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Bides vs Tides - What's the difference?

bides | tides |

As a verb bides

is third-person singular of bide.

As a noun tides is

plural of lang=en.

bides

English

Verb

(head)
  • (bide)

    • Anagrams

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    bide

    English

    Verb

  • (transitive, chiefly, dialectal) To bear; to endure; to tolerate.
  • (intransitive, archaic, or, dialectal) To dwell or reside in a location; to abide.
  • * Milton
    • All knees to thee shall bow of them that bide / In heaven or earth, or under earth, in hell.
  • (intransitive, archaic, or, dialectal) To wait; to be in expectation; to stay; to remain.
  • (archaic) To wait for; to await.

    • Quotations

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    Usage notes

    * The verb has been replaced by (abide) in Standard English for almost all its uses, and is now rarely found outside the expression (term, bide one's time).

    Derived terms

    * bide one's time * abide

    Related terms

    * bid * faith * fidelity

    tides

    English

    Noun

    (head)
    • "Yet the tides' of war do not wait, and General Lee had come to the capital to try and shape their future course." - [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0618485384&id=nSnw3YPGN-0C&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=%22tides+of+war%22&sig=hL4OXMUcIxma5nAXSP7YuJaEQsQ] '''Stephen W Sears''', 2004, ' Gettysburg

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