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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To cut or divide into two parts, especially two equal parts.
  • intransitive verb To split; fork.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To cut or divide into two parts; specifically, in geometry, to cut or divide into two equal parts.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To cut or divide into two parts.
  • transitive verb (Geom.) To divide into two equal parts.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb To cut or divide into two parts.
  • verb geometry To divide an angle, line segment, or other figure into two equal parts.
  • noun geometry A bisector, which divides into two equal parts.
  • noun philately An envelope, card, or fragment thereof showing an affixed cut half of a regular issued stamp, over which one or more postal markings have been applied. Typically used in wartime when normal lower rate stamps may not be available.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb cut in half or cut in two

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  • In stamp collecting, a stamp cut or perforated into two parts, each half representing half the face value of the original stamp. Officially, authorized bisects have often been used during temporary shortages of commonly used denominations. Unauthorized bisects appear frequently on mail from some countries in some periods. Bisects are usually collected on full cover with the stamp tied by a cancel. At times, some countries have permitted trisects or quadrisects.

    August 25, 2008

  • climbers tarry, stop

    then wait.

    cherried leaves lift, tilt, by chilled wind vibrate

    before soundless form and senseless weight.

    grey eyes ask and green reflect

    the shifting feet, distraught, caught

    rock and void, soil lost in puff and gasp and laugh bisect.

    hope is naught, closed lips don't see.

    growing gaping flying lost.

    moss is left, a life the cost.

    free.

    - Gordon Farrer, a not unhappy ending.

    May 12, 2009