(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.
Endure
Definition:
(v. i.) To continue in the same state without perishing; to last; to remain.
(v. i.) To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
(v. t.) To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to endure wind and weather.
(v. t.) To bear with patience; to suffer without opposition or without sinking under the pressure or affliction; to bear up under; to put up with; to tolerate.
(v. t.) To harden; to toughen; to make hardy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients had improved sitting balance and endurance after surgery.
(2) There was no significant correlation between mitochondrial volume and number of SO fibers following endurance exercise training.
(3) Thus it appears that a portion of the adaptation to prolonged and intense endurance training that is responsible for the higher lactate threshold in the trained state persists for a long time (greater than 85 days) after training is stopped.
(4) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
(5) Respiratory muscle endurance at a given level of load was assessed from the time of exhaustion and from the time course of the change in the power spectrum (centroid frequency) of the diaphragm electromyogram (EMG).
(6) The investigation included the measurement of heart rate, bioelectrical muscle activity of the right and left M. biceps brachii and M. deltoideus and muscular endurance at 50% MVC.
(7) First, the decrement in the maximal heart rate response to exercise (known as "chronotropic incompetence") found in the sedentary MI rat was completely reversed by endurance training.
(8) Collins later thanked the condemned man for what he said was the respect he showed toward the execution team and for the way he endured the ordeal.
(9) There were discrete linear relationships between muscle temperature and isometric endurance associated with cycling at 60% and 80% VO2max.
(10) Endurance times with the vest were 300 min (175 W) and 242-300 min (315 W).
(11) Because the changes of the arterial blood lactate (Laa) and VE coincide we defined this point as the "point of the optimal ventilatory efficiency," identical with the "O2 endurance performance limit," later called "anaerobic threshold" by Wasserman et al.
(12) Zuma, who had endured booing during Mandela's memorial service at this stadium, received a rapturous welcome as he entered to the sound of a military drumroll trailed by young, flag-waving majorettes.
(13) In multiple regression analysis of endurance capacity, the standardized regression coefficient for smoking was -0.14 for distance covered in the 12-min run and 0.10 for 16-km running time, the latter despite the low prevalence (6.9%) of regular cigarette smokers among the joggers.
(14) I think that those who go there, to Isis, they hate Russia for the conditions they have to endure to live,” Nazarov’s brother says.
(15) These results indicate that the increase in glucose storage by acute exercise is not systematically associated with an improved glucose homeostasis, suggesting that other adaptive mechanisms also contribute to the improvement of insulin sensitivity in endurance athletes.
(16) Nine mild to moderate asthmatic adults (three males, six females) and six non-asthmatics (one male, five females) underwent endurance running training three times per week for five weeks, at self selected running speeds on a motorized treadmill.
(17) But to endure a cut of £100m just after becoming the mayor and a further £23m this year has been daunting.
(18) Further, to study the effect of endurance training on this response, animals from each age group underwent ten weeks of treadmill running at 75% of their functional capacity.
(19) Already much work has been done to re-establish enduring components for Labour's electoral success: clarity of strategy, effective rebuttal, and superior field organisation with our network of community organisers.
(20) As expected, preexercise values of non-trained subjects revealed a much higher insulin response to glucose, and a lower glucose storage and lipid oxidation compared to results obtained in endurance trained individuals.