 'sports: interval between halves': 56 8 8 28
  2. (sometimes attributive) Half or approximately half the number of hours usually worked in a specified period. Tags: attributive, countable, sometimes, uncountable
    Sense id: en-half-time-en-noun-5YhrKE7q
  3. (music) A tempo in which the rhythm is emphasized so that it seems to have half as many metric divisions (e.g. emphasizing the start of every other bar rather than every bar). Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Music
    Sense id: en-half-time-en-noun-VF0~6apG Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
  4. (physics) The time taken for a physical quantity to halve the difference between its present value and its final value. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Physics, Time Translations (time to halve the difference between present value and final value): 半衰期 (bànshuāiqī) (Chinese Mandarin), puoliintumisaika (Finnish), полови́на вре́мени (polovína vrémeni) [feminine] (Russian), polčas [masculine] (Slovak)
    Sense id: en-half-time-en-noun-X0YVTrRi Disambiguation of Time: 5 43 9 2 2 39 Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics Disambiguation of 'time to halve the difference between present value and final value': 16 8 5 71
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: half-timer Coordinate_terms: double time, full time, part time, quarter time, triple time

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.