Half vs Biannual - What's the difference?
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Consisting of a moiety, or half (1/2, 50%).
Consisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect.
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(of a sibling) Having one parent (rather than two) in common.
Related through one common grandparent or ancestor rather than two.
(UK, time) Half an hour after the time given; half past.
In two equal parts or to an equal degree; in some part approximating a half; partially; imperfectly
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* Nehemiah 13:24 :
One of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided; — sometimes followed by of; as, a half of an apple.
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# (sports) One of the two opposite parts of the playing field of various sports, in which each starts the game.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 16, author=Ben Dirs, title=Rugby World Cup 2011: New Zealand 83-7 Japan, work=BBC Sport
, passage=However, the hosts hit back and hit back hard, first replacement hooker Andrew Hore sliding over, then Williams careering out of his own half and leaving several defenders for dead before flipping the ball to Nonu to finish off a scintillating move.}}
Half of a standard measure; frequently used (British) for half a pint of beer or cider.
* 1968 (British), John Braine, The Crying Game , Houghton Mifflin,
* 1974 (British), James Herriot, All Things Bright and Beautiful , St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312020309,
* 2006 (British), Bill Appleton, Wide Boy , Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie, ISBN 1843862530,
The fraction obtained by dividing 1 by 2.
(obsolete) part; side; behalf
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To halve.
a half-hour after, thirty minutes after (used with the number of the hour)
Semiannual: occurring twice a year
* 1980 , Jose D. Salas, 'Applied Modeling of Hydrologic Time Series', Water Resources Publication, ISBN 0918334373, page 448 section 8.9
* 1988 , Ursula Schneider & Michael Schratz, Permanent Education Between New Illiteracy and High Power Technology: 198 , Institute for the Comparative Study of Public Policy, University of New Orleans, ISBN 0962142301,introduction,
* 1992 , Simon J. Nuttall, European Political Co-operation , Oxford University Press, page 286,
* 2001 , Jack C. Harris, Jack P. Friedman, Real Estate Handbook , Barron's Educational Series, ISBN 0764152637, page 163,
* 2008 , Royal College of Nursing website (UK)
Occurring once every two years.
* 1993 , World Bank, Developing the Occupied Territories: An Investment in Peace'', volume 4, ''Agriculture , ISBN 0821326910, page 1,
* 1997 , Steven Blakemore, Intertextual War , Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ISBN 0838637515, pages 190–192,
* 2001 , Kenneth I. Wolpin, Empirical Methods for the Study of Labor Force Dynamics , Routledge, ISBN 0415269407, page 84,
* 2004 , Lee Penn, False Dawn , Sophia Perennis, ISBN 159731000X, page 380, footnote 3,
Something occurring twice each year.
* 1995 , Xi yang yu wen yan jiu suo & Danjiang da xue, Tamkang Review , Graduate School of Western Languages and Literature, Tamkang University, page 366,
As adjectives the difference between half and biannual
is that half is consisting of a moiety, or half (1/2, 50%) while biannual is semiannual: occurring twice a year.As nouns the difference between half and biannual
is that half is one of two usually roughly equal parts into which anything may be divided, or considered as divided; — sometimes followed by of; as, a half of an apple while biannual is something occurring twice each year.As an adverb half
is in two equal parts or to an equal degree; in some part approximating a half; partially; imperfectly.As a verb half
is to halve.As a preposition half
is a half-hour after, thirty minutes after used with the number of the hour.half
English
Adjective
(-)- a half''' bushel''; ''a '''half''' hour''; ''a '''half''' dollar''; ''a '''half view
- a half''' dream''; '''''half knowledge
- Assumed from thence a half consent.
- A (half brother) or (half sister)
- A (half uncle) or (half aunt) or (half cousin)
- We went to bed at half ten.
Usage notes
* The adjective and noun are often united to form a compound.Synonyms
* hemi-, semi-, demi-Derived terms
* half ape * half back * half bent * half binding * half boarder * half-breadth plan * half brother * half cadence * half cap * half cock * half cocked * half hitch * half hose * half-life * Half Life * half measure * half-moon * half note * half page * half pay * half price * half round * half shift * half sister * half step * half tide * half time * half tint * half truth * half yearAdverb
(-)- half'''-colored''; '''''half''' done''; '''''half'''-hearted''; '''''half''' persuaded''; '''''half conscious
- Half' loth and ' half consenting.
- Their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod.
Noun
(halves)- You don't know the half of it.
- Not half his riches known, and yet despised.
- A friendship so complete Portioned in halves between us
citation
p. 11,
- He came back with a pint of Guinness for me and a half of bitter for Wendy.
- I accepted a half of bitter from him.
p. 168,
- I went to the bar where I bought a pint and two large brandies. ... "Not brandy," she replied, "but I could use a long drink - maybe a half of lager."
- Three-quarters minus a quarter is a half .
- The four halves of the house
Synonyms
*Derived terms
* better half * by halves * cry halves * go halves * half a loaf is better than none * half and half * in half * in one's half * know the half of * not half * not half bad * other half * too clever by halfVerb
Preposition
(English prepositions)- half one — half past one, 1:30
See also
* half-References
*biannual
English
Adjective
(-)- The annual values were disaggregated into biannual' values. Then the ' biannual values were disaggregated into quarterly values. Finally the quarterly values were disaggregated into the desired monthly values.
- ...during the 1988 biannual symposia in February (New Orleans) and May (Innsbruck).
- ... the biannual meetings between the President of the European Council and the President of the United States were formalized, there were to be two meetings per year ....
- Example: Under a lease, Abel is required to make biannual rent payments, ...
- Biannual newsletter: The Society publishes a twice yearly newsletter, called "Headlines"
- The relative share of agriculture in GDP of the West Bank (calculated on the basis of fixed 1986 prices, and as a two-year average to deal with the major biannual fluctuations in olive production) declined... .
- Thus he argues that the members of the National Assembly were independent from the constituencies that elected them, because the latter (the assemblies, administrative and elected) are "biennially renewed," as was the National Assembly.... This [being responsible to electors] is implicitly the case of the representatives in the National Assembly, who must also face biannual elections....
- Now, after having solved the biannual' period problem back to period one of the ten ' biannual periods, i.e. quarters 77–84... .
- "The Earth Charter opens a new phase...." (Mikhail Gorbachev, as quoted in The Earth Charter Initiative, Biannual Report 2002–2003, Earth Charter International Secretariat,
http://www.earthcharter.org/files/resources/Biannual%20Report.pdf , p 10,...).
Usage notes
Although biannual'' properly means twice a year, its conflation with (biennial) (once every two years) is quite common. For clarity, one can use ''twice a year or other synonyms instead.Derived terms
* biannuallySynonyms
* semiannual, twice-yearlyNoun
(en noun)- It was a biannual from April 1970 to October 1977 and has been a quarterly since fall 1978.
