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bipartisan
Involving members of two political parties.
🌱The president named a bipartisan commission of three Republicans and three Democrats to look into the issue. 🌳Partisan means basically "belonging to a party," so something bipartisan combines two parties. Since the United States today operates with a two-party system of government （even though the Constitution says nothing about parties at all）, legislation often must have some bipartisan support in order to pass into law. Bipartisan committees review legislation, compromising on some points and removing or adding others in order to make the bill more agreeable to both parties and make bipartisan support from the entire legislature or Congress more likely. binary 1、 Consisting of two things or parts; double.
2、 Involving a choice between two alternatives.
🌱The Milky Way contains numerous binary stars, each consisting of two stars orbiting each other. 🌳Binary has many uses, most of them in technical terms. Almost all computer software, for example, is written in binary code, which uses only two digits, 0 and 1, 0 standing for a low-voltage impulse （"off"） and 1 standing for a high-voltage impulse （"on"）. All information is kept in this form. The word "HELLO," for example, looks like this: 1001000 1000101 1001100 1001100 1001111. biennial 1、 Occurring every two years.
2、 Continuing or lasting over two years.
🌱The great biennial show of new art in Venice usually either puzzles or angers the critics. 🌳Biennial conventions, celebrations, competitions, and sports events come every two years. Biennials are plants that live two years, bearing flowers and fruit only in the second year. （Carrots and sugar beets are two examples; since we're only interested in their roots, we don't wait another year to see their flower and fruit.） In contrast, semiannual means "twice a year." But no one can agree whether biweekly means "twice a week" or "every two weeks," and whether bimonthly means "twice a month" or "every two months." Maybe we should stop using both of them until we can decide. bipolar Having two opposed forces or views; having two poles or opposed points of attraction.
🌱Our bipolar Earth spins on an axis that extends between the North and South Poles. 🌳Magnets are always bipolar: one pole attracts and the other repels or drives away. And the Cold War arms race was bipolar, since it mainly involved the opposing powers of the U.S. and the Soviet Union. But the word is encountered most often today in bipolar disorder, the newer name of what used to be called manic-depressive illness, in which the person tends to swing between the two extremes, or poles, of high intensity and deep depression, with depression being the main condition. Though an extremely serious illness, bipolar disorder can often be controlled by the drug lithium.
🌱The president named a bipartisan commission of three Republicans and three Democrats to look into the issue. 🌳Partisan means basically "belonging to a party," so something bipartisan combines two parties. Since the United States today operates with a two-party system of government （even though the Constitution says nothing about parties at all）, legislation often must have some bipartisan support in order to pass into law. Bipartisan committees review legislation, compromising on some points and removing or adding others in order to make the bill more agreeable to both parties and make bipartisan support from the entire legislature or Congress more likely. binary 1、 Consisting of two things or parts; double.
2、 Involving a choice between two alternatives.
🌱The Milky Way contains numerous binary stars, each consisting of two stars orbiting each other. 🌳Binary has many uses, most of them in technical terms. Almost all computer software, for example, is written in binary code, which uses only two digits, 0 and 1, 0 standing for a low-voltage impulse （"off"） and 1 standing for a high-voltage impulse （"on"）. All information is kept in this form. The word "HELLO," for example, looks like this: 1001000 1000101 1001100 1001100 1001111. biennial 1、 Occurring every two years.
2、 Continuing or lasting over two years.
🌱The great biennial show of new art in Venice usually either puzzles or angers the critics. 🌳Biennial conventions, celebrations, competitions, and sports events come every two years. Biennials are plants that live two years, bearing flowers and fruit only in the second year. （Carrots and sugar beets are two examples; since we're only interested in their roots, we don't wait another year to see their flower and fruit.） In contrast, semiannual means "twice a year." But no one can agree whether biweekly means "twice a week" or "every two weeks," and whether bimonthly means "twice a month" or "every two months." Maybe we should stop using both of them until we can decide. bipolar Having two opposed forces or views; having two poles or opposed points of attraction.
🌱Our bipolar Earth spins on an axis that extends between the North and South Poles. 🌳Magnets are always bipolar: one pole attracts and the other repels or drives away. And the Cold War arms race was bipolar, since it mainly involved the opposing powers of the U.S. and the Soviet Union. But the word is encountered most often today in bipolar disorder, the newer name of what used to be called manic-depressive illness, in which the person tends to swing between the two extremes, or poles, of high intensity and deep depression, with depression being the main condition. Though an extremely serious illness, bipolar disorder can often be controlled by the drug lithium.
BI/BIN also means "two" or "double." A bicycle has two wheels, and binoculars consist of two little telescopes. Bigamy is marriage to two people at once. And a road built through the middle of a neighborhood bisects it into two pieces.🌸