(v. t.) To remain; to continue or be permanent in a place or state; to continue to be.
(v. t.) To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo.
(v. t.) To wait for; as, I bide my time. See Abide.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Eurosceptics are polite and disciplined for the moment, but they are simply biding their time.
(2) For a while he stayed put, biding his time, anxious that when the move came (and nobody doubted there would be a move) it would be the right one.
(3) If Kim has indeed been set aside – and nobody outside Pyongyang really knows – then whoever has taken power is not seeking the limelight,” said John Everard, former UK ambassador to Pyongyang.“The visits to factories and military units that Kim frequently conducted have not been taken over by anyone else; they have simply stopped.” “As a woman in a very male-dominated society, the theory goes, she might be reluctant to push herself forward publicly straight away, preferring instead to bide her time while governing from behind the scenes.” However, Everard says though it is “not impossible” that Kim Yo-jong has stepped up to the leadership, “it is as hard to disprove this theory as it is to find anything to support it”.
(4) Insiders, however, said the governing coalition appeared to be biding time.
(5) The data suggest that the physical nature of the interaction is the same for both types of biding sites, and that the differences in affinity between different binding sites must be explained in terms of tertiary structure.
(6) But experts on the city's politics believe he may simply be biding his time.
(7) This method consist of four steps: (a) biding of antigens to a nitrocellulose membrane (NC); (b) blocking of free sites of the NC; (c) incubation in specific primary antibody; (d) detection of primary antibody reactivity by color development using second antibody coupled to textile dyes.
(8) Light absorption spectra of bilirubin-albumin showed little change on addition of ceftriaxone, in agreement with the competitive biding mechanism.
(9) He had close and affectionate relations with the monarchs, as revealed in one poem entitled Lines for January 20th death of his father, George V. The poem reads: "Beyond the river-side; The frozen fields stretch wide; To where the beech-clumps bide; Leafless and still; In snow upon the hill; I think of One who died."
(10) Secured by the Scottish parliament's first ever absolute majority for a single party, Salmond is biding his time.
(11) Though, on the other hand, the hysteria about Russia in the US has surprised me as well.” Russian officials are now biding their time until the scandal dies down.
(12) This was a mature collection for sass & bide, neatly styled (a collaboration between Heidi Middleton, Sarah-Jane Clarke and renowned stylist Vanessa Traina) with its polished blazers, colour-blocked ensembles and embellished mini-dresses.
(13) The plotters are biding their time, not vanquished.
(14) This seems to be due to the presence in human serum of biding factors which are responsible for the rapid clearance of acidic isoferritins from the circulation.
(15) Tuesday saw the return of sass & bide, who gathered a star-studded front row including Iggy Azalea, Zoe Kravitz and Poppy Delevingne, after a six-year hiatus.
(16) Despite Musharraf's willingness to take risks, he avoided coming back to Pakistan while the threat of arrest hung over him, preferring instead to bide his time in London and Dubai.
(17) This has to be it – there can be no biding one’s time on the bench until another call comes because that is going to be a fundamental destabilisation,” MacTiernan told reporters.
(18) You bide your time and wait for your child to be delivered into your care, when you hope you can go home and work on becoming a family.
(19) The RAC, owned by private equity firm Carlyle, has been biding its time with management keen for the dust to settle on the referendum and to see the latest figures from rival AA – which reports its half-year figures on Tuesday.
(20) All of the genes are preceded by a highly conserved region which includes the likely promoter and transcriptional regulator sites as well as the ribosome-biding site, and are followed within a short but variable distance by a sequence with the characteristics of a transcription termination or attenuation signal.
Bidet
Definition:
(n.) A small horse formerly allowed to each trooper or dragoon for carrying his baggage.
(n.) A kind of bath tub for sitting baths; a sitz bath.
Example Sentences:
(1) And celebrating its 100th birthday yesterday, the Paris underground - for many foreigners as much a part of the French experience as baguettes, bidets and Bordeaux wine - could make a fair claim to being the world's most loved, most efficient and least expensive city transport system.