Semi-monthly is twice per month, which is close to biweekly, but not the same. If you get paid semi-monthly, you get 24 paychecks per year. If you get paid biweekly, you get 26 paychecks per year.
I would say "supported by both Republicans and Democrats" is the least common usage of that word, and mention of Reps and Dems makes it too USA-specific.
The word can mean "comprising both political parties" when referring to committees, or even "independent of any one political party".
Agreed. "Supported by two/both parties" is a far more accurate definition, plus it makes it geographically-neutral. The word is used all over the world, and is in no way tied to the US political system.
Hear hear. I missed this one because of the overly narrow specification, though I'm familiar with bipartisanship. Let all our parties work together to encourage a tweak to the clue :)
I agree, but... As a point of order, "independent of any one political party," is NON-partisan, not bipartisan. I know that is slightly pedantic, but in a few instances it can really make a difference.
"One attracted to either men or women" technically means someone who is only attracted to one sex or the other. I think you mean "One attracted to both men and women."
I agree. It's probably best to phrase it more specifically as, "one who can be attracted to men or women," or "one who can be attracted to both men and women."
I only got bivalve because of a long discourse in a Jules Verne book about mussels. Learnt a lot of entirely pointless terms in both French and English from that one.
After a quick google search of 'do birds have feet' I found that almost all of the sources refer to the things on the end of birds' 'legs' as feet. It also referred to the appendages as toes.
Bisect. The root of why everybody mispronounces the word dissect. And now through ubiquitous conflation, DYE-sect has now become an acceptable pronunciation. SMH.
Bisexual means to be attracted to 2 genders. Those genders don't necessarily have to be men and women, and the wording of the clue implies that a bisexual person is attracted to either men or women, when they would actually be attracted to both at the same time
You either have a Y chromosome (male) or you don't (female), which accounts for abnormal genetic combinations (not XX or XY). So yeah, it's as binary as it can get
I got them all except for the tooth. I must say, on this side of the Atlantic (E. side), I've never heard them called that - they are premolars. Indeed, it is normal for some of them to have more than two cusps.
Bisexual means exactly the opposite of being either attracted to men, or to women. It means to be attracted to both. If you are attracted to either men, or women, you are heterosexual or homosexual depending on your own sex. Quite a big mess/mix up imho. (Like saying that a guy that likes women is homosexual)
Perhaps. In my mind bifurcation typically implies a separation and also a copying, so you end up with 2 wholes instead of 2 halves. That may be entirely connotation though, and not in the denotation of the term.
The bigamist clue really threw me because it is not a correct definition. A bigamist is someone who illegally has more than one spouse concurrently. The spouses don't have to be wives, and there can be more than two. Legality is an essential part of the definition, because in some times and places multiple marriage has not been classed as bigamy.
And if you are Lorelei Lee (played by Marilyn Monroe in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"), does singing "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" make you blingual?
because there is no such word as binocular. I mean there is, but it's an adjective and not the noun form that the clue is asking for. Same for bifocals. If it accepts bifocal, that seems like an error to me.
Hmm it actually is news to me bipolar and manic depression is the same thing! I had no idea and am very surprised. Weird how I wasn't aware of this. I had quite a good idea of what manic depression was and admittedly my knowledge of what bipolar was, was lacking. But I never associated the two!
The only thing I remember reading about it was something about having difficulties to form (long-lasting) relationships/friendships so what it was beyond that had always remained a bit of a mystery to me.
Ah after some more googling, I somehow equated/mixed it up with borderline... both starting with a b..
That being said, I still didn't know bipolar=manic depression. I guess part of the reason is that in Dutch the second term is usually used in everyday live and bipolar disorder mainly in official situations (literature/people working in the mental health sector)
bi·cen·ten·ni·al
/ˌbīsənˈtenēəl/
noun
noun: bicentennial; plural noun: bicentennials
the two-hundredth anniversary of a significant event.
B. The Bicycle question was worded weirdly and wasn’t as immediately obvious as the bisexual question.
The word can mean "comprising both political parties" when referring to committees, or even "independent of any one political party".
“I thrill when I drill a bicuspid
It’s swell, though they tell me I’m mal-ad-juh-usted…”
The only thing I remember reading about it was something about having difficulties to form (long-lasting) relationships/friendships so what it was beyond that had always remained a bit of a mystery to me.
Ah after some more googling, I somehow equated/mixed it up with borderline... both starting with a b..
That being said, I still didn't know bipolar=manic depression. I guess part of the reason is that in Dutch the second term is usually used in everyday live and bipolar disorder mainly in official situations (literature/people working in the mental health sector)