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Halfe vs Halve - What's the difference?

halfe | halve |

As a noun halfe

is .

As an adverb halfe

is .

As a verb halve is

to reduce to half the original amount.

halfe

English

Noun

(head)
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  • * {{quote-news, year=2004, date=June 4, author=Harold Henderson, title=The Consumer Revolution, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=In 1721 in Berwick, Maine, peddler William Moore sold Daniel Goodwin "a yard and a halfe of Stuff for handcarchiefs,"

    Adverb

    (-)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1594, author=Christopher Marlowe, title=The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Frighted with this confused noyse, I rose, And looking from a turret, might behold Yong infants swimming in their parents bloud, Headles carkasses piled vp in heapes, Virgins halfe dead dragged by their golden haire,

    halve

    English

    Verb

    (halv)
  • To reduce to half the original amount.
  • To divide into two halves.
  • To make up half of.
  • * M. Arnold
    • So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own.
  • (architecture) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.

    • Anagrams

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