English

Noun

Lua error in Module:links at line 89: attempt to index local 'target' (a number value)

1. (Britain, Ireland, Australia, Canada) A semi-detached house.
   • 2008, Elliott Placks, quoted in Helen Isbister, Morris Bryant, Property, Career FAQs, Australia, page 40,

     I′m selling two side-by-side semis that are currently under construction, a waterfront apartment and a house in Rose Bay.

   • 2008, Barry Goodchild, Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods: Planning and the Residential Landscapes of Modern Britain, page 52,

     The smaller semis of the 1920s and 1930s were closely related to the three bedroom pre-1919 narrow fronted terraces, at least to the larger pre-1919 terraces.

2. (US) A semitrailer; a tractor-trailer; an eighteen-wheeler.
   • 2011, Eamonn Duff, Schapelle Corby: The Untold Story Behind Her Ill-Fated Drug Run, Allen & Unwin, Australia, unnumbered page,

     All night we couldn′t hear each other speak because of the sound of semis changing gear to get over the hill.

3. A semifinal.
4. (slang) A partial erection.
   • 2010, Mickey Erlach, Video Boys (page 158)

     The twink got a semi just from that look.

Translations

Anagrams

• MSIE

Italian

Noun

Lua error in Module:links at line 89: attempt to index local 'target' (a number value)

1. plural of seme

Anagrams

• mesi, mise

Japanese

Romanization

Lua error in Module:links at line 89: attempt to index local 'target' (a number value)

1. rōmaji reading of せみ
2. rōmaji reading of セミ

Swedish

Noun

Lua error in Module:links at line 89: attempt to index local 'target' (a number value)

1. short for semifinal

Declension

Venetian

Adjective

Lua error in Module:links at line 89: attempt to index local 'target' (a number value)

1. masculine plural of semo