bide

/baid/

Thân thiện

You can bide your time in the cozy library.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To wait for a suitable opportunity or time: To remain in a state of readiness or expectation, often with patience, until the right moment arrives.
   • To stay or continue in a place or condition: To dwell or remain, often for a period of time.

Examples of Usage

• Verb:
  • He decided to bide his time before making a career move. (He chose to wait patiently for the right moment.)
  • She bided in the small village for several years. (She stayed in the small village for several years.)

Advanced Usage

• "to bide one's time": To wait patiently for a favorable opportunity.
  • The team is biding its time, waiting for the opponent to make a mistake.

Variants and Related Words

• Bode (verb, archaic): A past tense of 'bide', meaning to remain or dwell. It is now more commonly used in the phrase "bode well/ill" (to be a sign of good or bad things to come), which is a different meaning.
  • The dark clouds boded ill for our picnic.

Synonyms

• Wait: To stay in place in expectation of something.
• Stay: To continue to be in a place.
• Remain: To continue to exist or stay in the same state.
• Dwell: To live or reside in a place (more formal/literary).

Related Phrasal Verbs

(Note: 'Bide' is not commonly used to form standard phrasal verbs. Its primary phrasal usage is the fixed idiom "bide one's time".)

Related Idioms

• Bide one's time: To wait patiently for the right moment to act.
  • He wasn't ready to reveal his plan; he was just biding his time.

Học thuật

Verb

1. dwell
   • You can stay with me while you are in town
   • stay a bit longer--the day is still young

Từ đồng nghĩa

• abide
• stay