Definitions
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 ordivide into two parts. - verb geometry To divide an
angle ,line segment , or other figure into twoequal 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 issuedstamp , over which one or morepostal markings have been applied. Typically used inwartime 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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Examples
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And to use it, you create a haystack that is a mylist object, then pass it to a recursive function that'll call bisect () def chop_bisect_object (needle, haystack): while True: head, tail = haystack. bisect () try: if needle
Planet Python 2009
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And to use it, you create a haystack that is a mylist object, then pass it to a recursive function that'll call bisect () def chop_bisect_object (needle, haystack): while True: head, tail = haystack. bisect () try: if needle
Planet Python 2009
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All the Egyptians or whoever would need is 25 miles to bisect the country.
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France is going to cop another pounding as (from my reading) the Iron Curtain will bisect La Belle France.
Cheeseburger Gothic » The Union of European Socialist Republics. 2010
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All the Egyptians or whoever would need is 25 miles to bisect the country.
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I don't see painting/video/dance/graphics etc as pigeon holes they all bisect each other.
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Between Central Station down near the River Clyde and sloping up towards Sauchiehall Street lies half a square mile of a dozen streets that meet and bisect each other in a grid of Georgian architectural splendour.
Shine a light on Glasgow's seedy side streets | Kevin McKenna 2011
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Mathematics tends to bisect people into either fascination or annoyance.
Take A Second Shot At Understanding Maths | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Tribal leaders say the road, which is in the early stages of construction, would bisect their reservation in Bolivia's eastern Amazon lowlands.
Indian Protests Spur Bolivia Crisis Martin Arostegui 2011
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The 500,000th signature, appropriately, was from a Nebraskan, pointing out that the only independent study of the pipeline that would bisect her state showed it would yield a paltry 1400 temporary jobs, not the bonanza big oil keeps promising.
Bill McKibben: Over 600,000 Messages Against Keystone XL Flood the Senate Bill McKibben 2012
reesetee commented on the word bisect
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
bilby commented on the word bisect
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