<B>semiadherent, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) having the lower half adherent, as a seed. </DL>
<A NAME="semiagricultural">
<B>semiagricultural, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> not completely agricultural. </DL>
<A NAME="semiaircooled">
<B>semiair-cooled, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> partially but not entirely air-cooled. </DL>
<A NAME="semiamateur">
<B>semiamateur, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>not playing a sport for money but supported in part by a sponsor. <DD><B> 2. </B>partly amateur. <BR> <I>Ex. The Chelsea Opera Group performance ... is a substantial undertaking for a semiamateur group of this kind (Financial Times).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a semiamateur athelete. </DL>
<A NAME="semiangle">
<B>semiangle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the half of a given or measuring angle. </DL>
<A NAME="semiannual">
<B>semiannual, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>occurring every half year. <DD><B> 2. </B>lasting a half year. <BR> <I>Ex. a semiannual plant.</I> adv. <B>semiannually.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="semiannular">
<B>semiannular, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> forming a half circle; semicircular. </DL>
<A NAME="semianthracite">
<B>semianthracite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a coal intermediate between anthracite and bituminous coal. It is softer and more volatile than anthracite. </DL>
<A NAME="semiaquatic">
<B>semiaquatic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> partly aquatic; growing or living close to water, and sometimes found in water. </DL>
<A NAME="semiarc">
<B>semiarc, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> half an arc. </DL>
<A NAME="semiarch">
<B>semiarch, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Architecture.) half an arch. </DL>
<A NAME="semiarid">
<B>semiarid, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having very little rainfall. </DL>
<A NAME="semiaridity">
<B>semiaridity, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> semiarid nature or condition. </DL>
<A NAME="semiatheist">
<B>semiatheist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a partial adherent of the tenets or theories of atheism. </DL>
<A NAME="semiattached">
<B>semiattached, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>partially attached or united. <BR> <I>Ex. a semiattached house.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>partially bound by affection, interest, or special preference of any kind. </DL>
<B>semiautomatic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>partly automatic; self-acting in some part of its operation. <DD><B> 2. </B>capable of or designed for ejecting the empty cartridge and loading the next cartridge by an automatic mechanism, but requiring a press of the trigger to fire each shot; self-loading. <BR> <I>Ex. a semiautomatic firearm.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a semiautomatic firearm. adv. <B>semiautomatically.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="semiautonomous">
<B>semiautonomous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> not completely self-governing. </DL>
<B>semibay, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Architecture.) half a bay. </DL>
<A NAME="semiblind">
<B>semiblind, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> partly blind. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) Once it happ'd that, semiblind, he [love] met thee on a summer day (Thomas Hood).</I> </DL>
<B>semicell, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in a certain green algae) one of the halves of a desmid cell. </DL>
<A NAME="semicentenary">
<B>semicentenary, </B>noun, pl. <B>-naries,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a fiftieth anniversary. <DD><I>adj. </I> having to do with a period of fifty years. </DL>
<A NAME="semicentennial">
<B>semicentennial, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> occurring at the end of fifty years; celebrating the completion of fifty years, or half a century. <BR> <I>Ex. a semicentennial celebration.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a fiftieth anniversary or the celebration of this. </DL>
<A NAME="semicentury">
<B>semicentury, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> half a century; fifty years. </DL>
<A NAME="semicha">
<B>semicha, </B>noun, pl. <B>-chas,</B> <B>-choth.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Judaism.) <DD><B> 1. </B>ordination into the rabbinate. <DD><B> 2. </B>the certificate or diploma of an ordained rabbi. </DL>
<B>semichoric, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or of the nature of a semichorus. </DL>
<A NAME="semichorus">
<B>semichorus, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a half chorus; a number of voices chosen from a full chorus, whether from all or from some of the parts. <DD><B> 2. </B>a passage or piece to be sung by such a selection of voices. </DL>
<B>semicircle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the half of a circle: <DD><B> a. </B>either of the two identical figures formed by bisection of a circle. <DD><B> b. </B>the arc formed by half the circumference of a circle. <DD><B> 2. </B>anything having, or arranged in, the form of half a circle. <BR> <I>Ex. We sat in a semicircle around the fire.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="semicircular">
<B>semicircular, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having the form of half a circle. adv. <B>semicircularly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="semicircularcanal">
<B>semicircular canal,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of three curved, tubelike canals in the inner ear that help to maintain balance. </DL>
<A NAME="semicircumference">
<B>semicircumference, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the half of a circumference. </DL>
<A NAME="semicirque">
<B>semicirque, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Poetic.) a semicircular formation or arrangement; semicircle. <BR> <I>Ex. Upon a semicirque of turf-clad ground (Wordsworth).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="semicivilization">
<B>semicivilization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the state of being partly civilized. </DL>
<B>semiclassic, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=semiclassical.</B> <DD><I>noun </I> an artistic work based on classical motives; a semiclassical book, musical composition, or the like. </DL>
<B>semicolon, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a mark of punctuation that shows a separation not so complete as that shown by a period but more so than that shown by a comma. A semicolon is used in ordinaryprose, especially: <DD><B> a. </B>between coordinate clauses not connected by a coordinating conjunction and for clarity. <BR> <I>Ex. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops (Henry Brooks Adams).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>between sentence elements that are rather long or are subdivided by commas. <BR> <I>Ex. A fundamental, and as many believe, the most essential part of Christianity, is its doctrine of reward and punishment in the world beyond; and a religion which had nothing at all to say about this great enigma we should hardly feel to be a religion at all (G. Lowes Dickinson).</I> </DL>
<B>semicolumn, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the half of a column (taken lengthwise); an engaged column of which one half projects from the wall. </DL>
<A NAME="semicolumnar">
<B>semicolumnar, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like a semicolumn; flat on one side and rounded on the other, as a stem, leaf, or petiole. </DL>
<A NAME="semicoma">
<B>semicoma, </B>noun, pl. <B>-mas.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a partial coma. </DL>
<A NAME="semicomatose">
<B>semicomatose, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> partly unconscious. <BR> <I>Ex. She complained of ... headache, became semicomatose ... (A. M. Hamilton).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="semicomic">
<B>semicomic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> partly comical. <BR> <I>Ex. He looked semitragic, semicomic, like a mask with two sides (Lady Morgan).</I> </DL>
<B>semiconducting, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, being, or designating a semiconductor. <BR> <I>Ex. Transistors and solar batteries are semiconducting devices.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="semiconduction">
<B>semiconduction, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the transmission of electricity by a semiconductor. </DL>
<B>semiconductor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a mineral substance, such as germanium or silicon, that conducts electricity with an efficiency between that of metals and insulators. Semiconductors can convert alternating current into direct current and sunlight into electricity. They are also used as amplifiers replacing vacuum tubes in radios, and in certain electronic instruments. </DL>
