What is the second meaning of a single ampersand in C#?

Question

I have used the single ampersand (&) in C# to mean \"check the second conditional statement even if the first is false\".

But the

Answer 1

The ampersand represents a bitwise AND operation. A bitwise operator returns the result of a comparison between each corresponding bit in the two operands.

For example, if x is 0110 and y is 1010, then a bitwise AND of x and y (x & y) results in 0010.