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I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.
Stephen Cole Kleene

Meaning of "half-time" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HALF-TIME

half-time play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HALF-TIME

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Half-Time is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HALF-TIME MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Half-time

In some team sports such as association football and rugby, matches are played in two halves. Half-time is the name given to the interval between the two halves of the match. Typically, after half-time teams swap ends of the field of play, in order to reduce any advantage that may be gained from wind or a slope to the pitch, for example. While it exists mainly to allow competitors to rest briefly and recover from the play of the first half, half-time also serves a number of other purposes. It also serves as an intermission for spectators, and it often features entertainment, such as cheerleading performances, tifos, performances by school marching bands, or concerts featuring popular music acts. On games that are broadcast on television and radio, it also provides broadcasters with an opportunity to give a recap of the first half of the game, air highlights of other games in progress, air commercials and other advertisements, provide analysis on the game, or air game-related festivities.

Definition of half-time in the English dictionary

The definition of half-time in the dictionary is a rest period between the two halves of a game.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HALF-TIME

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half-smile
half-sole
half-staff
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half-step
half-tide
half-timber
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half-title
half-track
half-tracked
half-true
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half-understood
half-used
half-volley
half-year
half-yearly

WORDS THAT END LIKE HALF-TIME

all-time
at the same time
big-time
double-time
drive-time
full-time
good-time
just-in-time
kill-time
me-time
Minkowski space-time
night-time
old-time
one-time
part-time
prime-time
real-time
small-time
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spare-time
two-time

Synonyms and antonyms of half-time in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «half-time» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HALF-TIME

Find out the translation of half-time to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of half-time from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «half-time» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

中场休息
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

descanso
570 millions of speakers

English

half-time
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

आधे समय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نِصْفُ الوَقْت
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

перерыв между таймами
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

meio tempo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অর্ধেক সময়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mi-temps
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

separuh masa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Halbzeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハーフタイム
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

경기 중의 중간 휴식
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Setengah wektu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giờ giải lao
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அரை நேரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अर्धा वेळ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yarım günlük
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

intervallo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

połowa gry
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

перерва між таймами
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pauză
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ημίχρονο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

half- tyd
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

halvtid
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pause halvveis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of half-time

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-TIME»

The term «half-time» is quite widely used and occupies the 29.969 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HALF-TIME» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about half-time

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QUOTES WITH «HALF-TIME»

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Stephen Cole Kleene
I went to Princeton in the fall of 1930 as a half-time instructor.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HALF-TIME»

Discover the use of half-time in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to half-time and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Scoring At Half-Time: Adventures On and Off the Pitch
Inside stories and lurid tales about George, Bobby, Denis, Nobby and Fergie amongst others. Scoring at Half-Time will delight anyone who has ever wanted to spend time in the company of the footballing legend.
George Best, 2011
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Clinical Anesthesia
The concept of context-sensitive half-time was developed to improve the description and understanding of anesthetic drug disposition.5 This concept has greatly improved our understanding of anesthetic drug disposition and is clinically ...
Paul G. Barash, 2009
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Echocardiography
This tends to shorten the pressure half-time, which in turn leads to overestimation of the mitral valve area.74-137 An increased left ventricular end-diastolic pressure may also adversely affect the pressure half-time measurement. A stiff or  ...
Mark N. Allen, 1999
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The Echo Manual
CONTINUITY. EQUATION. PRESSURE. HALF-TIME. The continuity equation (Fig . 4-18) (see also Chapter 12) is the Gorlin formula of echocardiography and is used to calculate the area of a stenotic or regurgitant valve (27). It uses the ...
Jae K. Oh, James B. Seward, A. Jamil Tajik, 2006
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Dogma and Disarray: Cameron at Half-Time
Compassionate, caring, green: this is how David Cameron presented himself before the election.
Polly Toynbee, David Walker, 2012
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Pharmacology for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
The term context-sensitive half-time (CSHT) has been introduced to describe this variability; the term context refers to the duration of infusion. Context-sensitive half-time is defined as the time for the plasma concentration to fall to half of the ...
Tom E. Peck, Sue Hill, Mark Andrew Williams, 2008
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Opioids in Medicine: A Comprehensive Review on the Mode of ...
The context Sensitive Half Time is the time required for a drug to reach to half its plasma concentration following termination of infusion. The “context” is the duration of the infusion and assumes that the infusion was designed to maintain target ...
Enno Freye, Joseph Victor Levy, 2008
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Practical Echocardiography
The pressure half time measurement is always performed on the E wave of the spectral trace. Patients in atrial fibrillation do not have an A wave and so the pressure half time measurement can easily be measured (this is extremely useful , ...
Catherine A. Walsh, Peter Wilde, 1999
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Handbook of Polyethylene: Structures: Properties, and ...
Crystallization Half-Time Determination. The temperature at which a sample crystallizes during cooling is useful for comparative purposes, but it is often more desirable to know the rate at which crystallization occurs at a fixed temperature.
Andrew Peacock, 2000
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Child Labor: A World History Companion
Half-time Working First introduced to Britain as a re- sult of the Factory Act passed in 1833, half-time working was a system that developed as a response to the growing campaign against child labor led by philanthropists like Lord Shaftesbury, ...
Sandy Hobbs, Jim McKechnie, Michael Lavalette, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HALF-TIME»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term half-time is used in the context of the following news items.
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Half-Time Report: Lazar Markovic, Mamadou Sakho put Liverpool in …
Goals at the start and end of the first half gives Liverpool a 2-0 advantage over Thailand in Bangkok. By Liam Apicella, Features Editor «Sports Mole, Jul 15»
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Capras blow half-time lead against Seagulls
THE CQ Capras have blown a half-time lead of 14-6 to lose 36-14 against the Wynnum Manly Seagulls. On the positive side, it was a fine ... «Mackay Daily Mercury, Jul 15»
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Capras blow eight-point half-time lead
RUGBY LEAGUE: THE CQ Capras blew a half-time lead of 14-6 to lose 36-14 against the Wynnum Manly Seagulls yesterday. On the positive ... «Rockhampton Morning Bulletin, Jul 15»
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Castleford let half-time lead slip to lose at Hull
Daryl Powell's men let a 14-6 half-time lead slip as they went down 21-18 to the team that knocked them out of the Challenge Cup earlier in the ... «Pontefract and Castleford Express, Jul 15»
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Half-Time Report: Robbie Keane scores as Los Angeles Galaxy …
Minutes before half time Keane equalised as he controlled a long pass, cut inside a defender and goalkeeper and stroked the ball into the back ... «Sports Mole, Jul 15»
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Shelbourne 0-3 Town - Half-Time
Town lead 3-0 at half time in their opening pre-season friendly against Shelbourne thanks to goals from Alex Henshall, Darren Ambrose and ... «TWTD.co.uk, Jul 15»
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CONCACAF Gold Cup: Reggae Boyz, Canada 0-0 at half-time
HOUSTON, Texas --- Jamaica's Reggae Boyz and Canada went to the dressing room tied at 0-0 in their Group B CONCACAF Gold Cup match ... «Jamaica Observer, Jul 15»
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FRIENDLY: Half-time: Tamworth 1 Mansfield town 0
An early mistake by new keeper Scott Shearer saw former Stags striker Ross Dyer put Tamworth into a 1-0 half-time at The Lamb in this ... «Mansfield Chad, Jul 15»
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Half-Time Report: Diafra Sakho sent off as West Ham United lead …
Elliot Lee gives West Ham a half-time lead in the second leg of their Europa League qualifying match with Lusitanos after Diafra Sakho was ... «Sports Mole, Jul 15»
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Karanka to make 11 half-time changes at York City, youthful side …
The head coach has confirmed that he'll make 11 substitutions at half-time in the club's opening friendly of the summer at Bootham Crescent. «Gazette Live, Jul 15»

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