Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In entomology, a line or mark extending half-way across a surface, as of the wing.
- noun A share of one half the catch of a fishing-line.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geometry
ray ; a line extending indefinitely in one direction from a point.
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Examples
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I suppose that what I mean to say is that sometimes it's the work I could never have the patience for (editing a concordance, compiling statistical data about half-line usages in OE poetry, etc) that makes my work possible, and for that, I'm exceedingly grateful. cross posted at ITM.
Archive 2009-05-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2009
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I suppose that what I mean to say is that sometimes it's the work I could never have the patience for (editing a concordance, compiling statistical data about half-line usages in OE poetry, etc) that makes my work possible, and for that, I'm exceedingly grateful. cross posted at ITM.
A Short Ode to the Concordance Mary Kate Hurley 2009
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This holiday season, you can test your story-telling skills against your friends and loved ones, and for once -- perhaps disappointing those of us who took the time to learn Siever's half-line types in the hopes of a future career as a scop*** -- meter doesn't count.
Archive 2007-12-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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This holiday season, you can test your story-telling skills against your friends and loved ones, and for once -- perhaps disappointing those of us who took the time to learn Siever's half-line types in the hopes of a future career as a scop*** -- meter doesn't count.
More Beowulf Mary Kate Hurley 2007
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The specific design that applies to this year's election rhetoric though was the original "Piece" shirt which had a randomly divided circle pie graph (without that top to bottom half-line that would form the 'peace' symbol inside a circle).
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The first few times around I would read a half-line, and the class would repeat it back to me together.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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The first few times around I would read a half-line, and the class would repeat it back to me together.
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I had advanced so far as to sit down at my window again on my second morning, and to write the first half-line of the chapter and strike it out, not liking it, when my conscience reproached me with not having surveyed the watering-place out of the season, after all, yesterday, but with having gone straight out of it at the rate of four miles and a half an hour.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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There was also a half-line of a Pythian oracle to the same effect:
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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And a scrawled half-line in Jorge Sanchez's familiar handwriting: 650 at $100k per.
Bad Luck and Trouble Child, Lee 2007
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