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bipartite
1、 Being in two parts.
2、 Shared by two.
🌱The report is a bipartite document, and all the important findings are in the second section. 🌳Usually a technical word, bipartite is common in medicine and biology. A bipartite patella, for example, is a split kneecap; many people are born with them. Many creatures have a bipartite life cycle, living life in two very distinct forms. As one example, the velella begins life as a creature that travels with thousands of others in the form of a kind of sailboat, blown across the ocean's surface with the wind; only later does each velella turn into a tiny jellyfish. impartial Fair and not biased; treating or affecting all equally.
🌱Representatives of labor and management agreed to have the matter decided by an impartial third party. 🌳To be "partial to" or "partial toward" someone or something is to be somewhat biased or prejudiced, which means that a person who is partial really only sees part of the whole picture. To be impartial is the opposite. The United Nations sends impartial observers to monitor elections in troubled countries. We hope judges and juries will be impartial when they hand down verdicts. But grandparents aren't expected to be impartial when describing their new grandchild. participle A word that is formed from a verb but used like an adjective.
🌱In the phrase "the crying child,""crying" is a present participle; in "satisfaction guaranteed," "guaranteed" is a past participle. 🌳English verbs can take several basic forms, which we call their principal parts: the infinitive （"to move," "to speak," etc.）, the past tense （"moved," "spoke"）, the past participle （"moved," "spoken"）, and the present participle （"moving," "speaking"）. The participles are words that "take part" in two different word classes: that is, verb forms that can also act like adjectives （"the spoken word," "a moving experience"）. A grammatical error called a dangling participle occurs when a sentence begins with a participle that doesn't modify the subject; in the sentence "Climbing the mountain, the cabin came in view," for example, "climbing" is a dangling participle since it doesn't modify "cabin." partisan 1、 A person who is strongly devoted to a particular cause or group.
2、 A guerrilla fighter.
🌱Throughout his career on the Supreme Court, he had been a forthright partisan of the cause of free speech. 🌳A partisan is someone who supports one part or party.Sometimes the support takes the form of military action, as when guerrilla fighters take on government forces. But partisan is actually most often used as an adjective, usually referring to support of a political party. so if you're accused of being too partisan, or of practicing partisan politics, it means you're mainly interested in boosting your own party and attacking the other one.
2、 Shared by two.
🌱The report is a bipartite document, and all the important findings are in the second section. 🌳Usually a technical word, bipartite is common in medicine and biology. A bipartite patella, for example, is a split kneecap; many people are born with them. Many creatures have a bipartite life cycle, living life in two very distinct forms. As one example, the velella begins life as a creature that travels with thousands of others in the form of a kind of sailboat, blown across the ocean's surface with the wind; only later does each velella turn into a tiny jellyfish. impartial Fair and not biased; treating or affecting all equally.
🌱Representatives of labor and management agreed to have the matter decided by an impartial third party. 🌳To be "partial to" or "partial toward" someone or something is to be somewhat biased or prejudiced, which means that a person who is partial really only sees part of the whole picture. To be impartial is the opposite. The United Nations sends impartial observers to monitor elections in troubled countries. We hope judges and juries will be impartial when they hand down verdicts. But grandparents aren't expected to be impartial when describing their new grandchild. participle A word that is formed from a verb but used like an adjective.
🌱In the phrase "the crying child,""crying" is a present participle; in "satisfaction guaranteed," "guaranteed" is a past participle. 🌳English verbs can take several basic forms, which we call their principal parts: the infinitive （"to move," "to speak," etc.）, the past tense （"moved," "spoke"）, the past participle （"moved," "spoken"）, and the present participle （"moving," "speaking"）. The participles are words that "take part" in two different word classes: that is, verb forms that can also act like adjectives （"the spoken word," "a moving experience"）. A grammatical error called a dangling participle occurs when a sentence begins with a participle that doesn't modify the subject; in the sentence "Climbing the mountain, the cabin came in view," for example, "climbing" is a dangling participle since it doesn't modify "cabin." partisan 1、 A person who is strongly devoted to a particular cause or group.
2、 A guerrilla fighter.
🌱Throughout his career on the Supreme Court, he had been a forthright partisan of the cause of free speech. 🌳A partisan is someone who supports one part or party.Sometimes the support takes the form of military action, as when guerrilla fighters take on government forces. But partisan is actually most often used as an adjective, usually referring to support of a political party. so if you're accused of being too partisan, or of practicing partisan politics, it means you're mainly interested in boosting your own party and attacking the other one.
PART, from the Latin word pars, meaning "part," comes into English most obviously in our word part. An apartment or compartment is part of a larger whole. The same is usually true of a particle.🌸