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Partly vs Semi - What's the difference?

partly | semi |

As an adverb partly

is in part, or to some degree, but not completely.

As a noun semi is

(uk|australia|canada) a semi-detached house.

partly

English

Adverb

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  • In part, or to some degree, but not completely.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2011, date=October 1, author=Phil Dawkes, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Sunderland 2-2 West Brom , passage=Five minutes into the game the Black Cats were facing a mountain, partly because of West Brom's newly-found ruthlessness in front of goal but also as a result of the home side's defensive generosity.}}
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    semi

    English

    (wikipedia semi)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, Australia, Canada) A semi-detached house.
  • * 2008 , Elliott Placks, quoted in Helen Isbister, Morris Bryant, Property , Career FAQs, Australia, page 40,
    • I?m selling two side-by-side semis that are currently under construction, a waterfront apartment and a house in Rose Bay.
  • * 2008 , Barry Goodchild, Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods: Planning and the Residential Landscapes of Modern Britain , 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.
  • 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, unnumbered page,
    • All night we couldn?t hear each other speak because of the sound of semis changing gear to get over the hill.
  • A semifinal.
  • (slang) A partial erection.
  • * 2010 , Mickey Erlach, Video Boys (page 158)
    • The twink got a semi just from that look.

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