Half of 1 4 cup

Half of 1 4 cup definition of half on Dictionary. 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

See how your sentence looks with different synonyms. Malinger More With This Word Of The Day Quiz! Orgreave to say: “You mean, she’s invited herself. One of two equal parts that together constitute a whole. One part approximately equal to the remaining part.

One of the two playing periods into which certain games are divided. Half an hour: a half past one. Being one of two equal parts. Partial or incomplete: gave me a half smile. To the extent of exactly or nearly 50 percent: The tank is half empty. By an excessive amount: too clever by half.

Only a fraction or a small part of. Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. Half or half of an amount or object is one of the two equal parts that together make up the whole amount or object.

You use half or half of in front of a noun phrase beginning with a determiner. He had finished about half his drink. She is allowed to keep half of her tips. She’d known me half her life. For half of his adult life he has lived in Tokyo. In front of measurement words like metre, kilogram, or hour, you always use half, not ‘half of’.

They were nearly half a mile away. The fault was fixed in half an hour. They had been friends for about half a century. Use half of in front of pronouns. The waitress brought the drink, and Ellen drank half of it immediately. More than half of them have gone back to their home towns.

Don’t use ‘they’ or ‘we’ after half of. Half of them have had no education at all. If production goes down by half, half of us lose our jobs. When you use half or half of in front of a singular noun or pronoun, you use a singular form of a verb after the noun or pronoun. Half her property belongs to him.

Half of it was destroyed in a fire. When you use half or half of in front of a plural noun or pronoun, you use a plural form of a verb after the noun or pronoun. Half of them were still married. Roughly half are French and roughly half are from North America.

Half of the money is for you, half is for me. You can also use half as a noun to talk about a particular part of something. The house was built in the first half of the eighteenth century. Philip rented an apartment in the top half of a two-storey house. A half of the voters have not made up their minds.