Half and Like

Half

Half adverb - In some measure or degree.

Usage example: what you said is only half true

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Like and half are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Like" instead the word "Half" as a noun or an adverb.

Nearby Word: halve

Like noun - One that is equal to another in status, achievement, or value.

Usage example: we'd never seen its like in any other shop in town

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Half and like are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Half" instead the word "Like" as a noun or an adverb.

Nearby Words: likely, likeness, liking, liked, likeable

live	live half	live like
human	human half	human like
good	good half	good like
alien	alien half	alien like
Other adjectives: light, entire, large, big, serious, evil, bad, black, white, past, broken, smaller, different, western, younger.

Expy: A chapter, which focuses on merpeople instead of Himeno and her friends, has a half-mermaid-half-satyr who looks like Himeno.

Source: Manga / A Centaur's Life
On a similar note, splitting up food (like drinking half of a soda so someone else can have a half) decreased the chances of healing.

Source: Hyperactive Metabolism
In The Griffin's Daughter Trilogy, half-human/half-elves - like the title character, Jelena - are known as hikui among the elves, and are treated as second-class citizens, at best.

Source: Half Human Hybrid / Literature

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