
adjectives - bi-daily, bidaily or twice-daily? - English Language ...
Nov 2, 2016 · Twice-daily is probably the best choice since it is unambiguous and commonly used. Using either bidaily or bi-daily risks the reader getting muddled between "twice a day" …
"each day" → "daily"; "every other day" →? [duplicate]
Feb 24, 2013 · Semi- is half, so semi-daily means on the half-days. The OED says it means twice a day, which is the same thing.
Are there any words I can use to disambiguate "biweekly"?
Dec 5, 2011 · We have two words for events occurring in periods of years - biannual meaning twice a year, and biennial meaning once every two years. However, my colleagues talk about …
distributive determiners - "put one drop in both eyes" - English ...
Apr 1, 2025 · VA Practitioner (1987): one drop in both eyes twice daily Bucci (Glaucoma: Decision Making in Therapy, 1996): 20 were randomly assigned to placebo one drop in both eyes twice …
meaning - "Biweekly", "bimonthly", "biannual", and "bicentennial": …
What do lengths of time with the "bi" prefix mean"? I have understood bicentennial as once every two hundred years, but biannual as meaning twice a year. Do biweekly and bimonthly mean …
Synonymous idiom for "A stopped clock is right twice a day"
Feb 23, 2018 · 9 "A stopped clock is right twice a day" is an idiom that means that no person is ever wrong about everything 100% of the time. A stopped clock is pretty useless in most …
recurring events - A word for "every two days" - English Language ...
Aug 23, 2014 · Is there an adjective that means "every two days", i.e. is to a day as biennial is to a year?
Word for groups of periods of time - English Language & Usage …
Sep 10, 2015 · Period refers to the length of time between occurrences: 1 day, 2 weeks, etc. Frequency refers to how often the events occur: once every week (daily), every two months or …
Twice vs Two Times - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
May 21, 2014 · Replacing "two times" with "twice" is natural and recommended; replacing "three times" with "thrice" is weird and archaic. There's no logical reason why that should be so — …
time - What's the Best English word for 6 months in this group: …
Thanks jwpat7, the fact is I'd vote up your answer. One word appearing in two different questions don't make it duplicates. While one question could be about what does bi- stand for, my …