It's just a half-inch thin and weighs just 1.5 pounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apple's iPad: Pros, cons, and toss-ups] Reference

Fig. 33 -- Section of half-inch board to represent ribs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

"Just an ordinary piece of half-inch cord," he remarked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Pirate] Reference

Choose sandals with a heel between a half-inch to an inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leora Tanenbaum: Take Off Those Flip-Flops! And 5 Other Essential Summer Shoe Tips] Reference

Wash and scrape the carrots and cut into half-inch pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables] Reference

Also, a backboard of half-inch board, to correspond (Fig. 14).    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference

PROFESSOR SMITH: You say a half-inch scion on a four-inch stock?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference

Put half-inch strips of paste across the top in the form of a lattice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 4: Salads and Sandwiches; Cold and Frozen Desserts; Cakes, Cookies and Puddings; Pastries and Pies] Reference

The showers consisted of three half-inch pipes suspended from the ceiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Delta of the Triple Elevens The History of Battery D, 311th Field Artillery US Army, American Expeditionary Forces] Reference

    Efrain is fourteen now; every time I see him he's grown a half-inch taller.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Intercom] Reference

They should make a half-inch notch in the measure for the first turn in the material.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference

The small end was a half-inch, perhaps, in bore, the big end perhaps three inches or less.    From Wordnik.com.  [Valley of the Croen] Reference

Upon inspection, it was found that three half-inch holes had been drilled into each pontoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope] Reference

A tack may then be put in on the outside of the gunwale; half-inch galvanized tacks will do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference

"Do I bore you?" asked the mosquito, politely, as he sunk a half-inch shaft into the man's leg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Pun Book] Reference

In two of them drill numerous half-inch diameter holes from bottom to top and in the lid as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

There was a board on my back, about a half-inch thick, so the Roman soldiers wouldn't hit my back.    From Wordnik.com.  [INTERVIEW: 'YOU WANT ME TO PLAY JESUS?'] Reference

Stripped one right off, though, trying to turn in the mud; fastened on with half-inch spikes, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day] Reference

After the bed has borne a little while it is top-dressed all over with a half-inch layer of fine soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure] Reference

When ready to use cut in half-inch slices and then into stars or any fancy shape preferred, or into dice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Age Cook Book] Reference

But before you take any corrective action, raise the cutting height on your mower one notch or a half-inch.    From Wordnik.com.  [A summertime tune-up for your yard] Reference

He produced this from half-inch tape to acetate vinyl, which essentially means it's a horrible sounding record.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Breeders' Scrappy 'Mountain Battle'] Reference

The middle of it he can bend through half a circle, the last half-inch he can wrap completely round a cornstalk.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference

His schedule -- bookstore signings, readings, interviews -- is a half-inch thick, and he's booked through April 1998.    From Wordnik.com.  [From 'Ashes' To Stardom] Reference

The tires were barely adequate for this kind of riding — another half-inch in width would have made me feel better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sin City Skinflint, day 2: More of Interbike’s (somewhat) affordable bikes] Reference

And Carla likes it crunchy, so she carefully slices the green outer part of the zucchini, about a half-inch thickness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Challenge For A Top Chef: Make Sardines Tasty] Reference

Mix with the force-meat tongue, truffles, and pistachio-nuts or olives, all cut into half-inch dice (the tongue larger).    From Wordnik.com.  [Choice Cookery] Reference

Make a stretcher (Fig. 13) for the feet, of half-inch board, and slips to fit it into (Fig. 10), with stops on the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887] Reference

The mailing list puts you in touch with other fanatics, and answers to FAQs tell you where to order silk half-inch ribbons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Qwerty] Reference

Among the Sony sets in our labs is the KLV-40ZX1M, an ultra-thin (about a half-inch thick) model with edge-mounted LED backlights.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the CR test labs: New LCD TVs] Reference

A few more details announced by Steve Jobs this morning: The iPad is a half-inch thick (same as the iPhone), and weighs 1.5 pounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The iPad hardware] Reference

Yet you could take a half-inch rope and with your own hands turn the great ship completely around by pulling steadily and patiently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference

NED WHARTON: The list of Grammy nominees runs about a half-inch thick, and buried about 30 pages in are competitors for best Banda album.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grammy's Hidden Surprises] Reference

Even after being incorporated into one hot compost heap after another, half-inch diameter twigs may take several years to fully decompose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference