What's the difference between biga and bigam?

Biga


Definition:

  • (n.) A two-horse chariot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Barcelona’s all-time leading scorer asked to be substituted in the eighth minute after he had tried to return to the match following a collision with Las Palmas’ Pedro Bigas.
  • (2) The Argentina forward went down after just three minutes, hurting his knee after shooting under pressure from the Las Palmas defender Pedro Bigas Rigo.
  • (3) In our country indusprial health is promulgated by the medical services of SUVA (Swiss Accident Insurance Institute) and BIGA (Federal Office for Industry and Labour) on one hand and by the lecturers of universities and at the ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) as well as by plant physicians on the other hand.

Bigam


Definition:

  • (n.) A bigamist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Good Life launched him on a much more varied theatre diet, including Ibsen's The Wild Duck at the Lyric, Hammersmith, in 1980; George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man (his was a richly nuanced, physical performance as the battle-weary Bluntschli) in 1981; Ray Cooney's Run for Your Wife (as a bigamous taxi driver, with Bernard Cribbins as his "cover" and apologist) in 1983; and Sir John Vanbrugh's The Relapse at Chichester in 1986, as the hilarious chatterbox Lord Foppington.
  • (2) The data are consistent with there being two functionally distinct types of anti-idiotype antibody: those that form predominantly intra-Ig bridges, with each antibody Fab being linked to an Fab on one target molecule ("monogamous" binding) and not favoring modulation; and those that form predominantly inter-Ig bridges ("bigamous" binding) and favor modulation.

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