Cases of word usage

1) a black-headed note with a stem, half of a minim (US = quarter note) (crotchet)

2) to divide (something) into two equal parts; to lessen (something) by one half (halve)

3) of half (halves)

4) a half of a sphere; a half of the Earth (hemisphere)

5) a large metal drum like half a ball (kettledrum)

6) (either half of) an imaginary line round the earth, passing through the north and south poles, as used on maps (meridian)

7) a note with half the value of a semibreve (minim)

8) a trembling sound; a note with half the value of a crotchet; (of the voice or a sound) to shake; tremble (quaver)

9) (in Greek and Roman myth) a god of the woods, half man and half animal (satyr)

10) half of; partly; midway (semi-)