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# halfway

«halfway» in Mova's school dictionary: **in the middle between two places or two times: halfway up…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (halfway); adjective (a halfway point)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Halfway means in the middle between two places or two times: halfway up the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halfway/#m1)

2) Halfway can mean partly, not fully: halfway finished. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halfway/#m2)

3) To meet someone halfway means to agree to a compromise where both give up something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halfway/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths, the halfway point between two numbers is their middle: halfway between 10 and 20 is 15 (add them and divide by 2); halfway through a 60-minute lesson is 30 minutes. In stories and travel: halfway there. In sport: halftime at the halfway line. Phrases: halfway through, halfway between, halfway there, meet halfway, halfway line.

### examples

- We stopped halfway up the mountain for a snack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halfway/#x1)
- We are halfway there! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halfway/#x2)
- Halfway between 0 and 100 is 50. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halfway/#x3)
- I am halfway through my book. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halfway/#x4)
- The film stopped halfway because of a power cut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halfway/#x5)
- Let's meet halfway: you choose the game and I choose the snack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halfway/#x6)
- The ball crossed the halfway line. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halfway/#x7)
- He fell asleep halfway through the story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halfway/#x8)
- Before he was halfway to the farther shore, a storm overtook him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halfway/#x9)

### note

One word: halfway (also written «half-way» in older British books). Maths: halfway = one half of the distance or time; halfway between a and b = (a + b) ÷ 2.

### In the corpora

- [On a real head the eyes sit about halfway down, not near the top.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/12-drawing-lines-shapes-and-drawing-what-you-really-see/9/)
- [Halfway through his speech, he notices the Rat is asleep.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/38-willows-ch4-part2-toad-news-and-hedgehogs/7/)
- [Kai changes his mind halfway through a book: that is not failing, it is reading well.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/19-prediction-what-happens-next/7/)
- [Polite people catch it halfway and turn it into a harmless word that starts with the same sound.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/38-drat-and-the-f-word/1/)
- [For a long savings goal, you celebrate halfway and keep going.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/261-pocket-money-saving-and-spending/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «halfway» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halfway/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.