| 单词 | bifurcate |
| 释义 | bifurcate (once / 13649 pages) vadj When you're walking through the woods, you sometimes see the path bifurcate, or split in two directions, and have to choose which way to continue. Bifurcate means "to divide into two branches." If you want to impress your friend (or annoy them) with your knowledge of big words, you can point out the place where "the river bifurcates", or the way tree branches "bifurcate again and again". Really what you're describing is anything that splits into forks or branches. The Latin root of bifurcate adds the prefix bi, or "two", to the word "furca", or fork. WORD FAMILYbifurcate: bifurcated, bifurcates, bifurcating, bifurcation+/bifurcated: bifurcatedly/bifurcation: bifurcations/fork: bifurcate, fork-like, forked, forking, forks/forked: forkedly/forking: forkings USAGE EXAMPLESBy satellite, the canyon, about 15 meters wide with walls reaching 30 meters high, looks like a bifurcated tongue. Science Magazine(Dec 15, 2016) If work is our national religion, Pang is the philosopher reintegrating our bifurcated selves. New York Times(Dec 12, 2016) “Allied” is, among other things, a marvel of structure, a perfectly bifurcated story that manages a drastic shift in tone with exquisite aplomb. New York Times(Nov 22, 2016) 1v split or divide into two Hyper diverge extend in a different direction 2v divide into two branches The road bifurcated Hyper branch, fork, furcate, ramify, separate divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork 3adj resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches Syn biramous, branched, forficate, fork-like, forked, pronged, prongy divided separated into parts or pieces |
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