different between haft vs semi

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hæft/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??ft/
• Rhymes: -??ft, -æft

Etymology 1

From Old English hæft, from Proto-Germanic *haftij?.

Noun

haft (plural hafts)

1. The handle of a tool or weapon.
   • 1679, John Dryden, Oedipus

     This brandish'd dagger / I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast.

Synonyms

• helve

Hyponyms

• hilt (sword handle)
• stale, stail, stele, steal (axe handle)

Translations

Verb

haft (third-person singular simple present hafts, present participle hafting, simple past and past participle hafted)

1. (transitive) To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon); to grip by the handle

Derived terms

• haftable

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hefð.

Alternative forms

• heft

Noun

haft (plural hafts)

1. (Northern English dialect) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted.

Translations

Anagrams

• Fath

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?fd?]

Verb

haft

1. past participle of have

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haft/
  • Rhymes: -aft

Noun

haft n (genitive singular hafts, nominative plural höft)

1. (of a horse) hobble
2. (in the plural) restrictions
3. (anatomy) frenulum
4. (genetics, of a chromosome) constriction

Declension

Derived terms

• aukahaft (secondary constriction)
• baklituhaft (posterior synechia)
• baugslituhaft (annular synechia)
• dausgarnarlokuhaft (frenulum valvae ilealis)
• dreift þráðhaft (diffuse centromere)
• efrivararhaft (frenulum labii superioris)
• forhúðarhaft (frenulum preputii penis)
• framlituhaft (anterior synechia)
• fylgiþráðhaft (centromerus comitans)
• hæðarhaft (altitude hold)
• haftaskurður (synechotomy)
• haftasvæði (restricted area)
• haft efra mænukylfutjalds (frenulum veli medullaris superioris)
• ljósstreymisstuðull straumhafts (ballast lumen factor)
• meðalhaftlengd (mean free path)
• meyjarhaft (hymen)
• meyjarhaftsdoppur (carunculae hymenales)
• neðrivararhaft (frenulum labii inferioris)
• oplaust meyjarhaft (imperforate hymen)
• skapabarmahaft (frenulum labiorum pudendi)
• snípshaft (frenulum clitoridis)
• þráðhaft (centromere)
• þráðhaftskúla (spherula centromeri)
• þráðhaftslaus (acentric)
• tunguhaft (frenulum linguae; ankyloglossia, tongue-tie)

Old Norse

Participle

haft

1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of hafðr

Verb

haft

1. supine of hafa

Polish

Etymology

From Middle High German haft (“chain link”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaft/

Noun

haft m inan

1. embroidery

Declension

Related terms

• haftowa?

Further reading

• haft in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• haft in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse hefð.

Noun

haft (plural hafts)

1. Alternative spelling of heft

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?haft/

Verb

haft

1. supine of ha.
2. supine of hava.

English

Etymology

The prefix semi- (from Latin) used as a noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?mi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?mi/, /?sema?/
• Rhymes: -?mi
• Hyphenation: semi

Noun

semi (plural semis)

1. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada, informal) 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.

2. (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US) A semitrailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic.
   • 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.

3. (informal) A semifinal.
4. (slang) A partial erection.
   • 2010, Mickey Erlach, Video Boys (page 158)

     The twink got a semi just from that look.

Translations

Anagrams

• EMIs, ESMI, IMEs, MSIE, Sime, eSIM, mise

Esperanto

Etymology

From semo +? -i.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?semi/
• Hyphenation: se?mi
• Rhymes: -emi

Verb

semi (present semas, past semis, future semos, conditional semus, volitive semu)

1. (intransitive) to sow

Conjugation

Italian

Noun

semi m

1. plural of seme

Anagrams

• mesi, mise

Japanese

Romanization

semi

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Old Norse

Verb

semi

1. third-person active present subjunctive of semja

Swahili

Noun

semi

1. plural of usemi

Swedish

Noun

semi c

1. Clipping of semifinal.

Declension

Venetian

Adjective

semi

1. masculine plural of semo