Definitions for half-step

half-step half step

Half-Step is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 391 anagrams from letters in half-step (-aefhlpst).

Definitions for half-step

noun

  1. Music. semitone.
  2. Military. a step 15 inches (38 cm) long in quick time and 18 inches (46 cm) long in double time.

Origin of half-step

First recorded in 1900-05

Examples for half-step

Johnnie took a half-step forward, when Hull pressed him back.

The steel robot took a half-step toward him, and Burckhardt involuntarily checked his stride.

Melodies are often semi-sung chants, or rely heavily on repeated notes and small step and half-step intervals.

He makes a half-step towards the burly mass of flesh, still shaking with laughter.

He turned around with incredible speed and took a half-step in our direction.

To the ear of the author the pitch varies through an interval somewhat less than a half-step.

The interval between the two tones may therefore be either a half-step or a whole-step.

We have also just seen that in order to represent the trot the marcher at the back had to anticipate by a half-step.

It is necessary to adopt here another method of looking at it, and to regard the preceding as being but a half-step.

The half-step is usually defined as "the smallest usable interval between two tones."

Word Value for half-step
Scrable

10

Words with friends

10

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