semi

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/ˈsɛmi/

noun 5adv 1

Collocations

ADJ.

bottom, dated, foreign, lonely, regular

She felt semi-lonely at the party since most of her friends couldn't make it.

VERB + SEMI

built, drive, drives, driving

My father has been driving a semi across the country for twenty years.

SEMI + NOUN

', basis, truck

He drives a semi truck across the country for his job.

PREP.

in, in, on, until

He worked in semi-darkness for hours, trying to find his keys on the floor.

ADV.

physically

She was semi physically disabled after the accident but managed to return to work eventually.

Definitions

noun

A semi-detached house.

2008, Elliott Placks, quoted in Helen Isbister, Morris Bryant, Property, Career FAQs, Australia, page 40, I′m selling two side-by-side semis that are currently under construction, a waterfront apartment and a house in Rose Bay.

The smaller semis of the 1920s and 1930s were closely related to the three bedroom pre-1919 narrow fronted terraces, at least to the larger pre-1919 terraces.

A semi-trailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler; an artic.

I was hungry an' freezin' an' done caught a chill / When the lights of a big semi topped the hill

All night we couldn′t hear each other speak because of the sound of semis changing gear to get over the hill.

A semifinal.

A partial erection of the penis.

The twink got a semi just from that look.

A semiautomatic firearm.

See these niggas through the reticle sight up on my semi […] For niggas plottin', I might blow it at your fitted Get your bitch-ass slimed out, it ain't no kiddin' Ain't no kiddin', got that semi

adv

Somewhat; to some extent.

'Is that a serious question?' he asked. Ralph shrugged with his face, jutting out his bottom lip. 'Well ... semi,' he said.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a trailer having wheels only in the rear

semitrailer

noun — a truck consisting of a tractor and trailer together

noun — one of the two competitions in the next to the last round of

semifinal

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Wiktionary

The smaller semis of the 1920s and 1930s were closely related to the three bedroom pre-1919 narrow fronted terraces, at least to the larger pre-1919 terraces.

Wiktionary

The roads were lined with cramped little semis and 1960s bungalows: Britain's cheapest houses, in their flimsy, pebble-dashed glory.

Wiktionary

'Is that a serious question?' he asked. Ralph shrugged with his face, jutting out his bottom lip. 'Well ... semi,' he said.

Wiktionary

He lives in a house built in a semi foreign style.

Tatoeba · #304842

We dated on a semi regular basis until she moved to Australia.

Tatoeba · #4419763

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, semi is marked as informal, slang, UK, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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