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half
Noun
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A half is 1/2 of a whole; 50%.
Sales were down from January to June but jumped in the second half of the year.
Half a year later, the baby was born.
A half minute after the game started, the rain began.
It took us an hour and a half to get the bike working again.
The city was about half the size of Vancouver.
More than half the money came from the government.
It's cost us three and a half thousand dollars.
We'll meet at half past two.
It's two and a half times as big as the old one.
The coach changed the goal keeper at half time.
The same car might cost about half as much again as in Britain.
These cookies are not half as good as the ones your mum makes.
The apples are half price today.
When I phoned, he was still half asleep.
The glass was half full.
Since the early 1980s the army's strength and budget have been cut in half .
The car was half on the road when it was hit.
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A half is one part of a game that is divided into two parts.
At the end of the first half, Japan is leading Iran by two points.
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A half is one end of a sports field.
He kicked the ball deep into New England's half.
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A half is a player who plays in the middle part of the field in sports like football, rugby, etc.
done
Adjective
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When something is done, it is completed and finished.
The work is done.
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When something is done, it is fully cooked.
How done do you like your steak to be?
When the potatoes are done we can eat.
part
Noun
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A part of something is one piece of it or a small amount of it.
As a part of this team, you need to come to practice regularly.
Part of the page was gone, so I couldn't read it.
I don't have the right part to fix your computer, but we've ordered it.
part
Verb
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If A and B part, they were together and now they are not.
My wife and I parted after our son died.
We didn't want to part with the house, but we had to sell it.
He parted the leaves and looked up at the bird.