halfway
part of speech
adverb (halfway); adjective (a halfway point)
meaning for a pupil
1) Halfway means in the middle between two places or two times: halfway up the hill. tree →
2) Halfway can mean partly, not fully: halfway finished. tree →
3) To meet someone halfway means to agree to a compromise where both give up something. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths, the halfway point between two numbers is their middle: halfway between 10 and 20 is 15 (add them and divide by 2); halfway through a 60-minute lesson is 30 minutes. In stories and travel: halfway there. In sport: halftime at the halfway line. Phrases: halfway through, halfway between, halfway there, meet halfway, halfway line.
examples
- We stopped halfway up the mountain for a snack. tree →
- We are halfway there! tree →
- Halfway between 0 and 100 is 50. tree →
- I am halfway through my book. tree →
- The film stopped halfway because of a power cut. tree →
- Let's meet halfway: you choose the game and I choose the snack. tree →
- The ball crossed the halfway line. tree →
- He fell asleep halfway through the story. tree →
- Before he was halfway to the farther shore, a storm overtook him. tree →
note
One word: halfway (also written «half-way» in older British books). Maths: halfway = one half of the distance or time; halfway between a and b = (a + b) ÷ 2.
In the corpora
- On a real head the eyes sit about halfway down, not near the top.
- Halfway through his speech, he notices the Rat is asleep.
- Kai changes his mind halfway through a book: that is not failing, it is reading well.
- Polite people catch it halfway and turn it into a harmless word that starts with the same sound.
- For a long savings goal, you celebrate halfway and keep going.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «halfway» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.