👉 In the context of linguistics and semantics, a semiorbiculate is a type of verb that has two inflectional forms, one in the past tense and the other in the present tense. This is an irregular form of the verb "to be," which means it can take on multiple meanings depending on the word order or grammatical context. For example, the past tense of the verb "be" (like "am" or "is") has two forms: "was" and