Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 48
Bite (v. t.) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth. "Frosts do bite the meads." -- Shak.
Bite (v. t.) To cheat; to trick; to take in. [Colloq.] -- Pope.
Bite (v. t.) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.
The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned and turned with nothing to bite. -- Dickens.
To bite the dust, To bite the ground, To fall in the agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust.
To bite in (Etching), To corrode or eat into metallic plates by means of an acid.
To bite the thumb at (any one), Formerly a mark of contempt, designed to provoke a quarrel; to defy. "Do you bite your thumb at us?" -- Shak.
To bite the tongue, To keep silence. -- Shak.
Bite (v. i.) 咬；叮；（魚）上鉤；（人）上當 To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?
Bite (v. i.) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.
Bite (v. i.) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
At the last it [wine] biteth like serpent, and stingeth like an adder. -- Prov. xxiii. 32.
Bite (v. i.) To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.
Bite (v. i.) To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
Bite (n.) The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.
I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. -- Walton.
Bite (n.) The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.
Bite (n.) The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.
Bite (n.) A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
Bite (n.) The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
Bite (n.) A cheat; a trick; a fraud. [Colloq.]
The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching. -- Humorist.
Bite (n.) A sharper; one who cheats. [Slang] -- Johnson.
Bite (n.) (Print.) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
Bite (n.) A wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person.
Bite (n.) A small amount of solid food; a mouthful; "all they had left was a bit of bread" [syn: morsel, bit, bite].
Bite (n.) A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin [syn: sting, bite, insect bite].
Bite (n.) A light informal meal [syn: bite, collation, snack].
Bite (n.) (Angling) An instance of a fish taking the bait; "after fishing for an hour he still had not had a bite".
Bite (n.) Wit having a sharp and caustic quality; "he commented with typical pungency"; "the bite of satire" [syn: pungency, bite].
Bite (n.) A strong odor or taste property; "the pungency of mustard"; "the sulfurous bite of garlic"; "the sharpness of strange spices"; "the raciness of the wine" [syn: pungency, bite, sharpness, raciness].
Bite (n.) The act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws [syn: bite, chomp].
Bite (n.) A portion removed from the whole; "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck".
Bite (v.) To grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws; "Gunny invariably tried to bite her" [syn: bite, seize with teeth].
Bite (v.) Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face" [syn: bite, sting, burn].
Bite (v.) Penetrate or cut, as with a knife; "The fork bit into the surface".
Bite (v.) Deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday" [syn: sting, bite, prick].
Byte; Bite () (B) A component in the machine data hierarchy larger than a bit and usually smaller than a word; now nearly always eight bits and the smallest addressable unit of storage. A byte typically holds one character.
A byte may be 9 bits on 36-bit computers. Some older architectures used "byte" for quantities of 6 or 7 bits, and the PDP-10 and IBM 7030 supported "bytes" that were actually bit-fields of 1 to 36 (or 64) bits! These usages are now obsolete, and even 9-bit bytes have become rare in the general trend toward power-of-2 word sizes.
The term was coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956 during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer. It was a mutation of the word "bite" intended to avoid confusion with "bit". In 1962 he described it as "a group of bits used to encode a character, or the number of bits transmitted in parallel to and from input-output units". The move to an 8-bit byte happened in late 1956, and this size was later adopted and promulgated as a standard by the System/ 360 operating system (announced April 1964). James S. Jones adds:
I am sure I read in a mid-1970's brochure by IBM that outlined the history of computers that BYTE was an acronym that stood for "Bit asYnchronous Transmission E..?" which related to width of the bus between the Stretch CPU and its CRT-memory (prior to Core).
Terry Carr says:
In the early days IBM taught that a series of bits transferred together (like so many yoked oxen) formed a Binary Yoked Transfer Element (BYTE).
[True origin? First 8-bit byte architecture?]
See also nibble, octet. [{Jargon File] (2003-09-21)
Biter (n.) One who, or that which, bites; that which bites often, or is inclined to bite, as a dog or fish. "Great barkers are no biters." -- Camden.
Biter (n.) One who cheats; a sharper. [Colloq.] -- Spectator.
Biter (n.) Someone who bites.
Biternate (a.) Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets. -- Bi*ter"nate*ly, adv. -- Gray.
Bitheism (n.) Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.
Biting (a.) That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic. "A biting affliction." "A biting jest." -- Shak.
Biting (a.) Capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire" [syn: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious].
Biting (a.) Causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind" [syn: biting, bitter].
Biting in (Etching.) The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See Etch. -- G. Francis.
Bitingly (adv.) In a biting manner.
Bitingly (adv.) Extremely and sharply; "it was bitterly cold"; "bitter cold" [syn: piercingly, bitterly, bitingly, bitter].
Bitless (a.) Not having a bit or bridle.
Bitstock (n.) A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.
Bitstock (n.) A carpenter's tool having a crank handle for turning and a socket to hold a bit for boring [syn: brace, bitstock].
Bitt (n.) See Bitts.
Bitt (v. t.) To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away.
Bittacle (n.) A binnacle.
Bitten (a.) (Bot.) Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.
Bitten () p. p. of Bite.
Bitter (n.) (Naut.) AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.
Bitter end, That part of a cable which is abaft the bitts, and so within board, when the ship rides at anchor.
Bitter (a.) Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes.
Bitter (a.) Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe; as, a bitter cold day.
Bitter (a.) Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the mind; calamitous; poignant.
It is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God. -- Jer. ii. 19.
Bitter (a.) Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach.
Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them. -- Col. iii. 19.
Bitter (a.) Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable.
The Egyptians . . . made their lives bitter with hard bondage. -- Ex. i. 14.
Bitter apple, Bitter cucumber, Bitter gourd. (Bot.) See Colocynth.
Bitter cress (Bot.), A plant of the genus Cardamine, esp. Cardamine amara.
Bitter earth (Min.), Tale earth; calcined magnesia.
Bitter principles (Chem.), A class of substances, extracted from vegetable products, having strong bitter taste but with no sharply defined chemical characteristics.
Bitter salt, Epsom salts; magnesium sulphate.
Bitter vetch (Bot.), A name given to two European leguminous herbs, Vicia Orobus and Ervum Ervilia.
To the bitter end, To the last extremity, however calamitous.
Syn: Acrid; sharp; harsh; pungent; stinging; cutting; severe; acrimonious.
Bitter (n.) Any substance that is bitter. See Bitters.
Bitter (v. t.) To make bitter. -- Wolcott.
Bitter (adv.) Extremely and sharply; "it was bitterly cold"; "bitter cold" [syn: piercingly, bitterly, bitingly, bitter].
Bitter (a.) Marked by strong resentment or cynicism; "an acrimonious dispute"; "bitter about the divorce" [syn: acrimonious, bitter].
Bitter (a.) Very difficult to accept or bear; "the bitter truth"; "a bitter sorrow".
Bitter (a.) Harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique" [syn: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic].
Bitter (a.) Expressive of severe grief or regret; "shed bitter tears".
Bitter (a.) Proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity; "a bitter struggle"; "bitter enemies".
Bitter (a.) Causing a sharp and acrid taste experience;"quinine is bitter".
Bitter (a.) Causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind" [syn: biting, bitter].
Bitter (n.) English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft).
Bitter (n.) The taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth [syn: bitter, bitterness].
Bitter (n.) The property of having a harsh unpleasant taste [syn: bitterness, bitter].
Bitter (v.) Make bitter.
Bitter () Bitterness is symbolical of affliction, misery, and servitude (Ex. 1:14; Ruth 1:20; Jer. 9:15). The Chaldeans are called the "bitter and hasty nation" (Hab. 1:6). The "gall of bitterness" expresses a state of great wickedness (Acts 8:23). A "root of bitterness" is a wicked person or a dangerous sin (Heb. 12:15).
The Passover was to be eaten with "bitter herbs" (Ex. 12:8;
Num. 9:11). The kind of herbs so designated is not known.
Probably they were any bitter herbs obtainable at the place and time when the Passover was celebrated. They represented the severity of the servitude under which the people groaned; and have been regarded also as typical of the sufferings of Christ.
Bitterbump (n.) (Zool.) The butterbump or bittern.
Bitterful (a.) Full of bitterness.[Obs.]
Bittering (n.) A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.
Bitterish (a.) Somewhat bitter. -- Goldsmith.
Bitterish (a.) Somewhat bitter [syn: bitterish, sharp-tasting].
Bitterling (n.) [G.] [Zool.] A roachlike European fish ({Rhodima amarus).
Bitterly (adv.) 苦澀地；痛苦地；不痛快地；殘酷地；激烈地；非常地 In a bitter manner.
Bitterly (adv.) With bitterness, in a resentful manner; "she complained bitterly".
Bitterly (adv.) Indicating something hard to accept; "he was bitterly disappointed".
Bitterly (adv.) Extremely and sharply; "it was bitterly cold"; "bitter cold" [syn: piercingly, bitterly, bitingly, bitter].
Bittern (n.) The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.
Bittern (n.) A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer.
Bittern (n.) (Zool.) A wading bird of the genus Botaurus, allied to the herons, of various species.
Note: The common European bittern is Botaurus stellaris. It makes, during the brooding season, a noise called by Dryden bumping, and by Goldsmith booming. The American bittern is Botaurus lentiginosus, and is also called stake-driver and meadow hen. See Stake-driver.
Note:
The name is applied to other related birds, as the
least+bittern+({Ardetta+exilis">least bittern ({Ardetta exilis), and
the sun bittern.
Bittern (n.) Relatively small compact tawny-brown heron with
nocturnal habits and a booming cry; found in marshes.
Bittern () Is found three times in connection with the desolations to come upon Babylon, Idumea, and Nineveh (Isa. 14:23; 34:11; Zeph. 2:14). This bird belongs to the class of cranes. Its scientific name is Botaurus stellaris. It is a solitary bird, frequenting marshy ground. The Hebrew word (kippod) thus rendered in the Authorized Version is rendered "porcupine" in the Revised Version. But in the passages noted the kippod is associated with birds, with pools of water, and with solitude and desolation.
This favours the idea that not the "porcupine" but the "bittern" is really intended by the word.
Bitterness (n.) 苦味；痛苦，悲痛 The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind.
The lip that curls with bitterness. -- Percival.
I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. -- Job vii. 11.
Bitterness (n.) A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God.
Thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity. -- Acts viii. 23.
Bitterness (n.) Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy.
Looking diligently, . . . lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you. -- Heb. xii. 15.
Bitterness (n.) A feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will [syn: {resentment}, {bitterness}, {gall}, {rancor}, {rancour}].
Bitterness (n.) A rough and bitter manner [syn: {bitterness}, {acrimony}, {acerbity}, {jaundice}, {tartness}, {thorniness}].
Bitterness (n.) The taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth [syn: {bitter}, {bitterness}].
Bitterness (n.) The property of having a harsh unpleasant taste [syn: {bitterness}, {bitter}].
Bitternut (n.) (Bot.) The swamp hickory ({Carya amara). Its thin-shelled nuts are bitter.
Bitternut (n.) Hickory of the eastern United States having a leaves with 7 or 9 leaflets and thin-shelled very bitter nuts [syn: bitternut, bitternut hickory, bitter hickory, bitter pignut, swamp hickory, Carya cordiformis].
Bitterroot (n.) (Bot.) A plant
({Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots,
growing in the mountains of
Bitterroot (n.) Showy succulent ground-hugging plant of Rocky Mountains regions having deep to pale pink flowers and fleshy farinaceous roots; the Montana state flower [syn: bitterroot, Lewisia rediviva].
Bitters (n. pl.) A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
Bitters (n.) Alcoholic liquor flavored with bitter herbs and roots.
Bitter spar () A common name of dolomite; -- so called because it contains magnesia, the soluble salts of which are bitter. See Dolomite.
Compare: Dolomite
Dolomite (n.) (Geol. & Min.) A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact limestone, often crystalline granular, either white or clouded. It includes much of the common white marble. Also called bitter spar.
Bitter spar (n.) A light colored mineral consisting of calcium magnesium carbonate; a source of magnesium; used as a ceramic and as fertilizer [syn: dolomite, bitter spar].
Bittersweet (a.) Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.
Bittersweet (n.) Anything which is bittersweet.
Bittersweet (n.) A kind of apple so called. -- Gower.
Bittersweet (n.) (Bot.) A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries ({Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.
Bittersweet (n.) (Bot.) An American woody climber ({Celastrus scandens), whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also called Roxbury waxwork.
Bittersweet (a.) Tinged with sadness; "a movie with a bittersweet ending".
Bittersweet (a.) Having a taste that is a mixture of bitterness and sweetness [syn: bittersweet, semisweet].
Bittersweet (n.) Poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America [syn: bittersweet, bittersweet nightshade, climbing nightshade, deadly nightshade, poisonous nightshade, woody nightshade, Solanum dulcamara].
Bittersweet (n.) Twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds [syn: bittersweet, American bittersweet, climbing bittersweet, false bittersweet, staff vine, waxwork, shrubby bittersweet, Celastrus scandens].
Bitterweed (n.) (Bot.) A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiaefolia); Roman worm wood. -- Gray.
Bitterweed (n.) Widespread European weed with spiny tongue-shaped leaves and yellow flowers; naturalized in United States [syn: oxtongue, bristly oxtongue, bitterweed, bugloss, Picris echioides].
Bitterweed (n.) Any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma [syn: ragweed, ambrosia, bitterweed].
Bitterwood (n.) A West Indian tree ({Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
Bitterwood (n.) Handsome South American shrub or small tree having bright scarlet flowers and yielding a valuable fine-grained yellowish wood; yields the bitter drug quassia from its wood and bark [syn: quassia, bitterwood, Quassia amara].
Bitterwood (n.) West Indian tree yielding the drug Jamaica quassia [syn: Jamaica quassia, bitterwood, Picrasma excelsa, Picrasma excelsum].
Bitterwood (n.) Medium to large tree of tropical North and South America having odd-pinnate leaves and long panicles of small pale yellow flowers followed by scarlet fruits [syn: paradise tree, bitterwood, Simarouba glauca].
Bitterwort (n.) (Bot.) The yellow gentian ({Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.
Bittock (n.) A small bit of anything, of indefinite size or quantity; a short distance. [Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Bittor Bittour (n.) (Zool.) The bittern. -- Dryden.
Bitts (n. pl.) (Naut.) A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc.
Bitume (n.) Bitumen. [Poetic] -- May.
Bitumed (a.) Smeared with bitumen. [R.] "The hatches caulked and bitumed." -- Shak.
Bitumen (n.) Mineral pitch; a
black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as
an abundant natural product in many places, as on the shores of the Dead and
Bitumen (n.) By extension, any one of the natural hydrocarbons, including the hard, solid, brittle varieties called asphalt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.
Bitumen (n.) Any of various naturally occurring impure mixtures of Hydrocarbons.
Bitumen () Gen. 11:3, R.V., margin, rendered in the A.V. "slime"), a mineral pitch. With this the ark was pitched (6:14. See also Ex. 2:3.) (See SLIME.)
Bituminated (imp. & p. p.) of Bituminate
Bituminating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bituminate
Bituminate (v. t.) To treat or impregnate with bitumen; to cement with bitumen. "Bituminated walls of Babylon." -- Feltham.
Bituminiferous (a.) Producing bitumen. -- Kirwan.
Bituminization (n.) The process of bituminizing. -- Mantell.
Bituminized (imp. & p. p.) of Bituminize.
Bituminizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bituminize.
Bituminize (v. t.) To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.
Bituminize (v.) Treat with bitumen [syn: bituminize, bituminise].
Bituminous (a.) Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen; containing bitumen.
Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed. -- Milton.
Bituminous coal, A kind of coal which yields, when heated, a considerable amount of volatile bituminous matter. It burns with a yellow smoky flame.
Bituminous limestone, A mineral of a brown or black color, emitting an unpleasant smell when rubbed. That of Dalmatia is so charged with bitumen that it may be cut like soap.
Bituminous shale, An argillaceous shale impregnated with bitumen, often accompanying coal.
Bituminous (a.) Resembling or containing bitumen; "bituminous coal".
Biuret (n.) (Chem.) A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, C2O2N3H5, formed by heating urea. It is intermediate between urea and cyanuric acid.
Bivalency (n.) (Chem.) The quality of being bivalent.
Bivalent (a.) (Chem.) 【化】二（原子）價的 Equivalent in combining or displacing power to two atoms of hydrogen; dyad.
Bivalent (a.) Having a valence of two or having two valences [syn: {bivalent}, {divalent}].
Bivalent (a.) Used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis [syn: {bivalent}, {double}] [ant: {multivalent}, {univalent}].
Bivalve (n.) (Zool.) 雙殼貝 A mollusk having a shell consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.
Bivalve (n.) (Bot.) A pericarp in which the seed case opens or splits into two parts or valves.
Bivalve (a.) (Zool. & Bot.) 兩瓣的；雙殼的 Having two shells or valves which open and shut, as the oyster and certain seed vessels.
Bivalve (a.) Used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) [syn: {bivalve}, {bivalved}] [ant: {univalve}].
Bivalve (n.) Marine or freshwater mollusks having a soft body with platelike gills enclosed within two shells hinged together [syn: {bivalve}, {pelecypod}, {lamellibranch}].
Bivalved (a.) Having two valves, as the oyster and some seed pods; bivalve.
Bivalve (a.) Used of mollusks having two shells (as clams etc.) [syn: bivalve, bivalved] [ant: univalve].
Bivalvous (a.) Bivalvular.
Bivalvular (a.) Having two valves.
Bivaulted (a.) Having two vaults or arches.
Bivector (n.) (Math.) 二維向量；二重向量 A term made up of the two parts ? + ?1 ?-1, where ? and ?1 are vectors.
Biventral (a.) (Anat.) Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.
Bivial (a.) Of or relating to the bivium.
Bivious (a.) Having, or leading, two ways.
Bivium (n.) (Zool.) One side of an echinoderm, including a pair of ambulacra, in distinction from the opposite side (trivium), which includes three ambulacra.
Bivouac (n.) (Mil.) The watch of a whole army by night, when in danger of surprise or attack.
Bivouac (n.) (Mil.) An encampment for the night without tents or covering.
Bivouacked (imp. & p. p.) of Bivouac
Bivouacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bivouac
Bivouac (v. i.) (Mil.) 露營，露宿 To watch at night or be on guard, as a whole army.
Bivouac (v. i.) (Mil.) To encamp for the night without tents or covering.
Bivouac (n.) 露營，露宿；露宿地 Temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling" [syn: camp, encampment, cantonment, bivouac].
Bivouac (n.) A site where people on holiday can pitch a tent [syn: campsite, campground, camping site, camping ground, bivouac, encampment, camping area].
Bivouac (v.) Live in or as if in a tent; "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The circus tented near the town"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room" [syn: camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent].
Biweekly (a.) 每兩週的；每週兩次的 Occurring or appearing once every two weeks; fortnightly. -- n. A publication issued every two weeks. -- Bi"week"ly, adv.
Biweekly (adv.) 兩週一次地；每週兩次地 Twice a week; "he called home semiweekly" [syn: semiweekly, biweekly].
Biweekly (adv.) Every two weeks; "he visited his cousins fortnightly" [syn: fortnightly, biweekly].
Biweekly (a.) Occurring every two weeks [syn: fortnightly, biweekly].
Biweekly (a.) Occurring twice a week [syn: semiweekly, biweekly].
Biweekly (n.) A periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year).