Haft vs Semi - What's the difference?
haft | semi |
The handle of a tool or weapon.
* Dryden
(Northern English dialect) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted.
(UK, Australia, Canada) A semi-detached house.
* 2008 , Elliott Placks, quoted in Helen Isbister, Morris Bryant, Property , Career FAQs, Australia,
* 2008 , Barry Goodchild, Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods: Planning and the Residential Landscapes of Modern Britain ,
A semitrailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler.
* 2011 , Eamonn Duff, Schapelle Corby: The Untold Story Behind Her Ill-Fated Drug Run , Allen & Unwin, Australia,
A semifinal.
(slang) A partial erection.
* 2010 , Mickey Erlach, Video Boys (page 158)
As nouns the difference between haft and semi
is that haft is custody, imprisonment while semi is (uk|australia|canada) a semi-detached house.haft
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- This brandish'd dagger / I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast.
Synonyms
* hilt (sword handle ) * stale, stail, stele, steal (axe handle )Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* heftNoun
(en noun)semi
English
(wikipedia semi)Noun
(en noun)page 40,
- I?m selling two side-by-side semis that are currently under construction, a waterfront apartment and a house in Rose Bay.
page 52,
- The smaller semis of the 1920s and 1930s were closely related to the three bedroom pre-1919 narrow fronted terraces, at least to the larger pre-1919 terraces.
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- All night we couldn?t hear each other speak because of the sound of semis changing gear to get over the hill.
- The twink got a semi just from that look.