ˈhalf-wordn.

A word or speech which hints or insinuates something, instead of fully asserting it; a hint, suggestion.

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the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken > which hints at something

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c1369 Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 1022 She wolde not fonde To holde no wight in balaunce By halfe worde ne by countenaunce.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 161 b, He said..he understood by y^e halfe word, what the whole ment.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 36 Only by one rash half Word [he was] exasperated against me.

1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh vi. 273 We must scrupulously hint With half-words, delicate reserves.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2015).

half-word n. (also halfword) a group of consecutive bits, which can be handled as a unit, occupying half a word storage unit of a computer.

ΚΠ

1959 J. Jeenel Programming for Digital Computers ii. 60 One might choose a 12-digit word size for the calculator and have a word represent either one number or a pair of instructions. The single-address instructions would be represented by ‘half words’.

1964 Blaauw & Brooks in IBM Systems Jrnl. III. 122 An 8-bit unit of information is fundamental to most of the formats [of the System/360]. A consecutive group of n such units constitutes a field of length n. Fixed-length fields of length one, two, four, and eight are termed bytes, halfwords, words, and double words respectively.

1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing vi. 105 Some machines pack two instructions per cell, and there are different addresses for each half-word, e.g. even addresses for left half-words, odd addresses for right half-words.

单词	half-word
释义	ˈhalf-wordn. A word or speech which hints or insinuates something, instead of fully asserting it; a hint, suggestion. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken > which hints at something half-wordc1369 c1369 Chaucer Bk. Duchesse 1022 She wolde not fonde To holde no wight in balaunce By halfe worde ne by countenaunce. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) iii. 161 b, He said..he understood by y^e halfe word, what the whole ment. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 36 Only by one rash half Word [he was] exasperated against me. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh vi. 273 We must scrupulously hint With half-words, delicate reserves. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2015). > as lemmas half-word half-word n. (also halfword) a group of consecutive bits, which can be handled as a unit, occupying half a word storage unit of a computer. ΚΠ 1959 J. Jeenel Programming for Digital Computers ii. 60 One might choose a 12-digit word size for the calculator and have a word represent either one number or a pair of instructions. The single-address instructions would be represented by ‘half words’. 1964 Blaauw & Brooks in IBM Systems Jrnl. III. 122 An 8-bit unit of information is fundamental to most of the formats [of the System/360]. A consecutive group of n such units constitutes a field of length n. Fixed-length fields of length one, two, four, and eight are termed bytes, halfwords, words, and double words respectively. 1970 O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing vi. 105 Some machines pack two instructions per cell, and there are different addresses for each half-word, e.g. even addresses for left half-words, odd addresses for right half-words. extracted from half-comb. form < n.c1369 as lemmas
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