WordNet
- get better; "The weather improved toward evening" (同)improve, ameliorate, meliorate
- to make better; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" (同)improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
- more than half; "argued for the better part of an hour"
- something superior in quality or condition or effect; "a change for the better"
- the superior one of two alternatives; "chose the better of the two"
- a superior person having claim to precedence; "the common man has been kept in his place by his betters"
- (comparative and superlative of `well' (同)best
- from a position of superiority or authority; "father knows best"; "I know better." (同)best
- surpass in excellence; "She bettered her own record"; "break a record" (同)break
- (comparative of `good'
- comparative of `well; in a better or more excellent manner or more advantageously or attractively or to a greater degree etc.; "She had never sung better"; "a deed better left undone"; "better suited to the job"
- partially or to the extent of a half; "he was half hidden by the bushes"
- one of two divisions into which some games or performances are divided: the two divisions are separated by an interval
- (of siblings) related through one parent only; "a half brother"; "half sister"
- consisting of one of two equivalent parts in value or quantity; "a half chicken"; "lasted a half hour"
- partial; "gave me a half smile"; "he did only a half job"
- changing for the better
PrepTutorEJDIC
- よき伴侶(はんしょ),妻
- (『good』 の比較級;最上級は 『best』)『いっそうよい』,もっとすぐれた / (『well』の比効級;最上級は『best』)《補語にのみ用いて》(健康が)『いっそうよい』,(病気が)前よりよい,快方に向かって / (量・距離・時間などが)『もっと多い』 / (…より)『いっそうよく』 / (程度・時間・距離などが)『もっと多く』;(…より)いっそう多く《+『than』…》 / いっそうよい人(物,事) / 《複数形で》一段とすぐれた人々;目上の人,先輩 / …'を'改善(改良)する,向上させる / …'を'しのぐ,負かす
- 〈C〉〈U〉『半分』,2分の1;約半分 / 〈U〉《時刻を表す数詞と共に用いて》『半』,30分 / 〈C〉《おもに英》(2学期制の学校での)前(後)期 / 〈C〉(競技などの)前(後)半;(野球で1イニングの)表(裏) / 〈C〉=halfback / 『半分の』 / 不十分な,中途はんぱな / 『半ば』,半分[だけ] / 半時間だけ,30分だけ / 不完全に / かなり,ほとんど
- おや,はああ,ああ(驚き・喜び・疑い・ためらいなどを表す声)
- hectare; hectares
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Better half is a euphemism for one's spouse in marriage.
Better half, my better half, or the better half or Better Halves may refer to:
Contents
- 1 Film and TV
- 2 Technology
- 3 Comics
- 4 Theatre
- 5 Music
- 6 See also
Film and TV
- Better Halves (film), 1916 film with Oliver Hardy
TV
- "Better Half" (House), the ninth episode of the eighth season of the American television medical drama series House
- "The Better Half", episode 9 of Mad Men
- Better Halves (Heroes)
- Better Halves (TV series), a TVB costume television series, premiered in 2003
- Better Halves List of Burn Notice episodes, 2011
- Better Half (Sons of Anarchy), 2008 episode of Sons of Anarchy
Technology
- Better Half VW, an American aircraft engine design
Comics
- The Better Half, comic strip
Theatre
- The Better Half (play), one-act play by Noël Coward first performed in 1922
Music
- My Better Half, a 2006 album by Tim Rogers and Tex Perkins
Songs
- "My Better Half", song by Bobby Braddock 1976, covered by Del Reeves 1976
- "You're My Better Half", a 2004 song co-written and recorded by Australian country music artist Keith Urban
See also
- The Other Half (disambiguation)
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Japanese Journal
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- Neurologia medico-chirurgica 55(1), 71-76, 2015
- … The protrusion of VC and the paraclival carotid artery to the sphenoid sinus, as well as well-pneumatization of the sinus is also observed more frequently in almost a half of the population. … The characteristics particular to Japanese populations may facilitate better identification of VC and exposure to AGPCA intraoperatively. …
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- Validity and Reliability of Stillbirth Data Using Linked Self-Reported and Administrative Datasets
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- Journal of Epidemiology 25(1), 30-37, 2015
- … The administrative datasets performed better than self-reported data, with high accuracy and agreement. … About half of the misreported cases in the ALSWH were able to be removed by identifying inconsistencies in longitudinal data.<BR>Conclusions: Data linkage provides great opportunity to assess the validity and reliability of self-reported study data. …
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- Interference Alignment in Two-Cell LTE-Advanced Heterogeneous Networks
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- IEICE Transactions on Communications E98.B(1), 126-133, 2015
- … We assume that the relay works in an amplify-and-forward (AF) mode with a half-duplex and MIMO relaying. … Simulation results show that the proposed alignment scheme can achieve a better DoF performance. …
- NAID 130004841592
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- better half n. Informal One's spouse. [Ultimately translation of such phrases in Latin poety as animae dīmidium meae, half of my soul (referring to the poet's friend).] better half n 1. one's spouse bet′ter half′ n. Informal. a person's ...
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