Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

do by half-measures

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.59 in modern English

Syllables: do by half-mea-sures
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

3

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Alternative form of do by halves.

Example Sentences

"Geert Groote, founder of the Brothers and Sisters of the Common Life, was an enormously appealing, highly idiosyncratic figure of tremendous energy and talent – a man who did nothing, ever, by half measures."
"Brigham Young never did anything by half measures."
"And therefore it was especially his disdain for mediocrity and for doing things by half measures that made him expect something from the Party, which had promised to do something decisive and to contradict communism effectively."

Inflected Forms

does by half-measures (present, singular) doing by half-measures (participle, present) did by half-measures (past) done by half-measures (participle, past)

Questions

What does do by half-measures mean?: Alternative form of do by halves.

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