different between semi vs semy

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

English

Adjective

semy (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of semé

Anagrams

• Seym, Syme, emys, yems, yes'm