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halfway (iou) and septempartite (medicine)


halfway (iou)



halfway adverb, preposition, noun, & adjective. Also half-way. ME.
[from HALF- + WAY noun.]
A. adverb. At or to half the way or distance; loosely partially. ME.
meet halfway: see MEET verb.
Times Higher Education Supplement In science, there are fields which are a gift for any half-way decent PR Officer. A. Ghosh Bahram stopped only when he was halfway to his own house.
B. preposition. Halfway up, down, along, etc. E17-E18.
I. Watts Faint devotion panting lies, Half way th' ethereal hill.
C. noun. A point or position midway between two extreme points; a halfway place. Now rare. M17.
L. Hutchinson In the half-way between Owthorpe and Nottingham.
D. adjective. Midway or equidistant between two points; fig. midway between two states or conditions, half one thing and half another. L17.
halfway house (a) a house or esp. an inn midway between two towns or stages of a journey; (b) fig. a compromise; (c) the halfway point in a progression; (d) a centre for rehabilitating ex-prisoners, mental patients, or others unused to normal life. halfway line Football, Hockey, etc. a line midway between the two goals.
Hannah More Some half-way state, something between paganism and christianity. E. K. Kane My aim was to reach the half-way tent.

septempartite (medicine)


septempartite
Divided nearly to the base into seven parts; as, a septempartite leaf.

Origin: L. Septem seven + E. Partite.

Source: Websters Dictionary