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Definitions: Bifurcate |
BifurcateAdjective1. Resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots". Verb1. Split or divide into two. 2. Divide into two branches; "The road bifurcated". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definitions |
Computing | To divide into two branches or parts; thus two-pronged or forked. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BifurcateSynonyms: biramous (adj), branched (adj), forked (adj), pronged (adj), prongy (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Angularity | Verb: bend, fork, bifurcate, crinkle. |
Adjective: angular, bent, crooked, aduncous, uncinated, aquiline, jagged, serrated; falciform, falcated; furcated, forked, bifurcate, zigzag; furcular; hooked; dovetailed; knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo, geniculated; oblique. | |
bisection | Separate, fork, bifurcate; branch off, out; ramify. |
Adjective: bisected; Verb: cloven, cleft; bipartite, biconjugate, bicuspid, bifid; bifurcous, bifurcate, bifurcated; distichous, dichotomous, furcular; semi-, demi-, hemi. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Bifurcate |
| English words defined with "bifurcate": Biforked, Bifurcous ♦ Dacrymyces, Dacrymycetaceae ♦ family Dacrymycetaceae ♦ genus Dacrymyces. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "bifurcate": Leucine Zippers. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bifurcate | 23 |
bifurcate marriage | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "bifurcate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | bigëzohet, i degëzuar (branchy, dendritic, dendroid, furcate, ramified, ramose), degëzoj (derive, ramify), degëzohem (branch, branch off, diverge, furcate, ramify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قسم إلى شعبتين, ذو فرعين, ذو شعبتين (biforked, divaricate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | раздвояваме, раздвоен (furcate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | todele. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | vertakken in twee delen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | دوشاخه کردن , دوشاخه ای , دوشاخه شدن , بدوشاخه منشعب کردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jakaa kahtia (divide in two, halve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bifurquer (bisect), bifurqué (biforked), deux branches. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | gabeln (fork, fork up, forks, gables, pitch, pitchfork). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διακλαδώνω (ramify). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kettéágazó, kétfelé válik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | mempercabangkan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | biforcuto (furcate), biforcare (forks), diramare (diffuse, issue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | goalaghey (bifurcation, branch, branch of road), banganey (bifurcation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ifurcatebay bifurcar (bisect, branch, dichotomize, divarication, divide, divvy). (various references) bifurcat (forked, furcate), se bifurca (branch, divaricate), despica (check, cleave, rend, rift, rip, Rive, slit, splinter, split). (various references) раздвоенный (bifid, cloven, forked, furcate), раздваивать (dualize). (various references) bifurkantni, razdvojiti (come apart, disengage, disjoin, disjoint, part, push apart, separate, split), račvati se (bisect, branch, branch out, fork), račvast (branching, forked, pronged). (various references) bifurcar (branch). (various references) bifurkera, dela i två grenar. (various references) แบ่งเป็นสองส่วน. (various references) iki kola ayrılmak, iki kola ayrılmış, iki kola ayırmak, çatallanmak (divaricate, furcate, ramify), çatallanmış. (various references) роздвоювати (furcate), роздво"ний (bifid, biforked, cloven, forked, forky, furcate). (various references) rẽ đôi (dichotomic, dichotomous), chia hai nhánh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "bifurcate": bifurcated, bifurcates. (additional references) | |
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"Bifurcate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bifarcate, bifercate, bifircate, biforcate, bifrucate, bifucate, Bifulco, bifurcat, bifurcatea, bifurgate, bifuricate, birfucate, bourcart. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "bifurcate" (pronounced bi"ferkā't or bī"ferkā't) |
| 3 | -k ā' t | abdicate, adjudicate, allocate, aluminosilicate, authenticate, cheapskate, communicate, complicate, confiscate, dedicate, deprecate, domesticate, educate, equivocate, eradicate, excommunicate, extricate, fabricate, implicate, inculcate, indicate, intoxicate, locate, lubricate, medicate, misallocate, obfuscate, pontificate, predicate, prefabricate, prognosticate, reciprocate, rededicate, reeducate, replicate, sophisticate, suffocate, truncate. |
| 3 | -k ā' t | abdicate, adjudicate, allocate, aluminosilicate, authenticate, cheapskate, communicate, complicate, confiscate, dedicate, deprecate, domesticate, educate, equivocate, eradicate, excommunicate, extricate, fabricate, implicate, inculcate, indicate, intoxicate, locate, lubricate, medicate, misallocate, obfuscate, pontificate, predicate, prefabricate, prognosticate, reciprocate, rededicate, reeducate, replicate, sophisticate, suffocate, truncate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-f-i-r-t-u" | |
-2 letters: barefit, facture, furcate. | |
-3 letters: acuter, arbute, baiter, barite, biface, caribe, curate, curiae, curite, fabric, farcie, faucet, fiacre, fracti, rebait, rubace, rubati, terbia, terbic, uratic, uretic. | |
-4 letters: acerb, acute, afire, afrit, after, areic, aurei, auric, baric, beaut, befit, biter, brace, bract, brief, bruit, brute, buret, caber, caret, carte, cater, ceiba, ceria, citer, craft, crate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-f-i-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: bifurcated, bifurcates. | |
+2 letters: rubefacient. | |
+3 letters: rubefacients. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 69 66 75 72 63 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .. ..-. ..- .-. -.-. .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01101001 01100110 01110101 01110010 01100011 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B i f u r c a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0069 0066 0075 0072 0063 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)367572878469678671 |
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