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half-empty

adj
(of a vessel, place, etc) holding or containing half its capacity
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half-empty

[ˈhɑːfˈemptɪ] ADJ [bottle, box, room, train] → medio vacío; [hall etc] → semidesierto
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References in classic literature ?
He looked at the fire of logs, with its one flame pirouetting on the top in a dying dance after the breakfast-cooking and boiling, and it seemed to jig to his inward tune; also at the two chimney crooks dangling down from the cotterel or cross-bar, plumed with soot which quivered to the same melody; also at the half-empty kettle whining an accompaniment.
She dropped her iron on the shirtwaist, clutched at the board, fumbled it, caved in at the knees and hips, and like a half-empty sack collapsed on the floor, her long shriek rising in the pent room to the acrid smell of scorching cloth.
Seated side by side on a bench of the half-empty boat they found that they had hardly anything to say to each other, or rather that what they had to say communicated itself best in the blessed silence of their release and their isolation.
Lawrence sat with his elbow on the table, carelessly playing with his half-empty wine-glass, and covertly smiling to himself.
The plank floor was littered with the belongings of the white men; open half-empty boxes, torn wearing apparel, old boots; all the things dirty, and all the things broken, that accumulate mysteriously round untidy men.
Our clothes were mended, turned, and darned to the utmost verge of decency; our food, always plain, was now simplified to an unprecedented degree--except my father's favourite dishes; our coals and candles were painfully economized--the pair of candles reduced to one, and that most sparingly used; the coals carefully husbanded in the half-empty grate: especially when my father was out on his parish duties, or confined to bed through illness--then we sat with our feet on the fender, scraping the perishing embers together from time to time, and occasionally adding a slight scattering of the dust and fragments of coal, just to keep them alive.
Marty, the eldest, was a baby when she first came to the farm, for the children born before him had died, and so Hetty had had them all three, one after the other, toddling by her side in the meadow, or playing about her on wet days in the half-empty rooms of the large old house.
And he insists his players are more than used to dealing with half-empty stadiums and a lack of atmosphere.
Despite the half-empty room a spokesperson for AB Production countered claims that the venue was half-empty and told MailOnline that the theatre was 'fuller' once the show started.
Plans to move traders in changes to half-empty Queensgate Market They should turn the hall into an indoor ice skating rink with other amusements to attract people back to the town centre and turn empty shops on the Piazza into restaurants.
It is often easier to see a glass half-empty rather than half-full.