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half-opened

American  
[haf oh-puhnd] / ˈhæf ˈoʊ pənd /

adjective

  1. partly open; open, but not all the way.


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On a Minetta Lane Theater stage strewn with hand sanitizer, discarded masks and half-opened Amazon delivery boxes, Elizabeth Marvel, as Mary, fell apart grandly, while Bill Camp offered a wickedly funny James Tyrone — self-absorbed, self-flagellating, but more than anything, colossally bored.

From New York Times

Similar thefts appeared to take place in the small town of Vye Terre near Les Cayes, where a second AP photographer witnessed a group of men pulling large sacks from a half-opened container truck.

From Seattle Times

Thanks to a confluence of the pandemic, wildfires and storms, Yosemite National Park has been half-opened and half-closed for the better part of a year.

From New York Times

A liquor store in Sag Harbor, another Hamptons town, is selling cases of wine and spirits through a half-opened door.

From New York Times

The hinge is a massive improvement over earlier foldables The second thing is that Samsung explains that hinge stiffness by pointing out that you can set the phone down on a table half-opened like an itty-bitty laptop.

From The Verge