(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.
Dwell
Definition:
(v. i.) To delay; to linger.
(v. i.) To abide; to remain; to continue.
(v. i.) To abide as a permanent resident, or for a time; to live in a place; to reside.
(v. t.) To inhabit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nango's dwellings are built on skis so can be pulled around the beach, and have a glass roof to view the northern lights.
(2) Further, they dwell on the management of these infections and illustrate the properties, toxic effects and other side effects of the antibiotics commonly used in therapy and for the prevention of complications.
(3) Current income, highest income, occupation, type of dwelling, years of education, and crowding did not enter the stepwise regression model at alpha = .10.
(4) A policy of selective antibiotic prophylaxis is justified and in high risk patients with in-dwelling catheters single dose prophylaxis is highly effective.
(5) The dwell-time histogram in each substate was well fitted with a single-exponential function.
(6) The frequency of mites in dust from farmers' homes was three times higher and that of pyroglyphids ten times higher than in other dwellings.
(7) The typical synanthropic species Glycyphagus domesticus is totally absent from dwellings but occurs in 90% of honey-bee hives.
(8) Absence of a functioning velocity storage network in bottom-dwelling teleosts (as in Amphibia) may be related to the sporadic, slow locomotion of these species and the resulting small requirements for continuous gaze stabilization during self-motion at higher velocities.
(9) The sample comprised 101 community-dwelling older adults aged 57 to 87.
(10) Republicans were under pressure not to dwell on Clinton’s use of a private email server as too zealous an attack could come off as partisan.
(11) Approximately 1,056 dwellings were located in the Oberon Shire by the interviewers; household interviews were obtained from 789 of them.
(12) A significant seasonal variation of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels was noted in elderly community-dwelling subjects.
(13) After displaying the results concerning arrhythmias of 24 hr Holter electrocardiograms recorded in 207 randomized patients who had undergone valvular replacement 15 days before, the authors dwell upon the use of Holter electrocardiography in 82 valvular patients after pharmacological cardioversion and show that major arrhythmias get a clear reduction thanks to rehabilitation.
(14) Bucknall, 53, is reluctant to dwell on mistakes that have been made, but admits "it would be odd if after 10 years, we hadn't learned a lot".
(15) Second-order factor analyses yielded two comparable sets of three second-order factors: Social Activities and Self-Care Ability, whereas the third factor connected high welfare with age-segregated dwelling (and low welfare with age-integration).
(16) The number of years spend in dwellings without central heating was significantly inversely associated with the level of FEV1 and MMEF, and significantly directly associated with closing capacity in per cent of TLC, CC%.
(17) A greater loss of proteins overnight was due to longer dwell time as the mean rate of loss was similar for all exchanges.
(18) Additional studies are highly desirable to confirm or refute these findings, which, if valid, mean increasing lung cancer hazards caused by a decrease in ventilation in future energy saving unless special measures are undertaken to reduce radon daughters in dwellings.
(19) We investigated whether day to day changes in the transport characteristics of the peritoneal membrane to macromolecules in patients treated with CAPD, were related to the levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in the effluent of an overnight dwell.
(20) Using the assumption that prolonged dwell time indicates intensive processing of visual data, a model was developed for nodule detection that includes four steps: orientation, scanning, pattern recognition and decision-making.