half-length
半长,半长的,半长不短,半长条
Definitions
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- : something that is only half a full length or height, especially a portrait that shows only the upper half of the body, including the hands.
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- : of half the complete length or height.
Examples
Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
To his critics, he explained—sometimes at painful length—his reasoning against it.
My dad was a sailor, and all through my childhood he was away half of the time at sea, and to an extent I have a similar job.
As a result, training squadrons—called Formal Training Units (FTU)—are being staffed with less than half the people they need.
Travel Noire fellows earned about a half million travel miles in 2014.
It ended on a complaint that she was 'tired rather and spending my time at full length on a deck-chair in the garden.'
It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.
A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."
All changes are to be Rang either by walking them (as the term is) or else Whole-pulls, or Half-pulls.