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Every six months, a bun with nail is hammered
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biannual
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biannual \Bi*an"nu*al\, a. [Pref. bi- + annual.] Occurring twice a year; half-yearly; semiannual.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 semiannual: occurring twice a year 2 (context proscribed through conflation with biennial English) occurring once every two years. n. Something occurring twice each year.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also bi-annual ; "occurring every six months, twice a year," 1837, from bi- + annual . Related: Biannually ; bi-annually .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ An independent data and safety monitoring board compared the frequency of all adverse events in the two groups during three biannual meetings. ▪ In late spring, Jody flies to San Francisco for the biannual Pac-10 coaches ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. occurring or payable twice each year [syn: semiannual , biyearly ]
Usage examples of biannual.
Not only was it a busy week, but the hospital was to hold its biannual bazaar at the weekend.
John, like all the other local children, had been invited up to the hall for the biannual parties her grandparents gave for their tenants and neighbours.
When I was a boy, we sledded down its great slope on pizza pans, on those biannual occasions when Natchez got its inch of snow.
Flowering gwine bushes and miniature tomri fruit trees kept to their designated patches, surrounded by perfect beds of perennials, biannuals, and quarternials.
A data profile of names, dates, figures, promotions, training grades, personal biography, medical reports, biannual Security reviews, her ex-husband.
Of course, if he was going to keep control of the situation, he was going to have to stop biting Selena on the boob, even on a biannual basis.
However, no written agenda or minutes of the biannual parleys ever existed.
He was still leery about the prospects of bringing in a balor, but the carrot, his first victory in one of the guild's biannual contests, was too juicy to ignore.
I'm not certain what product she uses to achieve the effect (probably something she smuggles in from Budapest on her biannual trips home), but it usually renders her scalp a fiery pink along the part.