different between discontinued vs halfpenny
discontinued
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?d?sk?n?t?nju?d/
Adjective
discontinued (not comparable)
- Permanently no longer available or in production.
Synonyms
- defunct, disused, outdated; see also Thesaurus:obsolete
Translations
Verb
discontinued
- simple past tense and past participle of discontinue
- This software line has been discontinued.
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halfpenny
English
Alternative forms
- (with the first element, half, preserved) halfepenny, halfepeny, halfepenie, halfepenye; halfpenny, halfpeny, halfpenie, halfpenye (all obsolete except halfpenny)
- (with the first element reduced to hal-, ha’, or ha-) halpeny, halpenye, hapeney, ha’penny, hapenny, happenny (all obsolete except ha’penny)
- (with the first element corrupted to haw-) hawpny (dialectal, obsolete)
- (pre-decimalisation abbreviation) ½d
Etymology
From the Middle English halpeni, either from the late-Old English halpenige or from half +? peni; equivalent to half +? penny and continually reinforced by that surface analysis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?he?p(?)ni/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h??f?p?ni/ (spelling pronunciation)
Noun
halfpenny (plural halfpennies or halfpence)
- (plural: halfpennies) (historical) A discontinued British coin worth half of one penny (old or new).
- Christmas is coming (traditional carol)
- If you haven't got a penny, / A ha'penny will do, / If you haven't got a ha'penny, / Then God bless you.
- Christmas is coming (traditional carol)
- (plural: halfpence) A quantity of money worth half a penny.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It (act III, scene 2)
- There were none principal; they were all like one another as halfpence are; every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow fault came to match it.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It (act III, scene 2)
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
halfpenny (not comparable)
- Costing or worth one halfpenny.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2 (act IV, scene 2)
- There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 2 (act IV, scene 2)
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