HALFPENNY Synonyms: 98 Similar and Opposite Words

halfpenny

noun

Definition of halfpenny

as in ounce

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Recent Examples of halfpenny Indeed, in 2023, his music earned him just shy of $200,000, about one halfpenny at a time. — Brett Martin, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024 In nineteenth-century England, tailors would place old halfpennies in the pockets of a man’s new suit for good luck. — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023 The cost of providing the training, closing the stores and any loss of sales due to boycotting customers won’t show up until the fiscal third quarter when William Blair estimates up to a halfpenny penalty to earnings per share. — Julie Jargon, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018

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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
McCallum hit the water and pushed himself toward his niece, using every ounce of his energy to get to her, before the current pulled him under and swept him away.

— Julianna Bragg, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of ounce

Noun

Hundreds of thousands of packages have already been delivered by Amazon drones this year, but even after this expansion drones will still only handle a fraction of the hundreds of millions of package deliveries each year.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
But some schools only have a fraction of the students they were built to accommodate.

— James Taylor, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of fraction

Noun

When Ava runs off to the bathroom, Deborah instinctively reaches for her notebook and jots down another idea.

— Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 29 May 2026
Sometimes the import agent or the customs official jots down the wrong product code, the wrong tariff rate, or the wrong number of units.

— Robert Goulder, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2026

Definition of jot

Noun

Satin, a fabric that gives the classic shoe a pretty sheen and just a smidge more personality.

— Iman Balagam, InStyle, 18 Aug. 2026
Even though his account has only a smidge more than 13,000 followers, the social media behemoth boosted the auction to other TikTokers.

— Andrew Zucker, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of smidgen

Noun

To avoid this, scientists are now building nuclear clocks that go a level deeper into the atom and use the energy flips of a neutron inside the nucleus to track time.

— Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 21 Aug. 2026
Plus, such atoms could be embedded protectively in a crystal.

— Jacek Krywko, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of atom

Noun

This is a kenning that evokes a natural transition to darkness and also an unfinished human endeavor.

— Jonah Walters, Longreads, 24 Oct. 2024
Most of the writers attempting to imitate Tolkien weren’t steeped in the rhythm of Old English kennings, or the spiritual yearning of chivalric romance.

— Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023

Definition of kenning

Noun

That buy-in proves essential to a movie whose premise requires you to suspend every iota of your disbelief, lest its Lanthimos-lite approach to child abduction curdle into something much darker.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 17 July 2026
Every iota of data about a prospect, then, becomes pregnant with meaning.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 4 June 2026

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