bi
bi · bis · bi
A biceps muscleA biceps muscle.
/biː/
» Tom wears bi-focals.
Том носит бифокальные очки.
Meaning
2 senses(colloquial, uncommon)A biceps muscle.
You cannot train your back without regard to your tris and bis.
A type of jade disk produced in ancient China.
More definitions
- a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals
Examples
27 sentencesTom wears bi-focals.
ruТом носит бифокальные очки.
Mary's wife is bi.
Дружина Мері бісексуальна.
Tom isn't bi, I don't think.
She's happy being a bi woman.
He's gay and his boyfriends are both bi.
Origin
Clipping of biceps. From Mandarin 璧 (bì).Forms
plural: bis / biSynonyms
2 synonymsClose in meaning
- a heavy brittle diamagnetic trivalent metallic element (resembles arsenic and antimony chemically); usually recovered as a by-product from ores of other metals:bismuthatomic number 83
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular