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# bide

verb (bide, bides, bided, biding)

«bide» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

(old use) To bide is to stay or live in a place; to bide your time is to wait patiently until the right moment. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bide/#m1)

### In the lessons

in old tales a character asks why someone did not bide at home, that is, did not stay at home

### Examples

- Why didn't you bide at home? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bide/#x1)
- The cat bides in the barn all winter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bide/#x2)
- Bide your time and the chance will come. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bide/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «bide» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bide/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«bide» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/bide.html) on Mova free.