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semi

A semi is a kind of trailer that has no front wheels. Also, a truck pulling this kind of trailer. A semi is a semi-final. A semi is a semi-detached house. A semi is a partial erection.

semi

(= semitrailer) a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle (= semifinal) one of the two competitions in the next to the last round of an elimination tournament (= trailer truck) a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together

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Simple sentences

They sat in a semi-circle.

Movie subtitles

I mean, I know. let's get all the sick people, we'll put them in one place, and then have them treated by some semi-socialized beaker head with a God complex.
Everywhere we find these little semi-military upstarts robbing and fighting.
A slight touch of monetary complications with bucolic semi-lunar contraptions of the flying trapezes.
Yes, we're in for our semi-annual wigging, I suppose.
You will build colonial houses, Rococo hotels and semi-Grecian office buildings.
The semi-iceberg of the semi-tropics.
If we suppose that the center of the circumference describes an ellipse of semi-axis M and N, the parametric equations of this ellipse will be.
I never heard of putting tea on anybody. It says stupor or semi-consciousness may be induced by a sharp blow on the head.
His semi-annual visits are a great occasion.
Her vision's disturbed, she's semi paralyzed.
It's what you might call a studio, well, you know, a semi-studio affair.
It was like a game to us. That semi-conscious state, typical of drunkenness.
Semi-final.
Semi-comma.
The room was in semi-darkness and as I shut the door and turned from it..
A semi-equipped young savage who's right where he ought to be.
A slight touch of monetary complications. with bucolic semi-lunar contraptions of the flying trapezes.
I made the semi-finals.
Me the semi-cowlicks there to the man, to wish!
Semi-half, in order?
I leave the temple in semi-darkness until just before the bells start.
I can't go on the rest of my life being a semi-virgin.
What, in the name of all that's gracious, is a semi-virgin?
He gave it to some semi-nude religious nut from Los Angeles.
Semi-professional, actually.
It's semi-automatic.
I could not see well in semi-darkness, but he had a moustache and a beard.
Just as I thought. A slight touch of monetary complications with bucolic semi-lunar contraptions of the flying trapezes.
I'd help you with pleasure, but my semi-official position forbids me to accept recommendations.
Mexico: Semi-tropical country situated between the north and central meridians.
And a lot of semi-semi-maidens.
And semi-semi-semi-maidens.
Something like a semi-permanent settlement.

News and current affairs

It took 15 years for other countries to compete successfully with America's Silicon Valley in semi-conductors, but less than five years in Internet technology.
From this standpoint, this year's World Cup has not only witnessed the triumph of European nations - all semi-finalists were European for the first time since 1982 - but also the absence of even a glimmer of European emotions.
The five economies spelled out their policy plans in considerable detail to the semi-annual meeting of the IMF's membership, which gave them a warm welcome.
Then there is the ongoing conflict of interests between Berlusconi-the-Premier and Berlusconi-the-magnate, who holds public licenses that make him a semi-monopolist in media and TV advertising.
In doing this he has not hesitated to use his semi-monopoly over television to exalt his government's alleged accomplishments.
Premier Orban's semi-successful efforts to unify the right under the banner of FIDESZ are unique among Eastern Europe's fractured and fractious rightist parties.
Many enterprises were closed, not only small State owned enterprises (SOEs), but also countless private and semi-private companies that were even more vulnerable than the SOEs to an economic slow-down.
They bought only government paper and securitized real-estate instruments that were issued by the semi-public bodies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Uyghur membership in the Chinese Communist Party has declined, despite a nationwide increase in membership due to CCP placement of supporters in universities and lucrative jobs in the state and semi-private sectors.
That implication is intolerable, and it will progressively weaken and divide the EU through a type of semi-official hostility to religious faith.
The United Kingdom and Sweden argue that they cannot be made subservient to a central bank of which they are, at best, semi-detached members.
Since 1947, when the CIA was established, the US has had a continuous semi-covert, semi-overt policy of overthrowing foreign governments.
In return for its support, political leaders like ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have allowed the IRGC to grow into a semi-autonomous state-within-a-state.
Everyone knows that these changes ought to be radical, even semi-federal.
Germany and France have proposed stricter rules on borrowing and spending, backed by tough, semi-automatic sanctions for governments that do not comply.
Britain is already semi-detached - outside of Schengen and with opt-outs from the euro and many home-affairs matters (including asylum policy).
Beyond the MDGs semi-success or semi-failure by 2015, the key question is whether the international community will be able to overcome its myopia and schizophrenia.
Millions of households, with tens of millions of nomadic or semi-nomadic people, tend camels, sheep, goats, and other livestock, which they move large distances to reach rain-fed pasturelands.
When Holland beat Germany in the semi-finals of the 1988 European Championship, it was as though justice finally had been done.
Medvedev seems less fearful of NATO than his semi-paranoid predecessor, but Putin has in the past shown surprising flexibility on some strategic issues.
Souley Madi is one of the most productive cotton growers in the Badjengo Cameroon, an area where the lush forests of central Africa give way to the semi-arid Sahel.
The same night that Germany was thrashed by the Italians in the championship's semi-finals, German Chancellor Angela Merkel ran up against the limits of her own powers at the eurozone leaders' summit in Brussels.

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