FIRST HALF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does first half mean? 

• FIRST HALF (noun)
  The noun FIRST HALF has 1 sense:

1. the first of two halves of play

  Familiarity information: FIRST HALF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FIRST HALF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The first of two halves of play

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("first half" is a kind of...):

half (one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval)

 Context examples 

A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal inversion inv(11)(p15q22) which fuses the first half of the NUP98 gene to the 3' portion of the DDX10 gene.

(DDX10/NUP98 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(9;22)(q22-31;q11-12) which fuses the first half of the EWSR1 gene to the entire coding sequence of the NR4A3 gene.

(EWSR1/NR4A3 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

They argued that during the first half of the planet's 4.5-billion-year history, the bottom third of Earth's mantle would have been molten, which they call "the basal magma ocean."

(Earth's mantle, not its core, may have generated planet's early magnetic field, National Science Foundation)

The authors predict that the current solar cycle, Solar Cycle 24, will end in the first half of 2020, kicking off Solar Cycle 25 shortly afterward.

('Terminators' on the sun trigger plasma tsunamis, start of new solar cycles, National Science Foundation)

April and the first half of May will become a critically important period of 2020 for you, a time when you will be able to garner much support from VIPs who can help you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

During the first half of pregnancy, the epithelium undergoes considerable growth leading to the formation of new terminal branches of ducts and of alveoli.

(Mammary Epithelium, NCI Thesaurus)

A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(5;11)(q35;p15.5) which fuses the first half of the NUP98 gene to the 3' portion of the NSD1 gene.

(NSD1/NUP98 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(11;20)(p15;q11) which fuses the first half of the NUP98 gene with exon 7 of the TOP1 gene.

(NUP98/TOP1 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

The first half is the worst half, and we might cut his time if all goes well.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A fusion gene that results from a chromosomal translocation t(1;11)(q23;p15.5) which fuses the first half of the NUP98 gene to the 3' portion of the PRRX1 gene.

(NUP98/PRRX1 Fusion Gene, NCI Thesaurus)