HALFPENNIES Synonyms: 98 Similar and Opposite Words

halfpence

noun

variants or halfpennies

plural of halfpenny

as in ounces

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Noun

Reduce the heat to low and add the 2 ounces of Ponzu Butter Sauce.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Aug. 2026
The average person loses up to 32 ounces of water while sleeping through skin evaporation and sweat.

— Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of ounces

Noun

Archaeobotanists find various parts of plants, including seeds, chaff, fruit pits, nutshells and cobs.

— Alexandria Mitchem Hansen, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025
And these nutshells that are now all restored have been used for that purpose for more than eight decades.

— Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2025

Definition of nutshells

Noun

Protecting pilot vision A nuclear weapon produces an intense burst of thermal and visible light within fractions of a second after detonation.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 7 Aug. 2026
First, Chinese inference providers keep pushing per-token costs down toward fractions of a cent, which is not only about winning customers away from US providers.

— Ashish Bhatia, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of fractions

Noun

The soup itself has an almost lemon curd-like acidity and sweetness, and it’s laced with flecks of fresh corn and tiny diced pieces of zucchini.

— Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 19 Aug. 2026
Amid his vast responsibilities running all the departments in the Giants’ front office, Zaidi still found the time to pore over MLB Draft League statistics and look for flecks of gold.

— Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of flecks

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That system includes the vacuum chamber, lasers, and electronic controls needed to manipulate the atoms.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 27 Aug. 2026
The early quantum pioneers didn’t realize — at first — that the arcane math that strikingly captured the conduct of atoms had left the real world behind.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of atoms

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Hilton rejects the argument floated by some of his former colleagues that his scruples became a casualty of his ambition.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Still, there are some smart, well-meaning voices of caution who warn Democrats against forgetting their scruples.

— Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026

Definition of scruples

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Bex Claire Hamell, a houseplant educator and award-winning horticulturist, looks for common pests, including mealybugs, scale, thrips, aphids, and mites, and meticulously treats plants with visible infestations.

— Rachel Gillett, Martha Stewart, 25 Aug. 2026
That figure excludes the fungi, the microscopic mites and the viruses that infect the bacteria themselves.

— Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of mites

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