Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Music Again; twice. Used as a direction to repeat a passage.
- interj. Used to request an additional performance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Twice. In accounts, tabular statements, books, etc., used to denote a duplicate or repetition of an item or number or page: as, p. 10 bis.
Wiktionary
- n. Plural form of bi.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Twice; -- a word showing that something is, or is to be, repeated; as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.
Etymologies
- French or Italian, both from Latin; see dwo- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“V. 42bis (the "bis" is French for "enhanced") is a data compression addition to the V. 42 feature.”
“Berg explains that the compound used in most sealants today is called bis-GMA, a product that derives from both BPA and BPA-GMA but has different properties.”
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“For the twelve months of the sun contain three hundred and sixty-five and a quarter days, and so because the quarter becomes a whole, in four years an extra day is completed, which is called bis-sextile.”
“It is somewhat curious that where we use the French word _encore_, the French audiences use the Latin word "bis.”
“Check our other glow stick videos too: www. youtube.com www. youtube.com Finally, how to make TCPO: www. youtube.com The glowstick reaction is made using a diphenyl oxalate derivative known as bis (2,4,6-trichlorophenyl) oxalate or TCPO.”
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“Montag bis Freitag: kompakt, sachlich, international”
“Montag bis Freitag: Artikel, Themen & Fakten zum Nachlesen. kompakt, sachlich, international”
“(CTI) (Nasdaq and MTA: CTIC) announced today that its new class of platinum-based anti-tumor compounds, termed bis-platinates, demonstrated a stronger anti-tumor potency and activity compared to currently available platinum-based compounds as well as the ability to overcome cisplatin-resistance in cancer cell lines.”
“Christine: "bis - in Spanish and French cities, an address (street number) followed by" bis "refers to a second dwelling on the same street but located behind or aside the dwelling originally carrying that street number" (-- from Wikipedia)”
“It looks like the term biscuit comes from the French "bis" "cuit" or "twice cooked" ... which works for both sweet and savory varieties.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bis’.
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phrontistery - b
List of words from phrontistery.info
bywoner, byssus, byssiferous, byssaceous, byrnie, butyric, butyraceous, buttery, buteonine, bunting, burdet, broma and 582 more...
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Palabras de 3 letras en Español.
¡La única lista que también incluye flexiónes verbales y pluralizaciones! Ayúdame a encontrarlas todas.
(Por ser una lista para Scrabble, los dígrafos ll, rr, y ch valen como una sola ...aba, aca, aga, ahe, ahi, aho, aja, aje, aji, ajo, ala, ale and 427 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Pop Latin
Commonly used Latin expressions
viva voce, vide supre, vide, supra, stet, status quo, sine qua non, sine die, sic, quid pro quo, pro rata, pro bono and 24 more...
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Key
clef, coda, notch, keys, vent, bis, the key, chord, sense, cllee, flame, eden
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Way~Wordie... . .
Didactic and likely fallible tracking of secretive nomadic language Zincali gypsy.
abatico, abelar, abertune, aberucar, abicholar, abillelar, abri, acaba, acana, acarar, acatan, achibes and 418 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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