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Meaning halve meaning

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halve Verb

— If you halve something, you divide it into two equal parts; you divide it in half Chop the onion, mince the garlic, and halve the cherry tomatoes.

halve

— verb divide by two; divide into halves Halve the cake

Synonyms halve synonyms

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halve English » English

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Topics halve topics

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Daily life Food Food preparation

Steps in food preparation
Physical actions

Divide into pieces
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Cut
States Quantity Number

Fraction
States Quantity More

Decrease

Conjugation halve conjugation

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halve · verb

Examples halve examples

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Movie subtitles

Let's halve it.
I have to sink this to halve the game, right?
You can halve the members' entertainments allowance, sell the Mayor's second Daimler, postpone the building of the new town hall, and cancel the 20 councillors' mission to Jamaica.
We'll halve the costs!
Here, we'll halve the vegetables and the beans.
What would you say if I promised to halve the cocaine shipments to the US?
Faites vos jeux, gentlemen I should halve your estimates of last time.
And to cut oneself off from finding that person. to immediately halve your options by eliminating the possibility. of finding that one person within your own gender. that just seemed stupid to me.
You know if you take anything this witch gives you, you halve the dose.
The government want a worst-case scenario, so they can blame us and halve our budget.
Let's halve these.
We might halve the death rate for children under five by 2150.
The goals were basically a universal promise. to halve extreme poverty. poverty that actually kills people.
To halve the number of children who die before they're five. which is shockingly high, or mothers who die in childbirth. which is heartbreakingly high.
Let's halve it. Don't leave me here!
Tomorrow, to I halve it, the Johnnie will be gone by friends, for his mother, his father, Hastings for Poirot!
Generally I am ready about I halve it.
Very well, boys. We bring together ourselves again to I halve it.
Sure. You halve your chances.
And to cut oneself off from finding that person-- to immediately halve your options by eliminating the possibility. of finding that one person within your own gender-- that just seemed stupid to me.
Let's halve this.
We ought to halve everything.
Halve the sets, by grouping certain scenes.
Halve the schedule, the extras, the film stock.
Halve them you mean.
If you get sick, they halve your pay instead of increasing it!
Johnnie. I halve it!
Dollar and a halve?
We'd more than halve the time to their slaughter weight.
You keep the shop, I keep the practice, and we halve the equity on the house.
I told you to halve the order. And I don't want all this asparagus.
If we banned our furry friends we'd halve the crime rate.
Maybe we'll halve the forfeit between you.
Because it's the halves that halve you in half.
Halve the clinic hours that you recently doubled and double the hooker budget that you recently halved.

News and current affairs

In 2005, the international community renewed its commitments to help the poorest countries meet the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDG's), which aim to halve poverty by 2015.
At the start of the new millennium, the world's leaders got together to adopt the Millennium Development Goals, the global commitment to halve extreme poverty by 2015.
Rapid export growth, together with a drop in imports, enabled Spain to halve its trade deficit last year.
So, should we halve malaria while dramatically increasing the possibility of solving global warming in the medium term?
The world would halve the proportion of people suffering from hunger and living in extreme poverty, achieve universal primary education, and dramatically reduce child mortality by 2015.
In 2000, the world's governments adopted the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, which aim to halve global poverty by 2015.
Halve that waste, and the world could feed an extra billion people - and make hunger yesterday's problem.
Even before 2000, the World Food Summit, held in Rome in 1996, pledged to halve the numberof undernourished people by 2015.
By contrast, the corresponding MDG was to halve the proportion of the world's people who are suffering from hunger (as well as of those living in extreme poverty).
In Africa, after economic stagnation in the 1990's, a decade of encouraging economic growth is reducing the proportion of the population living in extreme poverty, but not quickly enough to halve it by 2015.
Indeed, that is why one of the key targets of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals - to halve the number of people living in absolute poverty - was achieved five years ahead of the deadline.
And Rousseff's use of revenues from the Brazilian energy giant Petrobras to fund domestic social programs has caused the firm's share price to halve - alienating oil investors.
Sanofi-Aventis recently announced that it would halve the price of its diabetes drug, Lantus, and cancer treatment, Taxotere, in Indonesia and the Philippines.
PRINCETON - In 2000, the world's leaders met in New York and issued a ringing Millennium Declaration, promising to halve the proportion of people suffering from extreme poverty and hunger by 2015.

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