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halve
English
Etymology
From Middle English halven, helven, from Old English hilfan, helfan, *hielfan (“to halve, divide in two”), from Proto-West Germanic *halbijan, from Proto-Germanic *halbijan? (“to halve”), from Proto-Germanic *halbaz (“half”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch halven (“to halve”), Middle High German halben, helben (“to halve”). Compare also West Frisian helte (“to halve”), Dutch halveren (“to halve”), German Low German halberen (“to halve”), German halbieren (“to halve”), Danish halvere (“to halve”), Swedish halvera (“to halve”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /h??v/
- Rhymes: -??v
- (US) enPR: h?v, IPA(key): /hæv/
- Rhymes: -æv
- Homophone: have (some accents)
Verb
halve (third-person singular simple present halves, present participle halving, simple past and past participle halved)
- (transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.
- (transitive) To divide into two halves.
- (transitive) To make up half of.
- 1855, Matthew Arnold, Faded Leaves
- So far apart their lives are thrown / From the twin soul that halves their own.
- 1855, Matthew Arnold, Faded Leaves
- (architecture, transitive) To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.
- (golf, transitive) In match play, to achieve a tie or draw on.
Synonyms
- (to divide into two halves): dichotomize, dimidiate; see also Thesaurus:bisect
Translations
Anagrams
- Havel, Vahle
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?halv?], [?hall?]
Adjective
halve
- plural and definite singular attributive of halv
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???l.v?/
Adjective
halve
- Inflected form of half
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
halve (plural halves or halven)
- Alternative form of half
Etymology 2
From Old English helfe.
Noun
halve
- Alternative form of helve
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Adjective
halve
- definite singular of halv
- plural of halv
Etymology 2
From Old Norse halfa
Noun
halve f or m (definite singular halva or halven, indefinite plural halver, definite plural halvene)
- (a) half
Synonyms
- halvdel
- halvpart
References
- “halve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Adjective
halve
- definite singular of halv
- plural of halv
Etymology 2
From Old Norse halfa.
Noun
halve f (definite singular halva, indefinite plural halver, definite plural halvene)
- a half
Synonyms
- halvdel
- halvpart
References
- “halve” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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equity
English
Alternative forms
- æquity (archaic, poetic)
- equitie (archaic)
Etymology
Attested in 14th century; from the 13th century Old French equite, from Latin aequitas (“uniformity; impartiality; fairness”). Doublet of equality.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /??k.w?.ti/
Noun
equity (countable and uncountable, plural equities)
- Fairness, impartiality, or justice as determined in light of "natural law" or "natural right".
- (law) Various related senses originating with the Court of Chancery in late Medieval England
- (law) The power of a court of law having extra-statutory discretion, to decide legal matters and to provide legal relief apart from, though not in violation of, the prevailing legal code; in some cases, a court "sitting in equity" may provide relief to a complainant should the code be found either inapplicable or insufficient to do so.
- 1800, Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon in Mayor, &c. of Southampton v. Graves (1800), 8 T. R. 592.
- A Court of equity knows its own province.
- 1851, Edward Sugden, 1st Baron St Leonards in Birch v. Joy (1851), 3 H. L. C. 598:
- "A Court of equity interposes only according to conscience."
- 1848-55, Thomas Babington Macaulay, History of England, Chapter IX:
- Equity had been gradually shaping itself into a refined science which no human faculties could master without long and intense application.
- 1800, Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon in Mayor, &c. of Southampton v. Graves (1800), 8 T. R. 592.
- (law) A right which accrues to a party in a transaction because of the nature of the transaction itself, and which is exercisable upon a change of circumstances or conditions; in other words, an equitable claim.
- 1999, In Re Fitzgerald, 237 B.R. 252, 261 (Bkrtcy. D.Conn. 1999):
- "...the mortgagor retains ‘equitable title’ or the ‘equity of redemption’….The equity of redemption permits the mortgagor to regain legal title to the mortgaged property upon satisfying the conditions of the mortgage..."
- 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law
- The wife's equity does not, according to the adjudged cases, attach, except upon that part of her personal property in action which the husband cannot acquire without the assistance of a court of equity
- 1999, In Re Fitzgerald, 237 B.R. 252, 261 (Bkrtcy. D.Conn. 1999):
- (law, England) The body of law which was developed in the English Court of Chancery, which Court had extra-statutory discretion, and is now administered alongside the common law of Britain.
- (law) The power of a court of law having extra-statutory discretion, to decide legal matters and to provide legal relief apart from, though not in violation of, the prevailing legal code; in some cases, a court "sitting in equity" may provide relief to a complainant should the code be found either inapplicable or insufficient to do so.
- (finance) Various senses related to net value
- (law, finance) Value of property minus liens or other encumbrances.
- (business) Ownership, especially in terms of net monetary value of some business.
- (accounting) Ownership interest in a company as determined by subtracting liabilities from assets.
- (poker) A player's expected share of the pot.
- (law, finance) Value of property minus liens or other encumbrances.
- (nonstandard) Equality
Translations
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “equity”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
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