Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To divide into two parts or branches.
- v. To separate into two parts or branches; fork.
- adj. Forked or divided into two parts or branches, as the Y-shaped styles of certain flowers.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To divide into two forks or branches.
- Two-forked; divided into two branches.
Wiktionary
- adj. Divided or forked into two; bifurcated.
- adj. Having bifurcations.
- v. To divide or fork into two channels or branches.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Two-pronged; forked.
- adj. divided into or made up of two parts.
- v. To divide into two branches.
WordNet 3.0
- v. divide into two branches
- adj. resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches
- v. split or divide into two
Etymologies
- From Latin bifurcātus. (Wiktionary)
- Medieval Latin bifurcāre, bifurcāt-, to divide, from Latin bifurcus, two-pronged : bi-, two; see bi-1 + furca, fork. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Jan seems to think that using the word bifurcate makes it more intelligent to say that you have to try to implement your church doctrine exactly without comprimise in the political world.”
“_ -- Most discussions of classification make reference to the so-called bifurcate scheme of division as the only one by which exhaustive division can be surely achieved.”
“Where would Jelinsky see 'bifurcate' in the course of the negotiations?”
“Well, what we try to do is, I'm going to say, we kind of bifurcate cash as you look at the business is going to generate more cash.”
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“I'll kind of bifurcate our portfolio by emerging markets and then established markets because that's how we really look at it.”
“Steve, if you were to kind of bifurcate the Mimi's store base could you give us an idea of what the costs look like outside of those four markets?”
“bifurcate" the area between the 88 acres and cell 7, officially removing the 88 acres from the landfill's operating area.”
“Without mentioning any names, I don't know if it's possible to bifurcate the examination of a review into separate questions of style and content, neglecting one to address the other.”
“Voices are also emerging from Balochistan to bifurcate the province on ethnic lines.”
The Huffington Post: Saad Khan: Amid Violence, Pakistanis Debate New Provinces
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GRE 2014
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Undo
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