Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To cut or divide into two parts, especially two equal parts.
- v. To split; fork.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To cut or divide into two parts; specifically, in geometry, to cut or divide into two equal parts. One line bisects another when it crosses it, leaving an equal part of the line on each side of the point of intersection.
Wiktionary
- v. To cut or divide into two parts.
- v. To divide an angle, line segment, or other figure into two equal parts.
- n. A bisector, which divides into two equal parts.
- n. 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To cut or divide into two parts.
- v. To divide into two equal parts.
WordNet 3.0
- v. cut in half or cut in two
Examples
“The transformation is obvious along the new, multilane roads that bisect fields in the Baigou suburbs, where developers are turning farmland into factories and malls.”
“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.”
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“Mathematics tends to bisect people into either fascination or annoyance.”
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“France is going to cop another pounding as (from my reading) the Iron Curtain will bisect La Belle France.”
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“All the Egyptians or whoever would need is 25 miles to bisect the country.”
“I don't see painting/video/dance/graphics etc as pigeon holes they all bisect each other.”
“Norwalk opposed it altogether on the grounds it would bisect the city.”
“Do you bisect your sevens with one of those squiggly hyphens?”
“For example, Proposition 9 shows how to “bisect” an angle: construct an angle that is exactly half of a given angle.”
“An agrarian Alice, I pick my way gingerly through a portal in the tangle of hemlock branches that now bisect The Farm.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bisect’.
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-sect, -section
of cutting or dividing
bisect, vivisection, section, dissect, secant, intersection, sect
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Words That Sound Dirty but Really Aren't
annals, assassinate, bisect, bubbly, caucus, caulk, colloquialism, concoct, condominium, congeal, congenital, convex and 131 more...
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Philately
Definitions mainly taken from this glossary.
aerogramme, aerophilately, black jack, cachet, cancellation, cinderella, albino, album weed, ambulante, aniline ink, authentication mark, back-of-book and 104 more...
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TheLastGoodNameLeft
The Last Good Words Left
ephemera, gammon, errata, ellipses, octopi, heteronormative, polyp, intersectionality, theses, california, halfback, fullback and 555 more...
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parlerodermime's Words
loquacious, orange, lackadaisical, rhythm, esoterrorist, contrary, enchanted, extraordinary, nymph, chatter, incessant, time and 168 more...
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The No-No List
Words I absolutely will not say aloud to people unless I'm sure they know exactly what I'm talking about. Also words that require great diligence in pronunciation, so no one is offended by a slight...
sects, norfolk, dam, niggardly, shih tzu, push it, gaze, retardant, seaman, penal, cummin, frigate and 42 more...
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Cut (verb)
Words related to cut (verb).
section, incise, sever, incide, bisect, trisect, defalcate, dissect
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