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half-intensity |
half-learned |
half-length |
half-life |
half-light |
half-mast
| half-moon
| half-pay
| half-penny
| half-pike
| half-pint
half-mast
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun half-mast has 1 sense
- half-mast(n = noun.location) half-staff - a position some distance below the top of a mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress; Array is a kind of place, position
CIDE DICTIONARY
half-mast, n.
A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mourning, etc.). [1913 Webster]
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