Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adv
Twice; showing that something is, or is to be, repeated, such as a passage of music, or an item in accounts.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: entertainment, law, lifestyle, music
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name
Initialism of Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: government
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noun
plural of bi
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, plural
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noun
Initialism of best in slot (“the best piece of equipment a character is able to equip in a certain equipment slot”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: video-games
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noun
Initialism of behavioral inhibition system.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
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noun
Alternative form of BiS.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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History
Learned borrowing from Latin bis (“twice”).
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
