Definition of half hour in English:

half hour

noun

1A period of thirty minutes.
buses run every half hour
Example sentencesExamples
- He closed the planner that he was staring at for the past half an hour and looked at the clock in the office.
- The artwork had been fun for about a half-hour, now the displays of jade had become her prison.
- The best part of the day was the last hour before closing and the half an hour or so afterwards.
- I spent the next half-hour washing myself with a hard nugget of soap and a trickle of cold water.
- In the past three months I have waited half an hour to get on a bus on many occasions.
- While the last half-hour is as suspenseful as you could hope, it takes an awful lot of contrivances to get there.
- They had just been walking around for the past half-hour looking for a way out.
- Another half-hour of runtime would have done Luhrmann a world of good.
- The stamps are free and available to anyone willing to wait from a few minutes to a half-hour.
- She had said it, and it had only been a precious few minutes, a half-hour at best.
- Another half-hour, and he'd be enjoying a little bit of beef jerky with his friends.
- He had been lying in the hay pile for a good half-hour before he got up again.
- We whiled away a pleasant half-hour before Marvin signalled that it was medication time back at the Day Centre.
- He knew that the only thing he had done in the past half-hour was to apply a chemical to the stain on the small table.
- There are some funny moments in the first half-hour of this spoof on the Hollywood practice of rewriting British history.
- Nevertheless, having more than survived the following half-hour, next day you want to do it again.
- Lek, the young Thai woman we met in the first half-hour, could have used such counsel.
- They left the stage half an hour later, having done a good job and knowing how to do better next time.
- For the past half an hour, both sister and boyfriend have been torturing me with this.
- The entire sequence takes a good half-hour of screen time, by the end of which you are entirely confused.
1. 1.1 A point in time thirty minutes after any full hour of the clock.
  the library clock struck the half hour
  Example sentencesExamples
  But when he did manage to slip his patrol, near the half-hour, he set up a chance for strike partner Juan Sara.
  Owusu netted the first goal of his second stint at Griffin Park after Paul Brooker sent over an inviting cross on the half-hour.
  They went ahead through a fantastic 20-yard strike from Colin Hunter on the half-hour.
  John Toft cut the arrears on the half-hour and two minutes later Stephen Hutt levelled the game.
  A minute before the half-hour Derek Fleming's cross was met by Andrews on the touchline.

Derivatives

half-hourly

adverb & adjectiveˌhɑːfˈaʊəli

It was announced last week that an improved half-hourly service would run between Bolton and Middlebrook to replace the 127 but no new service has been offered to Westhoughton.
Example sentencesExamples
- There were half-hourly services between Hazel Grove and Stockport, Blackburn and Victoria, Blackpool and Piccadilly, Liverpool and Wigan and every 20 minutes between Preston and Piccadilly, via Bolton.
- On August 30 our No 15 made its last half-hourly run down Green Lane and was replaced on September 2 by an hourly service, the No 17.
- The train company says business has rocketed since it introduced a half-hourly train service last September using tilting Pendolino trains travelling at up to 125 mph.
- This consisted of one injection of penicillin followed, for six hours, by half-hourly injections of distilled water, made with an increasingly blunt needle, into one small area of buttock.

Definition of half hour in US English:

half hour

nounˌhaf ˈou(ə)r

1A period of thirty minutes.
a slide show presented every half hour
Example sentencesExamples
- While the last half-hour is as suspenseful as you could hope, it takes an awful lot of contrivances to get there.
- The best part of the day was the last hour before closing and the half an hour or so afterwards.
- They had just been walking around for the past half-hour looking for a way out.
- He closed the planner that he was staring at for the past half an hour and looked at the clock in the office.
- She had said it, and it had only been a precious few minutes, a half-hour at best.
- Nevertheless, having more than survived the following half-hour, next day you want to do it again.
- There are some funny moments in the first half-hour of this spoof on the Hollywood practice of rewriting British history.
- He knew that the only thing he had done in the past half-hour was to apply a chemical to the stain on the small table.
- He had been lying in the hay pile for a good half-hour before he got up again.
- The stamps are free and available to anyone willing to wait from a few minutes to a half-hour.
- Another half-hour of runtime would have done Luhrmann a world of good.
- I spent the next half-hour washing myself with a hard nugget of soap and a trickle of cold water.
- In the past three months I have waited half an hour to get on a bus on many occasions.
- We whiled away a pleasant half-hour before Marvin signalled that it was medication time back at the Day Centre.
- Another half-hour, and he'd be enjoying a little bit of beef jerky with his friends.
- Lek, the young Thai woman we met in the first half-hour, could have used such counsel.
- They left the stage half an hour later, having done a good job and knowing how to do better next time.
- The artwork had been fun for about a half-hour, now the displays of jade had become her prison.
- The entire sequence takes a good half-hour of screen time, by the end of which you are entirely confused.
- For the past half an hour, both sister and boyfriend have been torturing me with this.
1. 1.1 A point in time thirty minutes after any full hour of the clock.
  the library clock struck the half hour
  Example sentencesExamples
  A minute before the half-hour Derek Fleming's cross was met by Andrews on the touchline.
  They went ahead through a fantastic 20-yard strike from Colin Hunter on the half-hour.
  But when he did manage to slip his patrol, near the half-hour, he set up a chance for strike partner Juan Sara.
  Owusu netted the first goal of his second stint at Griffin Park after Paul Brooker sent over an inviting cross on the half-hour.
  John Toft cut the arrears on the half-hour and two minutes later Stephen Hutt levelled the game.

词汇	half hour
释义	Definition of half hour in English: half hour noun 1A period of thirty minutes. buses run every half hour Example sentencesExamples He closed the planner that he was staring at for the past half an hour and looked at the clock in the office. The artwork had been fun for about a half-hour, now the displays of jade had become her prison. The best part of the day was the last hour before closing and the half an hour or so afterwards. I spent the next half-hour washing myself with a hard nugget of soap and a trickle of cold water. In the past three months I have waited half an hour to get on a bus on many occasions. While the last half-hour is as suspenseful as you could hope, it takes an awful lot of contrivances to get there. They had just been walking around for the past half-hour looking for a way out. Another half-hour of runtime would have done Luhrmann a world of good. The stamps are free and available to anyone willing to wait from a few minutes to a half-hour. She had said it, and it had only been a precious few minutes, a half-hour at best. Another half-hour, and he'd be enjoying a little bit of beef jerky with his friends. He had been lying in the hay pile for a good half-hour before he got up again. We whiled away a pleasant half-hour before Marvin signalled that it was medication time back at the Day Centre. He knew that the only thing he had done in the past half-hour was to apply a chemical to the stain on the small table. There are some funny moments in the first half-hour of this spoof on the Hollywood practice of rewriting British history. Nevertheless, having more than survived the following half-hour, next day you want to do it again. Lek, the young Thai woman we met in the first half-hour, could have used such counsel. They left the stage half an hour later, having done a good job and knowing how to do better next time. For the past half an hour, both sister and boyfriend have been torturing me with this. The entire sequence takes a good half-hour of screen time, by the end of which you are entirely confused. 1.1 A point in time thirty minutes after any full hour of the clock. the library clock struck the half hour Example sentencesExamples But when he did manage to slip his patrol, near the half-hour, he set up a chance for strike partner Juan Sara. Owusu netted the first goal of his second stint at Griffin Park after Paul Brooker sent over an inviting cross on the half-hour. They went ahead through a fantastic 20-yard strike from Colin Hunter on the half-hour. John Toft cut the arrears on the half-hour and two minutes later Stephen Hutt levelled the game. A minute before the half-hour Derek Fleming's cross was met by Andrews on the touchline. Derivatives half-hourly adverb & adjectiveˌhɑːfˈaʊəli It was announced last week that an improved half-hourly service would run between Bolton and Middlebrook to replace the 127 but no new service has been offered to Westhoughton. Example sentencesExamples There were half-hourly services between Hazel Grove and Stockport, Blackburn and Victoria, Blackpool and Piccadilly, Liverpool and Wigan and every 20 minutes between Preston and Piccadilly, via Bolton. On August 30 our No 15 made its last half-hourly run down Green Lane and was replaced on September 2 by an hourly service, the No 17. The train company says business has rocketed since it introduced a half-hourly train service last September using tilting Pendolino trains travelling at up to 125 mph. This consisted of one injection of penicillin followed, for six hours, by half-hourly injections of distilled water, made with an increasingly blunt needle, into one small area of buttock. Definition of half hour in US English: half hour nounˌhaf ˈou(ə)r 1A period of thirty minutes. a slide show presented every half hour Example sentencesExamples While the last half-hour is as suspenseful as you could hope, it takes an awful lot of contrivances to get there. The best part of the day was the last hour before closing and the half an hour or so afterwards. They had just been walking around for the past half-hour looking for a way out. He closed the planner that he was staring at for the past half an hour and looked at the clock in the office. She had said it, and it had only been a precious few minutes, a half-hour at best. Nevertheless, having more than survived the following half-hour, next day you want to do it again. There are some funny moments in the first half-hour of this spoof on the Hollywood practice of rewriting British history. He knew that the only thing he had done in the past half-hour was to apply a chemical to the stain on the small table. He had been lying in the hay pile for a good half-hour before he got up again. The stamps are free and available to anyone willing to wait from a few minutes to a half-hour. Another half-hour of runtime would have done Luhrmann a world of good. I spent the next half-hour washing myself with a hard nugget of soap and a trickle of cold water. In the past three months I have waited half an hour to get on a bus on many occasions. We whiled away a pleasant half-hour before Marvin signalled that it was medication time back at the Day Centre. Another half-hour, and he'd be enjoying a little bit of beef jerky with his friends. Lek, the young Thai woman we met in the first half-hour, could have used such counsel. They left the stage half an hour later, having done a good job and knowing how to do better next time. The artwork had been fun for about a half-hour, now the displays of jade had become her prison. The entire sequence takes a good half-hour of screen time, by the end of which you are entirely confused. For the past half an hour, both sister and boyfriend have been torturing me with this. 1.1 A point in time thirty minutes after any full hour of the clock. the library clock struck the half hour Example sentencesExamples A minute before the half-hour Derek Fleming's cross was met by Andrews on the touchline. They went ahead through a fantastic 20-yard strike from Colin Hunter on the half-hour. But when he did manage to slip his patrol, near the half-hour, he set up a chance for strike partner Juan Sara. Owusu netted the first goal of his second stint at Griffin Park after Paul Brooker sent over an inviting cross on the half-hour. John Toft cut the arrears on the half-hour and two minutes later Stephen Hutt levelled the game.
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