"Semi-" is a word in ENGLISH
A prefix signifying half, and sometimes partly or imperfectly;
as, semiannual, half yearly; semitransparent, imperfectly transparent.
Everyone knows that border across which he cannot go, even in thought, and it is that, not the former, that people automatically shut out and cannot face. Yet one knows at times (in the middle of the night, perhaps, when one is sleepless, or on encountering some revolting experience) that this horror haunts every form of experience (always and ever), and hastily one readjusts the blinkers that had slipped. Put the beautiful before you and the horror behind you. Yes, but then I shall not dare to turn round.The world is a bad place. Is it? But it seems that this haunting, this self-delusion by wearing blinkers, is not an attribute of the world. The haunting is in consciousness itself, in its very nature. Just as when I set up any object in the sunlight a shadow is cast (because it is the nature of sunlight to cast shadows), so anything that comes into the light of consciousness casts a shadow of the unknown. It is in the unknown that the horror resides in the dark of knowledge where the patterns can no longer be traced, where chaos resides, and whence utterly hostile systems may emerge, devour, and digest us.
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Two hunters got a pilot to fly them into the far north for elk hunting. They were quite successful in their venture and bagged six big bucks. The pilot came back, as arranged, to pick them up. They started loading their gear into the plane, including the six elk. But the pilot objected and he said, "The plane can only take four of your elk; you will have to leave two behind." They argued with him; the year before they had shot six and the pilot had allowed them to put all aboard. The plane was the same model and capacity. Reluctantly, the pilot finally permitted them to put all six aboard. But when the attempted to take off and leave the valley, the little plane could not make it and they crashed into the wilderness. Climbing out of the wreckage, one hunter said to the other, "Do you know where we are?" "I think so," replied the other hunter. I think this is about the same place where we landed last year!"
An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.
Read the complete definitionIn an equal part or degree; in some pa/ appro/mating a half; partially; imperfectly; as, half-colored, half done, half-hearted, half …
Read the complete definitionConsisting of some indefinite portion resembling a half; approximately a half, whether more or less; partial; imperfect; as, a half …
Read the complete definitionImperfectly acquainted with the rules of good-breeding; not well trained.
Read the complete definitionImperfectly hatched; as, half-hatched eggs.
Read the complete definitionImperfectly or partly heard to the end.
Read the complete definitionImperfectly learned.
Read the complete definitionSeeing imperfectly; having weak discernment.
Read the complete definitionHalf-bred; imperfect.
Read the complete definitionIn the middle; at half the distance; imperfectly; partially; as, he halfway yielded.
Read the complete definitionHalf compact; imperfectly indurated.
Read the complete definitionHalf conscious; imperfectly conscious.
Read the complete definitionHalf or imperfect transparency; translucency.
Read the complete definitionHalf or imperfectly transparent; translucent.
Read the complete definitionA half form; an imperfect form.
Read the complete definitionHalf formed; imperfectly formed; as, semiformed crystals.
Read the complete definitionHalf lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens.
Read the complete definitionHalf clear, or imperfectly transparent; as, a semipellucid gem.
Read the complete definitionHalf transparent; imperfectly clear; semipellucid.
Read the complete definitionHalf or imperfectly transparent.
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