HyperDic: half-staff

English > 1 sense of the word *half-staff*:
NOUN	location	half-staff, half-mast	a position some distance below the top of a mast / mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress

English > *half-staff*: 1 sense > noun 1, location
Meaning	A position some distance below the top of a mast / mast to which a flag is lowered in mourning or to signal distress.
Synonym	half-mast
Broader	position, place	The particular portion of space occupied by something
Catalan	mig pal