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单词 half-length
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Definition of half-length in English:

half-length

adjective
  • 1Of approximately half the normal length.

    全长的一半的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • By the first 500-metre mark Germany had taken a half-length lead over the new United States line-up and Slovenia.
    • Three-quarter or half-length sleeves enhance the summer appeal of skirts and pants in fashion prints.
    • She changed into loose-fitting trousers, made from real cotton grown in one of the neighbouring villages, and a cotton top with half-length sleeves.
    • After a half-length defeat in a Turfway Park allowance race, Sarava moved to McPeek's barn to prepare for a run at the classics.
    • David offers to massage her tense day away and Anna tries to move her hair to the side - and she could were she not wearing a half-length cut over her actual hair.
    1. 1.1 (of a painting or sculpture) showing a person down to their waist.
      (肖像,雕像)半身的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Most of his 60 or so known paintings, mainly half-length portraits, date from 1642-6 after he had moved with Charles I's Civil War court to Oxford.
      • Other highlights from the collection include a half-length cast bronze bust of George Bernard Shaw by Prince Paul Troubetskoy, signed and dated 1908.
      • The most visually startling images were two half-length portraits from her ‘Bodybuilders’ series.
      • Sari-clad women move behind, like a frieze, one with her back turned, just below a painted half-length figure.
      • Caravaggio returns to the half-length format of his early genre scenes, but all naturalistic bravura and illusionistic detail are gone.
noun
  • A painting or sculpture of a person down to their waist.

    (肖像,雕像)半身的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The presence, in the Gallery's reconstruction, of half-lengths of St Paul and, questionably, of St Andrew is hard to explain.
    • A life-size portrait, even if it is only a head or a half-length, always takes up more room than its intrinsic interest demands.
    • Anne Villiers herself was painted by van Dyck in a solo half-length.
    • These works are not compatible with the bulk of the corpus of Caravaggesque half-lengths that the English art historian Benedict Nicolson had associated first with an unnamed ‘Candlelight Master’ and then with Bigot.
    • Was young Gooch's half-length what the miniaturist copied?

Definition of half-length in US English:

half-length

adjectiveˌhafˈleNGTHˌhæfˈlɛŋθ
  • 1Of approximately half the normal length.

    全长的一半的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • After a half-length defeat in a Turfway Park allowance race, Sarava moved to McPeek's barn to prepare for a run at the classics.
    • David offers to massage her tense day away and Anna tries to move her hair to the side - and she could were she not wearing a half-length cut over her actual hair.
    • She changed into loose-fitting trousers, made from real cotton grown in one of the neighbouring villages, and a cotton top with half-length sleeves.
    • By the first 500-metre mark Germany had taken a half-length lead over the new United States line-up and Slovenia.
    • Three-quarter or half-length sleeves enhance the summer appeal of skirts and pants in fashion prints.
    1. 1.1 (of a painting or sculpture) showing a person down to the waist.
      (肖像,雕像)半身的
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Most of his 60 or so known paintings, mainly half-length portraits, date from 1642-6 after he had moved with Charles I's Civil War court to Oxford.
      • Caravaggio returns to the half-length format of his early genre scenes, but all naturalistic bravura and illusionistic detail are gone.
      • The most visually startling images were two half-length portraits from her ‘Bodybuilders’ series.
      • Other highlights from the collection include a half-length cast bronze bust of George Bernard Shaw by Prince Paul Troubetskoy, signed and dated 1908.
      • Sari-clad women move behind, like a frieze, one with her back turned, just below a painted half-length figure.
nounˌhafˈleNGTHˌhæfˈlɛŋθ
  • A painting or sculpture of a person down to the waist.

    (肖像,雕像)半身的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A life-size portrait, even if it is only a head or a half-length, always takes up more room than its intrinsic interest demands.
    • These works are not compatible with the bulk of the corpus of Caravaggesque half-lengths that the English art historian Benedict Nicolson had associated first with an unnamed ‘Candlelight Master’ and then with Bigot.
    • Anne Villiers herself was painted by van Dyck in a solo half-length.
    • The presence, in the Gallery's reconstruction, of half-lengths of St Paul and, questionably, of St Andrew is hard to explain.
    • Was young Gooch's half-length what the miniaturist copied?
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