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Tri vs Bi - What's the difference?

tri | bi |

As nouns the difference between tri and bi

is that tri is triathlon while bi is a type of jade disk produced in ancient China.

As an initialism TRI

is toxic Release Inventory.

As an adjective bi is

bisexual.

tri

English

Noun

  • (chiefly, attributive) triathlon
    • a tri bike
    a tri suit
    ----

    bi

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (m).

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (colloquial) Bisexual.
    • I'm hetero, but my oldest sister is bi .

    See also

    * bi-

    Etymology 2

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (bi)
  • A type of jade disk produced in ancient China.

    • See also

    * English invariant nouns English nouns with irregular plurals English two-letter words ----