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# bide

«bide» in Mova's school dictionary: **to stay or live in a place; to bide your time is to wait…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (bide, bides, bided, biding)

### meaning for a pupil

(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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bide/#m1)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bide/#x1)
- The cat bides in the barn all winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bide/#x2)
- Bide your time and the chance will come. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bide/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bide» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bide/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.