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# halve

«halve» in Mova's school dictionary: **to cut or divide it into two equal parts** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (halve, halves, halved, halving)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To halve something is to cut or divide it into two equal parts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halve/#m1)

2) To halve an amount is to make it half as big. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halve/#m2)

3) Halved means made half as big, or cut into halves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halve/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

An operation: divide by 2. In cooking: halve a recipe, halve an apple. In everyday life: halve the cost with a friend. In science: halve the water and see what happens. Phrases: «halve it», «cut in half», «halved the price».

### examples

- Halve the 12 apples between two boys. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halve/#x1)
- The price was halved to 20 dollars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halve/#x2)
- She halves the recipe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halve/#x3)
- If you halve 50, you get 25. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halve/#x4)
- Mum halved the sandwich for me and my sister. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halve/#x5)
- Halve the oranges and squeeze out the juice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halve/#x6)
- Walking to school halved the time I spend in traffic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halve/#x7)
- If we share the bill, we halve the cost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/halve/#x8)

### note

Halve means ÷ 2. Trap: «halved to 20» gives the new amount, so the old amount was 40; «halved by» is unusual and still means ÷ 2. Spelling: halve is the verb, half is the noun; «halves» is both the verb form (she halves) and the plural of half (two halves). Say «hahv» — the l is silent.

### In the corpora

- [Learning a family together halves the work.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/3-tricky-words-and-common-exception-words/11/)
- [A helmet that fits well can more than halve the chance of a serious head injury in a bike crash.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/5-bikes-and-scooters/19/)
- ["A problem shared is a problem halved" is a saying meaning that talking about a problem makes it feel smaller.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/reflection/30-getting-through-it-who-helps-what-helps-and-looking-back/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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